It’s best not to look too closely at the plots of classical ballets. Rather than try to reason through the unrequited relationships, fairies, and blurred lines between animals and humans, it’s better to just let the stories be what … » Read

Each season the more than 80 permanent opera houses in Germany produce between seven and eight thousand performances, which is about one third of the world’s total. Italy, by contrast, presents fewer than two thousand. Such abundance is … » Read

With funding from the Mellon Foundation, the Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has hired its first full-time composer in residence. Joel Thompson, whose first opera, The Snowy Day (2021) was commissioned and premiered by HGO, has signed on with the … » Read

The growing enthusiasm for new operas too often collides with what the San Francisco Chronicle’ s Joshua Kosman has identified as the “second production” problem. As he explains it, the introduction of a new work, often amid … » Read

PARIS (AFP) – The director of dance at the Paris Opera, Aurelie Dupont, who faced criticism in the past over her leadership, announced her surprise resignation on Thursday. The 49-year-old ex-star dancer said she was devoting herself to new … » Read

The 1714 “da Vinci, ex-Seidel” Strad, anticipated to fetch  “up to $20 million” at auction by Tarisio, finally sold last week for 12.29 million euros, about $15.34 million, the second highest amount ever fetched for a … » Read

LONDON--With its quaint local color and swirling cinematic dramaturgy, The Adventures of Mr. Broucek is the trickiest of Janácek’s operas to pull off. Get it wrong and it comes across as a rambling bit of folkish whimsy, or worse, an … » Read

Barring a last-minute resolution, this weeks rounds of the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which are performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, will not be broadcast on Dallas’s classical radio station, WRR-FM. The local … » Read

For 75 years, the Ojai Music Festival, located in the Ojai Valley north of Los Angeles, has presented a three-day weekend packed full of performances curated by a music director chosen for a one-year term. More often than not, an individual has … » Read

Beginning in October 2022 and extending through June 2023, the Washington Performing Arts next season will explore the theme of The World in Our City . With more than 150 embassies and diplomatic representatives in the city, noted President & … » Read