How to unwrap a musical package as deep, layered, and startlingly resonant as Fire Shut Up in My Bones , the work that opened the Metropolitan Opera Monday night after 18 months of pandemic-induced silence? The sheer substance of Terence … » Read

Many current and former staff members are describing London’s Barbican Center as being in “freefall” in the wake of Barbican Stories , an exposé of as many as 100 cases of discrimination reported by employees. Describing … » Read

On Oct. 9, after 579 days of pandemic-induced silence, the sound of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will once again resonate within the walls of Walt Disney Concert Hall. Gustavo Dudamel will take the podium for a homecoming concert & gala … » Read

Arabella Arts, the young agency  founded earlier this year by Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully, both formerly of Columbia Artists, has added two conductors to its ever growing roster: American  Jeri Lynne Johnson and Israeli-born … » Read

"Keep it pretty, keep it shallow, keep it moving" is the stated credo of drag artist Justin Vivian Bond at the start of Only an Octave Apart , a cabaret collaboration with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn … » Read

After a national search, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance has named Patricia Wilson Aden as its new president and CEO as of January 2022. She will succeed Priscilla M. Luce, who has been in the role since the previous leader, Maud Lyon, … » Read

A $10mn gift to Lincoln Center from David Rubenstein will support expanded arts and civic engagement activities in the decade-old Atrium that bears his name. Designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien and located between 62 nd and 63 rd Streets … » Read

More movement at the Portland (OR) Opera. It started when Priti Gandhi was named artistic director in July, a new role assuming some of the duties of Clare Burovac, who is now with the New Orleans Opera. The following month, George Manahan … » Read

Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will continue his partnership with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra through 2027-28, bringing his music directorship of the orchestra to two full decades. The agreement extends his current contract by six years. … » Read

LONDON--“All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay.” The words, from W.B. Yeats’s poem Lapis Lazuli , were borrowed by Michael Tippett to conclude his audacious first opera The Midsummer … » Read