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

Simon Rattle has been an unrelenting critic of Brexit from the moment Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. He has characterized it as a “terrible mistake” that has turned the U.K. into a  "self-built cultural jail," … » Read

Every three years since 1976 Cremona has hosted the Ente Triennale Internazionale Strumenti Ad Arco (International Triennial Body of Stringed Instruments), the world’s premiere violin making competition. Master luthiers from around the … » Read

Norway’s Bergen International Festival, a four- to five-day multi-genre annual event, has “terminated the contract” of its director of nine years, Anders Beyer. The move signals his immediate resignation, although he will … » Read

LOS ANGELES – “Breathe easy” reads the Los Angeles Opera’s program book. The reference is to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s new air filtration system, which earned the first UL “healthy building” rating … » Read

The Leeds International Piano Competition capped its triennial edition September 18 by awarding first prize to Alim Beisembayev, a 23-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan. He wins £25,000, recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre, … » Read

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has named Natasha Baldwin to the newly created position of Executive VP, Classics and Screen. The London-based Baldwin will be responsible for leading the company’s global classical and screen … » Read