Bloomberg Philanthropies, having already increased its historic support of arts and culture organizations during the pandemic, has devised a new $30 million Digital Accelerator Program to support technical infrastructure among a select group of … » Read

The Toronto City Opera (TCO) has reached an agreement with the Rossini Opera Festival to bring the music of Gioachino Rossini to the Canadian city during the 2021-22 season. Held annually since 1980 for two weeks in August in Pesaro, … » Read

SANTA FE--The new production of  The Marriage of Figaro , seen on July 23, takes its cue from the polymathic talents of Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais, the French author of the opera’s literary source. In addition to writing plays, his … » Read

Perhaps feeling liberated by his imminent relocation to Munich and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2023, Simon Rattle told an interviewer for Radio Times that he has always dodged the opportunity to conduct Last Night of the Proms. … » Read

SANTA FE--Among the nation’s opera companies that are cautiously coming back, the Santa Fe Opera is the first major one to launch a season that looks pretty close to normal. In addition to the world premiere of John Corigliano and Marc … » Read

One year ago, the Nashville Symphony announced that it was putting its staff and musicians on furlough through July 31, 2021 . Even Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero wasn’t spared.  At the time, the move seemed drastic; would the … » Read

Perhaps it’s because the school has a dancer at its helm rather than a musician, but leadership in the flagship music division of Juilliard is looking very different than it did when Joseph Polisi left as president three years ago. With the … » Read

The pandemic forced the Opera Festival of Chicago (OFC) to suspend its inaugural season a year ago, but the fledgling company has planned an ambitious slate of performances for this July and August. Committed to programming Italian works rarely … » Read

The Williamstown(MA) Theater Festival’s recent efforts to present Row , a musical by composer-lyricist Dawn Landes and book writer Daniel Goldstein, offers object lessons on the perils of performing out-of-doors in the rainy season and … » Read

The long overdue efforts by orchestras and other classical music presenters to diversify their programming often run into difficulties identifying appropriate repertoire. Many works by Black composers remain unpublished, so finding a score, much … » Read