The Dayton (OH) Performing Arts Alliance (DPAA), formed from the 2012 merger of the Dayton Philharmonic, Dayton Ballet, and Dayton Opera, has a new president and CEO in Patrick J. Nugent. He succeeds interim CEO Patricia McDonald, who took over … » Read

The Office of Arts and Culture in Dallas is seeking new nonprofit management for “Classical 101” WRR Dallas (101.1). While the city “greatly values the classical music broadcasts and arts-organization support that Classical WRR … » Read

The Australia Council for the Arts, working collaboratively with the National Arts Council Singapore, has released In Real Life: Mapping Digital Cultural Engagement in the First Decades of the 21 st Century . The new report analyzes the ways in … » Read

Matthew Loden, CEO of the Toronto Symphony since 2018, is to exit to return to Texas and become dean of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as of October 1. He succeeds  Robert Yekovich, who exits after 18 years in the job. … » Read

Georgiana Young is to succeed Lee Bell as senior director of programming for the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, FL, as of August 23. Bell steps down after 24 years and numerous innovations at the Center, … » Read

Sheldon Soffer, who ran his eponymous artist management firm from 1960 until his retirement in 1999, died at his summer home in Fort Myers, FL, on June 23, 2021. He was 93, according to his nephew and caretaker, Mitchell Sikora, and died with his … » Read

Opera, claims Oliver Mears, the Royal Opera House’s director of opera, is the perfect means of spreading a pandemic. Social distancing is well-nigh impossible with musicians jammed into tight quarters in orchestra pits, sellout audiences … » Read

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is presenting a full calendar of summer events featuring Opera Saratoga as well as its traditional summer resident companies—the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE— The rebirth of France’s premier opera festival after a barren, Covid-blighted 2020 felt like a joyous act of defiance. Not only has Artistic Director Pierre Audi programmed a record number of operas (nine in all, if … » Read

Douglas (Doug) Sheldon, who re-established his career with a firm under his under own name in December 2020 , just months before the pandemic struck, has signed Vadim Repin to Sheldon Artists LLC. Repin joins Anne-Sophie Mutter and Simone Lamsma … » Read