Having duly established its cutting-edge bona fides, the Long Beach Opera (LBO) has unveiled what it accurately describes as “an audacious 2022 season,” its first under James Darrah,  named artistic director in February. At the … » Read

Opera Parallèle, San Francisco’s vital source of new and contemporary opera since 2007, has a new senior executive team, organized under and announced by its Founder and Artistic Director Nicole Paiemen t, who recently added General … » Read

The opening of the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in downtown Inglewood this September will represent an exemplar of architectural adaptive reuse and adds another feather in the cap of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The first permanent … » Read

The silhouette of the Hohensalzburg Fortress; Salzburg’s regional flag; and a Greek theater mask, all set against a golden background, comprise the logo for the annual five-week feast of music and theater that is the Salzburg Festival. … » Read

The Broadway remake of West Side Story, which opened in February of 2020, just one month before Covid-19 struck , announced earlier this week that it would not reopen in September. Directed by Ivo van Hove, with choreography by Anne Teresa De … » Read

Opera Australia (OA) has named a new CEO, the first woman to occupy the job, and a highly credentialled one at that. Fiona Allan, born in Australia but living in the U.K. since 2004 when she was appointed artistic director of the Wales Millennium … » Read

As it returns to live performances, the Ravinia Festival has a shiny new attraction for concertgoers—the Ravinia Music Box Experience Center. The Center’s main attraction is a 12-minute long high-tech, immersive exhibit— … » Read

The editors at London’s Telegraph Group must have been listening: When Sir Nicholas Kenyon announced his  plan to depart after nearly 25 years as managing director of the Barbican, among the reasons he stated was his desire to get back … » Read

The Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang is to be the beneficiary of the long-term loan of the 1734 “Rode” Guarneri del Gesù violin. Previously played by virtuosi such as Pierre Rode, Norbert Brainin, and Kyung Wha Chung, Frang … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Walter Yetnikoff, the rampaging, R-rated head of CBS Records who presided over blockbuster releases by Michael Jackson, Billy Joel ,and many others and otherwise devoted his life to a self-catered feast of “schmoozing, … » Read