Florida’s arts and cultural organizations will receive $26.7mn in state funding in the 2021-22 budget year. Although the amount represents a 24 percent increase over the previous year’s grants, the total still falls well short of the … » Read

The Song Company, Australia’s self-anointed national vocal ensemble, has a busy season of Renaissance music performances ahead, notwithstanding the continuing pandemic. Plans call for both Salon concerts and Close Up recitals—intimate … » Read

Yuval Sharon’s concise deconstruction of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung is perhaps the ultimate realization of Wagner’s command: “Children, make something new,” although it probably isn’t exactly … » Read

On May 1 and 2, renowned mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves will return to Tulsa, the site of her first professional engagement, to headline "Greenwood Overcomes" marking the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The program of music by living … » Read

Olivier Mantei, managing director of the Opéra-Comique, is to be the next director of the Cité de la Musique/Philharmonie de Paris. He starts on November 1, succeeding Laurent Bayle, in the job since 2015. His term, for five years, … » Read

The experience of a group of elite young cellists at the Scandinavian Cello School in Denmark suggests that humans are not alone in missing live music during the pandemic. When cellist Jacob Shaw quit touring internationally to establish the … » Read

Enrique Márquez, who produces and books events for Harvard University’s Department of Music and administers the Fromm Music Foundation, has been appointed director of music by Interlochen Center for the Arts. He succeeds Kedrik … » Read

Paul Edward Kellogg, a leader in introducing new and unusual opera at a time when it wasn’t fashionable, died on April 28 in a hospital in his hometown of Cooperstown, NY, of natural causes. He was 84. At the height of his career, Kellogg … » Read

Theater producer Cameron MacIntosh has issued a ringing defense of his decision to cut the size of the pit orchestra in half—from 27 to 14 musicians—when The Phantom of the Opera returns to London’s West End in early June. … » Read

The Bolshoi Theater has cancelled all tours through March of 2022. The cause is the pandemic, but not its threat to the safety and well-being of company members. Rather, the cause is concern among foreign presenters that the vaccine Russia has … » Read