After a year in which it defied the pandemic by presenting 40 live performances in two different outdoor venues, including a revolutionary custom-designed  circus tent , the Atlanta Opera has announced a return to its indoor venue in … » Read

Katie McGuinness will exit her post as director of artistic planning at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to join the Dallas Symphony as VP of Artistic Operations, as of the 2021-22 season. Overseeing a department of 10, she’ll report … » Read

The Los Angeles Master Chorale is among the nearly 100 L.A. arts organizations with (prepandemic) budgets of under $10 million to receive Covid-19 recovery support from the L.A. Arts Recovery Fund. The Chorale has received $1.5 million, the top … » Read

Six words from “They Still Want to Kill Us,” an aria by composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, have become a cause célèbre in certain circles. Those six words—"God bless America/God damn America”—conclude the … » Read

The recently announced merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery betokens “a new age of media consolidation,” according to WIRED magazine. “If that sounds familiar, it is. For decades before the internet, TV was dominated by the Big … » Read

Does Juilliard have a diversity problem?  Some of its students are quite convinced of it. An article in today's New York Post fans the flames. First, the background. Against the backdrop of the past year’s racial attacks, the Drama … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

“The check’s in the mail” is a refrain cash-strapped performing arts organizations are eager to hear as they await funds from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. The $16bn federal aid program,  approved by Congress … » Read

Hard on the heels of Covent Garden’s May 17 return to live performance came U.K. opera’s second big event: the May 20 re-start of Glyndebourne headed by Damiano Michieletto’s penetrating new staging of Janácek’s … » Read

The biennial Menuhin Competition concluded Saturday in Richmond, VA, naming 18-year-old violinist María Dueñas of Spain as the first-prize winner of the senior division, and 15-year-old violinist Keila Wakao of Japan (currently … » Read