The New Jersey Performing Arts Center has received a $20 million gift to its endowment, a bequest from the late Betty Wold Johnson, matriarch of the Johnson & Johnson family and fortune. The monies cap her long history of generosity to NJPAC, … » Read

In November the Opéra-Comique began offering new productions of traditional repertoire for online viewing only. First up was Rameau’s  Hippolyte et Aricie.   On Jan. 19 came a second classic from the French Baroque, … » Read

The Colorado Symphony, whose annual pre-pandemic budget was about $14 million, is the recipient of an anonymous $2 million gift that, it reports, will be used to continue paying staff and musicians through June of 2021, as well as covering … » Read

No one would ever describe orchestras and opera companies as nimble institutions. Seasons are planned years in advance, due in equal part to traditional practices and the need to pin down scheduling commitments from star talent. “It strikes … » Read

After a $90mn transformation, the 1931 Art Deco Warner Grand Theater in downtown Milwaukee is set to make its debut on Feb. 6 as the Bradley Symphony Center, the new home of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO). The project, which survived … » Read

Julia Noulin-Mérat, co-artistic director of Boston’s artist-led Guerilla Opera, is the new general director and CEO of Opera Columbus . She succeeds Peggy Kriha Dye, who left after six years to become general director and CEO of … » Read

The heightened awareness of racism, of which opera companies and orchestras have long been accused, has led to a huge movement among arts groups to appoint diversity and inclusion officers or create special task forces to address the issue. The … » Read

The latest crop of contemporary music recordings is striking for its breadth, spanning politically tinged messages, soothing sounds, and exotic textures from far corners of the globe. Below are recordings of current repertoire issued between late … » Read

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) has selected Andreas Delfs as its new music director. He will succeed Ward Stare, who exits at the end of this, his final season. A native of Flensburg, Germany, Delfs was for 12 years music director of … » Read

The refusal of the Franz Hofmann and Sophie Hagemann Foundation to pay for a violin taken from Jewish music dealer Felix Hildesheimer by the Nazis in 1939 is threatening the efficacy of Germany’s advisory group on the return of cultural … » Read