When the Metropolitan Opera announced its Met Stars Live in Concert recitals back in July 2020, the series was expected to have been done and dusted by Christmas. As it turned out, a series of cancellations and postponements, the combination of … » Read

The Biden-Harris Administration has made four appointments to senior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts. Ra Joy will become chief of staff. He has served previously as executive director for CHANGE Illinois, a nonpartisan coalition … » Read

The Minnesota Orchestra has reported an $11.7mn operating loss, the largest in its history, for the fiscal year ending on Aug. 31, 2020. This figure is almost $3mn more than the previous year’s $8.8mn loss. The increased deficit came in … » Read

Christopher Plummer, the dashing award-winning actor who played Captain von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music and at 82 became the oldest Academy Award winner in history, has died. He was 91. Plummer died Friday morning, Feb. 5, 2021, at his … » Read

Among the slew of recent choral albums and vocal recitals, many of them featuring new music, three in particular stand out for imaginative programming, virtuoso performances, and having something to say about the times in which we live. The … » Read

HarrisonParrott has announced two new signings, guitarist Sean Shibe [pictured] for worldwide management and the Baroque quartet NeverMind for general management. Shibe, formerly with Rayfield Allied in London, recently signed a multiple album … » Read

The arrival of the Biden administration has raised the hopes of America’s beleaguered performing arts community. Those with a sense of history point to the Great Depression-era Federal Theater Project (FTP) as one example of how the … » Read

Shifting entirely online for the first time, the  Sphinx Competition capped its 24th edition last weekend by awarding first prize to Samuel Abraham Vargas Teixeira, a violinist from Caracas, Venezuela. An alumni of El Sistema, the … » Read

Chicago’s Hubbard Street Dance Company has turned to one of its own, former company dancer Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, as its new artistic director. She replaces Glenn Edgerton, in the position since 2009, and takes over on March 1, 2021. … » Read

Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully, both formerly of Columbia Artists, have formed a new firm, Arabella Arts, with an initial roster of 30 artists. Almost all of them were with that now-defunct powerhouse of classical music management, where Atlas … » Read