A decade ago, the researchers at the Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) National Center for Arts Research developed the Arts Vibrancy Index to contextualize data being gathered—e.g., financial performance, attendance patterns, … » Read

The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) will have a new executive as of January 26. She is Melissa Greenblatt, recently in the same post with the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), a near two-decade-long affiliation. At … » Read

The pressure is mounting for the San Francisco Ballet to withdraw from its Kennedy Center dates, May 27-31.  An opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle last fall called for a pull out and a new petition on Change.Org does as well. … » Read

The Washington National Opera, facing declining ticket sales in its Kennedy Center home since DT took it over last February, will exit the venue, a move it  hinted at several months ago. WNO has secured new leases elsewhere but so far … » Read

Less than three weeks after threatening legal action against a young violinist for breaching a confidentiality agreement, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) executed a complete about face. On Jan. 6, the VSO issued a full-throated public … » Read

Over the past quarter century, Irwin Jacobs and his late wife Joan donated more than $100 million to the San Diego Symphony. Their name adorns the orchestra’s renovated downtown concert hall as a proper acknowledgement of their essential … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — Lisette Oropesa impresses Peter Gelb as more than a singer. “She reminds me a little bit of Beverly Sills,” the Metropolitan Opera general manager said. “She seems to have that kind of intellectual … » Read

The Seattle Opera has announced a number of promotions, the most recent of which is Blaine Inafuku, from associate director to director of artistic administration and planning. He succeeds Aren Der Hacopian, who stepped down last month after 18 … » Read

Acclaimed violinist Randall Goosby has widened his relationship with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and been named CSO Community Artist-in-Residence, a three-year assignment. The newly created position, an expanded version of his  2024-25 … » Read

LONDON—Alfred Brendel’s passing in 2025 robbed the world of one of the great 20th-century pianists and a truly original creative artist who impacted the careers of contemporaries and students alike. Czech-born in 1931, though mostly … » Read