Anyone seeking evidence of the affirming power of music need look no further than the number of musicians who continue to play for John Eliot Gardiner, despite past instances of his abusive behavior. In the words of Marten Root, a 68-year-old … » Read

Greek conductor Elisa Gogou is to become general music director of the Lower Bavaria State Theater in 2026, succeeding Basil Coleman. Gogou, 50, has been serving as 1 st Kapellmeister and Deputy General Music Director at the Anhaltisches Theater … » Read

Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP) has dramatically expanded the number of institutions—from 50 to 200—benefitting from its Digital Accelerator Program, which provides funding and management training to improve essential digital … » Read

After more than a year, the Cincinnati Ballet has named a new permanent artistic director, former principal dancer Cervilio Miguel Amador, interim artistic director since Jodie Gates’s abrupt departure in September 2023 after just 14 … » Read

Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (OCNE) has named Kent Nagano to succeed David Afkham as its chief conductor and artistic director ( director titular y artístico ) as of September 2026, when Afkham, in the job seven years, makes … » Read

Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou’s December 12 recital, at the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room, lasted just 75 intermission-less minutes but was so thoroughly satisfying that it felt like the most sumptuous of feasts. The … » Read

Recent New York appearances by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra offered Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s classical music critic, an opportunity to compare and contrast the two ensembles and their lustrous conductors. … » Read

Arlene Croce, who established a reputation as both the most revered and most feared dance critic at The New Yorker from 1973 to 1996, died on Dec. 16 in Johnston, R.I. “No one has ever described dance in the movies the way she does,” … » Read

The third year of the partnership between San Francisco Ballet (SFB) and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAM) will yield a large-scale curtain drop for the War Memorial Opera House stage, commissioned from Bay Area artist Ranu Mukherjee, Dean … » Read

LONDON—The late Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024) achieved household name status as an avuncular figurehead for the Last Nights of the Proms over several decades. Known for his wit as well as his craft, from 1989 to 2000 he was chief conductor … » Read