Major changes at Opera Theater of Saint Louis include the appointments of Columbia Artists VP Damon Bristo and soprano-cum-opera-director Patricia Racette [pictured], and the exit of artistic administrator Paul Kilmer. As of September 16, Bristo … » Read

Columbia Artists is losing one of its senior managers in the opera department: VP and Artist Manager Damon Bristo is leaving after 13 years with the firm to become director of artistic administration for the Opera Theater of Saint Louis … » Read

With the exception of Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz , no operas performed at this summer's Aix Festival were as musically complex as Israeli composer Adam Maor's The Sleeping Thousand . This beguiling, multifaceted chamber opera—a … » Read

Opus 3 Artists has signed two new artists to its roster. Coming from Columbia Artists, where he was managed by Doug Sheldon, now gone from the company , is Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire [pictured], whom Opus 3 will represent in North America, … » Read

Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts finds itself in the eye of a hurricane of bad news. On July 29, Kenneth Robinson, the head of the Dr. Phillips Charities, for whom the complex is named, resigned from the center’s … » Read

Harold "Hal" Prince, a towering Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater with such groundbreaking shows as The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, Company, and Sweeney Todd and won a staggering 21 Tony Awards, has … » Read

Much in the same way the announcement of a show closing is a surefire way to prompt a last-minute surge in ticket sales, the National Philharmonic has been saved from the shutdown it announced two weeks ago by a last-minute surge in donations. … » Read

Among the plethora of operas having their world premieres by American opera companies this summer, several take on racially charged subjects. Last month Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones , based on a memoir by New York Times … » Read

Beginning Sept. 8, the power of music to unite will be put to the test in Tsinandali, Georgia, where a new music festival will bring together international solo artists such as András Schiff and Yuja Wang with the Verbier Festival … » Read

While travelers on the Baltimore Metro have been reluctant to play a piano recently installed for the public’s use in the Charles Center station, musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) are showing no such reluctance. Locked … » Read