Allan Ulrich, San Francisco-based arts critic admired for his erudite opinions, died on July 22 at the age of 78. The cause was cancer. Born in New York, raised in Montreal, Ulrich was an active Bay Area free-lancer before joining the staff of … » Read

LENOX, MA -- July 20, 2019, and as much of America melts in an unprecedented heatwave, at Tanglewood the thermometer hits 100 degrees. Spare a thought, therefore, for Renée Fleming, Rod Gilfry, Andris Nelsons, and the valiant musicians of … » Read

William Graziosi [pictured], whose appointment as general manager of Teatro Regio in April of 2018 prompted Gianandrea Noseda to resign after 11 years as music director, has fallen out of favor. Pending approval by the Italian Culture Minister, … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will open its 2019-20 season on September 14 not with a gala starring Renée Fleming, as originally announced, but with a free concert programmed to preview the coming season. The gala, the BSO’s … » Read

The death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police is an all-too-common occurrence in today’s America. Blue , a new opera by Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson, examines such a tragedy, with a … » Read

The Midsummer Ball, the largest arts fundraiser in Western Canada, has netted more than $1.27m to support the Banff Center’s arts programs, which offer education, mentorship, and inspiration to both emerging and established artists. … » Read

Choral singing enhances the quality of individual lives, especially of those 65 and over, and strengthens community ties. These are the key takeaways from The Chorus Impact Study: Singing for a Lifetime , a research project completed by Grunwald … » Read

AIX-EN-PROVENCE (FR)--It features an Israeli prime minister, Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, a hit squad, and a Shin Beth spy chief. But this is not another story on the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict but an opera with, … » Read

Hugh Southern, British-born deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1982-89, then NEA acting chair (briefly) then Met Opera general manager (even more briefly), died on July 15 in Leesburg, VA. He was 87; his wife reports the … » Read

Music critic Anne Midgette is weary of the hand wringing over the latest demise of a classical music ensemble. What would happen, she asks, “If one-tenth of the energy people expend on reacting to news such as this was expended on actually … » Read