The Sphinx Organization has received $3 million from the Fund II Foundation, the largest grant in its history. Sphinx President and Artistic Director Afa S. Dworkin predicts the monies will bolster its leadership and development programs to … » Read

The Santa Fe Opera announced its 2020 season today, live-streaming its press conference on Facebook. General Director Robert K. Meya led the proceedings, with Board President Susan G. Marineau on hand, as well as Dramaturg Cori Ellison , and … » Read

Two veteran faculty members at the Curtis Institute of Music—Mikael Eliasen [pictured] and Aaron Rosand—are set to retire at the conclusion of the current academic year. Eliasen, the Hirsig Family Chair of Vocal Studies and artistic … » Read

There’s good news from Down Under. Opera Australia (OA) finished the 2018 season with a $342,667 (Australian dollars) operating surplus on gross receipts of $115m. This represents a significant turnaround from 2017, when OA had an operating … » Read

MILAN—On Monday, Luca Formenton, head of Italian publisher Saggiatore, stood before a packed conference room to announce the formation of a new orchestra, LaFil. It can hardly be a coincidence that Daniele Gatti, with ample free time on his … » Read

The Lucerne Festival, est. 1938, is making some key changes. As of 2020 it will abolish the offshoots of its annual six-week-long summer festival: the Easter Festival (the last one ran April 6-14) and the Piano Festival (scheduled for November … » Read

Thrill seekers looking to witness Plácido Domingo etch yet another notch in his record-setting belt should get themselves to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles by May 19, when El Gato Mont é s closes. The title character … » Read

Among the many invisible personnel that make a Metropolitan Opera performance run smoothly, the prompter is essential. More than 200 times a season, Carol Isaac or one of seven other prompters will enter a little box through the orchestra pit, … » Read

Safe to say, Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa is having a very good year. Today, the Metropolitan Opera announced her as the winner of the 14th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award, a $50,000 prize to “extraordinarily gifted singers with … » Read

TULSA, Oklahoma--If ever proof was needed that opera can still surprise, provoke and even have something to say, the Act One Finale of Opera Tulsa’s Don Giovanni is it. Updated to America (ish) and sometime in the 1950s (ish)—neither … » Read