Aaron Rosand, famed violinist and pedagogue, died on July 9 at the age of 92. A member of the class of 1948 of the Curtis Institute, Rosand made his professional recital debut at age nine in a recital at Chicago’s Civic Opera House and … » Read

Another major artist has left Columbia Artists, this one with plans for a significant change in repertoire. Deborah Voigt has moved to the year-old, San Francisco-based Promethean Artists, with which she plans to ease off opera and concentrate … » Read

Vivian Perlis, the music historian who launched the invaluable  Oral History of American Music at Yale University, died on July 4 at the age of 91. As Libby Van Cleve writes in her  tribute article when Ms. Perlis was named Musical … » Read

ROME--For its summer stage, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses the Baths of Caracalla, a massive third-century outdoor ruin whose location away from Rome’s crowded center means it sees relatively little traffic. Mounting a production … » Read

ORANGE, FR -- When Peter Gelb took over New York's legendary Metropolitan Opera in 2006, one of his jobs was to organize a farewell for Placido Domingo. But 13 years later the indefatigable Spanish tenor is still "the king of opera," headlining … » Read

Marcus L. Overton, a passionate and colorful 54-year veteran of performing arts administration as well as an Emmy award-winning radio and TV host, died at age 75 on June 9 in San Diego, after a long battle with kidney disease.   … » Read

André Previn’s final work, Penelope , will receive its world premiere at Tanglewood in a concert staging on July 24. Based on the character from Homer’s Odyssey , as created by librettist/playwright Tom Stoppard, the piece is … » Read

TALLINN, Estonia — Tens of thousands of Estonians joined in singing folk songs Sunday on the 150th anniversary of a music festival that inspired resistance to Soviet control and later received recognition from the U.N. cultural agency. The … » Read

The differences between cultural life in Europe and the U.S. are many. One of the biggest is that most European governments fund their country’s arts organizations, often generously.  In the U.S., the richest nation in the world, … » Read

TEHRAN, Iran — Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. And perhaps surprisingly, … » Read