Brown University and the New York-based architectural firm REX have unveiled designs for the university’s new 94,500-square-foot performing arts center,  to be located on the former site of the 19 th -century Sharpe House, moved to … » Read

For its 40 th -anniversary season, the Atlanta Opera will mount four operas on its mainstage, the 2,750-seat Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center (named for Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta). Its two-opera “Discovery” series will use … » Read

LOS ANGELES—A signature of Tan Dun’s most successful compositions is his gift for mixing putatively disparate elements into powerfully original amalgams. To make that happen means being able to take serious risks—and the premise … » Read

In an unusual turn of events, the Polar Music Prize this year is awarded to three entities: a pop artist, classical artist, and a foundation dedicated to bringing arts education to underserved children around the world. Each receives one million … » Read

CARDIFF—As Welsh National Opera awaits the arrival of Aidan Lang from Seattle Opera as its new general director, outgoing incumbent David Pountney’s farewell season continues with the second work in his Verdi trilogy, a new production … » Read

American-Israeli conductor Steven Sloane is the new music director designate of the Jerusalem Symphony, taking the full job in 2020/21 when he succeeds Frederic Chaslin, who exits after eight years. In September, Sloane, 60, was named principal … » Read

Countertenor David Daniels, 52, and husband Scott Walters, 36, appeared in criminal court in Harris County, TX, on Monday, facing charges of sexually assaulting a Rice University student in 2010. They were arrested two weeks ago in Ann Arbor, MI, … » Read

PHILADELPHIA-- It may have taken 28 years to reach the U.S., but Robert Carsen’s near-definitive staging of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has finally made landfall at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, giving … » Read

David Afkham [pictured], principal conductor of the National Orchestra of Spain (ONE) since 2015, has been named chief conductor and artistic director of the orchestra and choir (OCNE), moving up from eight weeks of availability per season to 15. … » Read

London’s cup is suddenly running over with major new music venues. The plans for the Center for Music in the City of London, located at the Barbican Center, were no sooner  unveiled than Anthony Wilkinson, founder and director of the … » Read