The University of Hull and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) have announced an expanded partnership on several community projects, including Strokestra, a three-year experiment using music to help people recovering from strokes. Going … » Read

Felix Mildenberger, a 28-year-old German conductor, has won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition for 2018. The competition, created in 1990 by Italian philanthropist Donatella Flick, helps young conductors gain experience working with great … » Read

LOS ANGELES – At various points during its centennial season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic is giving prime-time exposure to Fluxus, one of the most—if not the most—controversial artistic concepts of the 1960s and `70s, and … » Read

NEW YORK — Placido Domingo’s eyes watered and his voice quavered. After portraying dozens of characters over a half-century on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, he got emotional being himself. “For us, the opera … » Read

In a speech before the Association of Colleges’ annual conference in the U.K., Amanda Spielman, chief inspector for the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) recently claimed that colleges that … » Read

The centenary of the end of the first world war has been marked with an outburst of cultural activity, notably Peter Jackson’s superb film They Shall Not Grow Old , which not only colorizes war footage but has used lip readers to enable … » Read

Johann Zietsman, a former CEO of ISPA (International Society for the Performing Arts), is to be the new president and CEO of the Arsht Center in Miami. He takes over in February, succeeding John Richard, who is retiring after ten years and after … » Read

This year the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) will renew its decade-long tradition of presenting a chamber opera on the weekend following Thanksgiving. La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina , by the Florentine singer and … » Read

A recent spate of indignities might seem to suggest that the gods of travel have it in for professional string players. Cellist Amit Peled, flush from performing the Penderecki Cello Concerto No. 2 with the Warsaw Philharmonic to celebrate the … » Read

Noh theater has been fascinating the West since the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 opened up Japan and its cultural institutions. Beckett, Yeats, and Peter Brook have all been drawn to Noh. Of its 2000 or so traditional tales, … » Read