Donald Trump has nominated Mary Anne Carter, a former chief policy adviser to Florida Governor (and U.S. Senate candidate) Rick Scott to be chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Aside from her 18-month tenure as the NEA’s … » Read

PARIS —Back in 2005, Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa [pictured]—the recent Marguerite de Valois in the Paris Opera’s Les Hugenots --weighed 210 pounds. Now she weighs just 123.   "That's a lot to lose. It took five … » Read

LOS ANGELES — Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, a prolific player who provided his jazz sound to records across a vast range of styles and won two Grammys, has died at age 49, his manager said Saturday. Hargrove died in New York on Friday of cardiac … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony musicians have agreed to extend the terms of their current contract, which expired September 9, through January 15. The news arrives after the two sides met on Tuesday; prior to that time, the players had rejected the idea … » Read

In a remarkable cri de coeur published in The Guardian , American composer John Luther Adams laments the current state of the world. “I used to be a short-term pessimist and a long-term optimist,” writes the winner of the 2014 … » Read

For the past 15 years, Andreas Mitisek, Long Beach Opera’s (LBO) artistic and general director, has positioned his company on the cutting edge of contemporary opera. “I’m not interested in museum art,” he tells the Long … » Read

The Syrian diaspora has led many professional musicians to new homes throughout Europe. Through the efforts of Raed Jazbeh, who arrived in Germany in 2013, they have found a musical home in the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO). Jazbeh … » Read

Not every singer can boast having created leading roles in world premieres by John Adams and Kaija Saariaho by the age of 31, but bass-baritone Davóne Tines isn’t your average opera star. A Harvard graduate and the recipient of … » Read

Meg Booth, director of dance programming at the Kennedy Center, is to be CEO of Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), effective December 1. She succeeds Leslie Nelson who has been serving as interim since June Christensen retired … » Read

The Hungarian State Opera’s current residency in New York is quite an undertaking. Over the course of two weeks, 350 singers, dancers, and musicians will present a wealth of opera, ballet and concert performances, with the opera program … » Read