BOLOGNA -- What is now to become of Opera di Roma? After three months of dogged fight, the Fondazione has been beheaded by a decree from the national Minister for Culture Sandro Bondi, signed April 3. The board of governors has been dissolved, … » Read

Meet the Composer and the American Music Center, two New York based organizations whose missions address the creation and dissemination of music by American composers, have announced their plan to merge into a single entity to be called New Music … » Read

The bad news, as previously reported , is that the Concert Association of Florida has filed for bankruptcy. The good news, as reported Friday on South Florida Classical Review , is that the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts has picked … » Read

RYE, New York – ISPA, the International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation, has a new CEO in Johann Zeitsman, a onetime board member (1996-’99) whose most recent position was managing director of VWV Events, a large corporate … » Read

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, ever so costly to build ($470 million, six years ago) continues to be ever so costly to maintain, with much of the burden shouldered by local tax payers. The Center already gets $7.65 million … » Read

Miami's $470 million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, opened in 2006 after years of delays and cost overruns (and, initially, without a parking facility), is in need of repair -- $5 million worth. A thunderstorm on May 20 caused a … » Read

MIAMI – The much-maligned Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center, 20 months behind schedule and $67.7 million over budget, has gotten yet another transfusion from the county, this one intended to complete construction. The Center, originally … » Read

Cindy Ornstein, chief executive of the Flint (MI) Cultural Center, is to be director of the Arts and Culture Department of Mesa, Arizona. In her new job, which she begins in July, she will oversee the seven-acre Mesa Arts Center, which has four … » Read