The Trump administration’s proposed 2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for defense spending, a 44 percent increase over last year’s figure. If the president has his way, the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities as well … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Approaching the final months of his 20-year tenure as Los Angeles Opera’s music director, James Conlon dearly wanted to conduct Verdi’s Falstaff one more time. His first professional conducting gig was Falstaff , and … » Read

An investigation of alleged embezzlement, fraud, and forgery has been underway for over a year at Naples’ Teatro San Carlo. Media reports name a number of the company’s administrators as well as high-profile artists such as tenor … » Read

Last week, a federal jury ruled that Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster had an illegal monopoly in the U.S. ticketing and amphitheater markets. Every claim by the plaintiffs was affirmed: That Ticketmaster relied on … » Read

The novelty at this year’s Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival has been the first engagement of an orchestra in residence. Such a title may seem a touch grandiose for a three-night gig, particularly since one of these was a chamber recital that … » Read

Ormsby Wilkins, music director of American Ballet Theater (ABT) since 2005 and a guest conductor for the previous five years , will retire at the conclusion of the company’s summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House. David LaMarche, a … » Read

Julian Lloyd-Webber, who recently celebrated his 75 th birthday with a concert to raise funds for Music Masters, has since announced that he been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will seek treatment. ‘'I did not want to let anyone down, … » Read

San Francisco Mayor Dan Lurie [pictured] has negotiated a series of agreements whereby cultural and scientific organizations in the city will partner with their Chinese counterparts in Shanghai. The most recent partnership, announced on April 19, … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra’s (TCO) 2026–27 season marks the 25 th and final year of Franz Welser-Möst’s tenure as music director, making him the longest to serve in that position in TCO’s history. The works, composers, … » Read

LONDON—It has been 12 years since British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber put his cello back in its case for the last time, a herniated disc in his neck having brought a premature end to a career that had begun in 1972 with the first London … » Read