NEW YORK (AP) — It’s less than a 40-minute walk uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House from where Heartbeat Opera got its humble start in a yoga studio. But for Louisa Proske, it’s been an artistic journey years in the making. … » Read

See also Part I.  In the years since its founding in 2016, Tippet Rise has expanded in myriad ways—new sculpture, additional housing, dining facilities, acreage, livestock, and solar panels to power it all. The attention to detail is … » Read

The process of renewal at the Ravinia Festival is set to continue with the $38 million renovation of the Martin Theatre, the last original structure from the 1904 opening of the 36-acre wooded park in Highland Park. Characterizing the building as … » Read

One of Deborah Sandler Kemper’s last acts as CEO and general director of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City (LOKC) may well prove to be the most important achievement of her tenure. For the state’s FY 2025 budget, a year in which the … » Read

Six weeks ago Dawn Airey, a TV industry veteran, succeeded Nicholas Serota as chair of Arts Council England. The agency, which annually grants more than £650m of public and lottery money to arts organizations and individuals, has been … » Read

Last week’s performances of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls at David Geffen Hall marked the first time the New York Philharmonic had offered the piece since its 2002 world premiere. The reasons for its near quarter-century … » Read

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people joined outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday evening to protest President Donald Trump’s plans for the facility, lending their voices to a chorus of organizations and … » Read

Like the colleagues in the Boston Symphony , National Symphony , and the San Francisco Opera orchestra s, the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) have reached a new collective bargaining agreement. The Chicagoans have ratified … » Read

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has received an anonymous gift of $60 million, the largest in its history, to underwrite a five-year preservation, cataloguing, and digitization effort to increase public access to over 15 … » Read

With the help of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, the San Francisco Opera and its orchestra have reached a tentative agreement, effective August 1 of this year to July 31, 2030, and pending ratification by the musicians. Details are not yet … » Read