How to follow an act as iconic as the Radio City Hall Christmas Spectacular, complete with 36 Rockettes as backward-cascading toy soldiers, 4200-pipe mighty Wurlitzer in full cry, and accompanying orchestra in a … » Read

Fred Child, who resigned in October after a 25-year run as host of the NPR-originated program Performance Today, is moving to a different side of classical music radio. As of January 2, he is to be president and CEO of All Classical Radio, … » Read

Beginning in 2026, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will mark the 50 th anniversary of her international debut with two years of projects including new recordings, a curated Deutsche Gramophone discography, and global concerts at venues of special … » Read

Dave Stewart, co-founder with Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics [pictured], is making the case that artificial intelligence is an “unstoppable force…. Everybody should be selling or licensing their voice and their skills to these … » Read

The architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won the bid to design the new home of the Hamburg State Opera and Hamburg Ballet. Conceived as a landscape of concentric terraces, the new 45,000-square-meter (484,000+ sq. ft.) venue will be … » Read

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has named Christina Vassallo as its new executive director, effective January 5, 2026. She follows Paula Marincola, who retired in October after serving as the center’s first director for 17 years. … » Read

The 1977 book The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions , a product of the early post-Stonewall years of gay liberation, offers a fey parable about gender roles and sexuality. Larry Mitchell’s text and Ned Asta’s … » Read

When Frank Gehry died at age 96 on Dec. 5, the world lost a man who “did more than any other single individual in the 21 st century to benefit music.” Such high praise, from Mark Swed, classical music critic for the Los Angeles Times … » Read

Canada’s National Arts Centre (NAC) has promoted Annabelle Cloutier, its executive director of strategy and communications and corporate secretary to the board of trustees, to be its next president and CEO for a five-year term, effective … » Read

MILAN (AP) — The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk  with a 12-minute standing ovation Sunday, as the storied theater synonymous with the Italian … » Read