(Opera, Philadelphia) New Philadelphia Orchestra music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin has some plans for OCP. ...more...
Art News
Short Attention Span Theater Threatens to Become the New Norm
February 1, 2012
(Theater, National) The San Francisco Playhouse is just the latest venue to begin experimenting with Tweet Seats. ...more...
Dallas Opera to Simulcast at Cowboys Stadium
January 27, 2012
(Opera, Dallas) In a somewhat surprising move, the Dallas Opera announced Thursday that it will simulcast its April 28 production of “The Magic Flute” at Cowboys Stadium. ...more...
L.A. Opera Introduces Dynamic Pricing for 2012-13 Season
January 20, 2012
(Opera, Los Angeles) As has been happening with much of Broadway, this enables greater flexibility in pricing individual events. ...more...
The Minnesota Opera Has a Director, Finally
January 19, 2012
(Opera, Minneapolis) After thirteen years of searching, the opera has decided on Michael Christie, the outgoing head of the Phoenix Symphony. ...more...
“10×10 on North” Brings New Color to Midwinter with Ten Hot New Plays
January 18, 2012
(Arts Festival, Berkshire County) The organizers of the 10×10 on North have announced the details of the Berkshires’ first-ever winter contemporary arts festival, spearheaded by Barrington Stage in partnership with the City of Pittsfield. ...more...
Dallas Opera orders new Heggie-McNally work
January 18, 2012
(Opera, Dallas) The Dallas Opera has announced that it has commissioned another new, full-length opera by the creators of “Moby-Dick,” a work that made its world premiere in 2010. ...more...
San Francisco Opera Aims to Balance Budget, Retain Quality
January 18, 2012
(Opera, San Francisco) The S.F. Opera’s ambitious 2012-13 season features a pair of world premieres, including a commission based on Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne. ...more...
New York City Opera May Yet Sing Again
January 18, 2012
(Opera, New York) The orchestra union will likely vote on the agreement today and tomorrow; no word on future performances was forthcoming. ...more...
Postmortem for Opera Boston: Personality Clashes, Dysfunction
January 17, 2012
(Opera, Boston) It appears the last weeks of Opera Boston played out in fairly standard fashion. ...more...
Washington National Opera Finally Gets to Do Its “Ring”
January 11, 2012
(Opera, Washington DC) After falling one opera short of completion in 2009, the Washington National Opera announced yesterday that it will devote much of 2016 to finally performing the whole of Wagner’s monolithic masterpiece. ...more...
Let’s Just Get This Out of The Way: The San Antonio Opera Might Be Done
January 11, 2012
(Opera, San Antonio) The San Antonio Opera may have performed for the last time; the signs aren’t very positive, at least. ...more...
Enjoy The Met’s Production of Faust From the City of Trees
January 8, 2012
(Opera/Film, Boise) OK, so you’ve sold your soul to the devil in exchange for another shot at youth and passion, gotten your lover pregnant, inadvertently killed her brother, and now ...more...
Intimate Opera: Fear no music
January 5, 2012
(Opera, Indianapolis) The folks behind Intimate Opera, a new company devoted to staging “underperformed opera” with “untapped talent,” want you to know that you don’t have to be afraid. ...more...
Seeking New York’s ‘Other’ Opera Company
January 4, 2012
(Opera, New York) By now enough people have gotten on enough soapboxes about New York City Opera’s sorry financial state. But while the company remains in limbo, ...more...
January at the Mahaiwe: Mavis Staples, The Met Opera’s “Enchanted Island”, Out of Africa
January 4, 2012
(Opera, Great Barrington) This month, January 2012, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will present a performance by Grammy Lifetime Achievement-winning rhythm and blues singer Mavis Staples ...more...
Debt overwhelms another: Opera Boston announces closure
December 28, 2011
(Opera, Boston) The company, the second-largest in Boston, said that its $500,000 budget shortfall was insurmountable. ...more...
Wynton Marsalis, Cultural Correspondent
December 19, 2011
(Jazz, National) ArtsJournal columnist Howard Mandel takes a closer look at what, precisely, we might be able to expect from Wynton Marsalis in his new role as CBS News cultural correspondent. ...more...
How Does the Brain Perceive Art?
December 15, 2011
(Arts, National) Poorly, apparently; or at least we can’t usually tell what’s real from what’s fake. ...more...
NYC Opera’s divisive negotiations might be reaching breaking point
December 13, 2011
(Opera, New York) Don’t count on the New York City Opera’s struggles to end anytime soon. ...more...
Seattle’s Watershed Opera presents modernized, family-friendly arias
December 10, 2011
(Opera, Seattle) The singers of Watershed Opera are more attractive than the law allows. ...more...
Chicago Opera Theater finds new direction
December 8, 2011
(Opera, Chicago) Long Beach Opera general and artistic director Andreas Mitisek will soon be introduced as the COT’s new general director. ...more...
Joplin’s Treemonisha gets new life
December 7, 2011
(Opera, National) Joplin’s opera has just been re-recorded by the Paragon Ragtime Opera in honor of the centennial of the score’s publication. ...more...
Kentucky Country Day students perform in Holocaust-era opera
December 6, 2011
(Opera, Louisville) Two children, working to save their mother, join forces with a group of animals to defeat the town’s villainous organ grinder. ...more...
City Opera Calls for Mediator in Impasse With Unions
December 6, 2011
(Opera, New York) New York City Opera announced on Monday that it was seeking the help of a federal mediator in a deadlock with the unions representing its chorus and orchestra. ...more...
