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New York City Opera Tries Again For Revival With New Director
"Constantine Orbelian was promoted Tuesday to executive director of the largely dormant New York City Opera, which hasn’t given a staged performance since 2022...
Lincoln Center Theater Appoints Lear deBessonet And Bartlett Sher Its Next Leaders
The new directors will take up their posts when current artistic director André Bishop retires next summer after 33 years. Sher, as executive producer...
Orlando Ballet Hires New Executive Director From Joffrey
"Bradley W. Renner … comes to the position after serving as General Manager and then Director of Development at the Joffrey Ballet for the...
Italy’s Culture Minister Is Out After Giving His Ex-Mistress A Job
"Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, had faced a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur, said last month she had...
In Staging A Script About Sri Lanka’s Civil War, A Playwright Suddenly Learns About...
S. Shakthidharan, born a Sri Lankan Tamil, was a toddler when his family fled the fighting and settled in Australia. When he asked his...
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry To Step Down In 2025 After 30 Years As Director
"He has held the top post since 1995. When it was revealed in 2018 that he planned to continue through 2025, (when his contract...
In A Painful Profile, Kathy Bates Says That Her Current Role Will Be Her...
Bates — who said she'll retire after finishing the title role in the reboot of the TV series Matlock — was having a very...
Apple Must Pay Ireland $14.4 Billion In Back Taxes, Rules EU’s Highest Court
Finally closing a case that started in 2016, the European Court of Justice agreed with the European Commission (the European Union's executive branch) that...
LACMA’s New Building Won’t Be Opening Until 2026
The new home for the museum's permanent collection, designed by starchitect Peter Zumthor and named the David Geffen Galleries, was initially scheduled to open...
Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized For Emergency Heart Surgery
The disgraced film producer and convicted-then-unconvicted rapist was rushed to New York City's Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island, where he is being held pending...
2024 Praemium Imperiale Awards To Maria João Pires, Shigeru Ban, Ang Lee, Doris Salcedo,...
The 15 million yen (roughly $105,000) prize, intended as an arts equivalent of the Nobel prizes, go to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, Oscar-winning...
Interim No More: Peter Oundjian Appointed Colorado Symphony’s Music Director
The former music director of the Toronto Symphony (and, before that, longtime first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet), Oundjian stepped in as principal...
John Eliot Gardiner, Fired By The Ensembles He Founded, Creates New Ones
In July, the board of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras broke ties with the conductor, 11 months after he punched a singer in the...
“Gentle Giant Of Chamber Music In America,” Anthony Checchia, Has Died At 94
He was the longtime general manager of the Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont's great summer school for music students, and founding artistic director of the...
A Docu-Play About Hamas’s October 7 Terror Attack
October 7, a verbatim play along the lines of The Laramie Project and Anna Deavere Smith's works, is drawn from interviews with more than...
How Ancient Greek Texts In Arabic Translation Started A Medieval Scientific Revolution
"It is well-known that classic works of Greek science and philosophy were translated into Arabic before they were translated into other European languages —...
Hong Kong’s Highly-Touted, Popular Arts District Is Selling Off Land To Remain Solvent
The West Kowloon Cultural District received a set amount of funding to open, expecting to sustain itself long-term by developing commercial and residential real...
This Highly-Praised New Ballet Was Cancelled After Accusations Of Cultural Appropriation. Were Those Claims...
England's Northern Ballet premiered Geisha just before the 2020 COVID lockdown. The troupe has several Japanese dancers who were excited about it, the creative...
Philly Fringe Begins 2024 Festival By Announcing Its New Director
Nell Bang-Jensen, artistic director of Theatre Horizon in (the Philadelphia suburb of) Norristown, will be (FringeArts') … new CEO, taking over from cofounder Nick...
María Benítez, 82, Was A Pioneer In Establishing Flamenco In The U.S.
Born in Minnesota, raised in New Mexico and trained in Madrid, she established María Benítez Teatro Flamenco in New York and Santa Fe in...
UK Won’t Charge Harvey Weinstein With Sex Crimes, So New York Will Charge Him...
"Spared from prosecution in Britain on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein now faces the prospect of a new indictment in New York, where prosecutors retrying the...
One Of Rome’s Ancient Monuments Has Been Struck And Damaged By Lightning
"The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged (by a lightning strike) after a violent storm hit...
Las Vegas Will Be Getting A Proper Art Museum — With Help From LACMA
Las Vegas is the largest city in the US without a major art museum; casino magnate Elaine Wynn and LACMA director Michael Govan intend...
At Last Some Good Financial News For NPR
"NPR expects to close its current fiscal year with revenues about 2% over budget due in part to growth in development. … (The network's)...
Seattle Symphony Names A Music Director: Xian Zhang Of New Jersey Symphony
"Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra...
