A controversy has erupted in Western Massachusetts over the Berkshire Museum’s plan to sell some 40 artworks from its collection. The planned auction is, according to a museum spokesperson, intended to shift its mission from…
Musical America has announced its 2018 Artist of the Year: Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons. The 38-year-old Latvian conductor’s professional career began as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra, before transitioning into…
The White House has announced that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on December 31, 2018. UNESCO was formally created effective November 4, 1946, as one…
Houston Grand Opera, one of the great opera companies of the United States, was hard-hit by Hurricane Harvey. Just like the Unsinkable Molly Brown, however, Houston Grand is not to be stopped: the company will…
A space between stairs and the wall became a performing space for Loft Opera’s production of Otello. Photo by Alejandro Simonetti. Grand opera is one of the most expensive live art forms in the world…
Opera director Crystal Manich. Photo by Laura Marie Duncan Photography. This interview has been syndicated with permission from the Twin Cities Arts Reader. Boston Lyric Opera’s new production of Tosca, a co-production with Opera Omaha, opens October…
Michael Friedman, the award-winning composer of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, died today at 41. John Michael Friedman was born on Sept. 24, 1975 in Boston, grew up primarily in Philadelphia, and passed away in Manhattan from AIDS…
The City of Boston has declared today, September 5, 2017, as Amy Beach Day. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867–December 27, 1944) was an American composer and concert pianist. She was the first American…
The American poet John Ashbery died today at age 90. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet was born in Rochester, NY and died in Hudson, NY. His works included the award-winning collections Some Trees (1956), Self-portrait in…
Pictured: Hurricane Harvey. Hurricane Harvey has hit the city of Houston hard. It’s hit many of the city’s flagship arts organizations just as hard. The Houston Ballet and the Alley Theatre’s homes suffered major damage…