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NEWS: Controversy Roils Berkshire Museum

by Arts National on November 3, 2017November 3, 2017

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…

NEWS: Musical America Announces 2018 Artist of the Year

by Arts National on October 17, 2017

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…

NEWS: United States to Withdraw from UNESCO

by Arthur Freeman on October 12, 2017January 30, 2018

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…

NEWS: Houston Opera Takes the Convention Center

by Nadine Kadinsky on October 7, 2017January 30, 2018

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…

FEATURE: Three Innovative Opera Companies to Watch

by Arts National on October 5, 2017October 23, 2017

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…

INTERVIEW: Crystal Manich on Directing Boston Lyric Opera’s Tosca

by Basil Considine on September 25, 2017February 6, 2018

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…

NEWS: Composer-Lyricist Michael Friedman Dies at 41

by Arts National on September 9, 2017September 11, 2017

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…

NEWS: Today is Amy Beach Day

by Arts National on September 5, 2017September 6, 2017

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…

NEWS: Poet John Ashbery Dead at 90

by Arts National on September 3, 2017

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…

NEWS: Hurricane Harvey Hits Houston Arts Organizations Hard

by Arts National on September 3, 2017September 3, 2017

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…

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