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The New York premiere of "Charlie Parker's Yardbird" will go on, at the Apollo Theater in April, even after the closure of Gotham Chamber Opera, its original presenter.
The Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation filed a demand for arbitration this week.
With 360-degree videos, fans of the performing arts can feel what it's like to be in the middle of the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Paris Opera Ballet.
Led by Plácido Domingo, the opera cast and audience sang "La Marseillaise" on Saturday.
The season will feature a wealth of works by Alexei Ratmansky, and Misty Copeland in lead roles including "Swan Lake" and "La Fille Mal Gardée."
Misty Copeland and Tracy Oliver, of "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl," are developing a drama about the dance world for 20th Century Fox Television.
Robert Fairchild will return to City Ballet for three Broadway-flavored performances this fall.
David Snead, vice president for marketing at the New York Philharmonic, is leaving the orchestra after 14 years to become president and chief executive of the Handel and Haydn Society in Bos…
The baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who is being treated for a brain tumor, will return to the stage for three coming Met performances of Verdi's "Il Trovatore."
Ms. Kent, the former American Ballet Theater principal who retired in June, will be artistic director of the summer intensive programs and will teach and coach the studio company and at the …
The production of the whimsical, magical piece " based on the children's book by Beni Montresor " will be directed and choreographed by Karole Armitage for Opera Saratoga.
The Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif., says it has raised nearly two-thirds of a new $68 million campaign to transform its plaza.
Ms. Heath will take over as the radio host in September, succeeding Margaret Juntwait, who died in June.
The Martha Graham Dance Company will celebrate its 90th-anniversary season in April at New York City Center.
Breaking with tradition, the Metropolitan Opera said the tenor singing the title role in Verdi's "Otello" will not perform in blackface.
Zev Greenfield will be the executive director of the avant-garde performance center in Brooklyn.
The opera canceled the free outdoor screening at Lincoln Center, but will offer more seats at a simulcast in Times Square.
Under its new artistic director, Andrew Byrne, Symphony Space will offer a season centering on four projects.
The opera house will make its Met Opera on Demand service, which costs $14.99 a month, available through televisions with Roku devices.
The festival returns in January with works by David T. Little, Du Yun, Donnacha Dennehy, Heidi Rodewald and many others.
The world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's "Cold Mountain" opera has been generating so much interest that another performance has been added to the schedule, as well as plans to release a reco…
The residency is aimed to further the work of midcareer artists with nearly $200,000 in direct support and a commission for New York Live Arts.
One of the bright spots in classical and contemporary music in recent years has been the rise of the cool space: the proliferation of new rooms with downtown or Brooklyn vibes that feel more…
A new work by Mark Morris and company premieres of Ashton's "Monotones I and II" and Balanchine's "Valse-Fantaisie" are highlights of the fall season.
Misty Copeland of American Ballet Theater will replace Megan Fairchild of New York City Ballet in "On the Town" for two weeks in late August.
