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Olga Smirnova, a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, will make her debut as a guest artist with American Ballet Theater in May at the Metropolitan Opera House, the company announced Wed…
The dancers and stage managers of New York City Ballet, who have been working under an expired concert since the summer of 2012, have ratified a new labor agreement, according to their union…
JR, the artist who decorated the floor of the Koch Theater with a 6,500-square-foot photo, will conceive and direct a work for New York City Ballet's spring season.
The new production, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, will premiere in 2015 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Michael Fabiano, a 29-year-old tenor from Montclair, N.J., has been given the Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers.
A court ruling in a lawsuit over a philanthropist's pledge does not mean the end of the dispute.
The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance will use a grant from the Mellon Foundation to help preserve choreography on Graham dances.
Robert Rattray, who has long experience in artist management, has been appointed the Metropolitan Opera's next assistant general manager for artistic affairs.
Sergei Filin, the Bolshoi Ballet artistic director who was wounded in an acid attack last year, will help judge a youth ballet competition in April.
The company is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a special performance at the Koch Theater on March 11 for which all tickets will cost $6.
Wendy Whelan, the longtime New York City Ballet star who has been making a critically acclaimed foray into modern dance, announced Friday that she was postponing a national tour this spring …
Joan Finkelstein will succeed Theodore S. Bartwink at the Harkness Foundation, which distributes grants to dance companies.
The company will present "The Barber of Seville," "The Marriage of Figaro" and John Corigliano's 1991 opera "Ghosts of Versailles"
The Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from the first two performances of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" at the Metropolitan Opera this month because she is suffering from the flu, …
Chelsea Opera, a small Manhattan opera company, has appointed Samuel McCoy as its new music director and principal conductor.
A musical developed by the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade team will get its concert hall premiere next month in Cincinnati.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera "The Passenger" will come to New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival in July.
Sino American Global Entertainment, a partnership with IMG Artists in the United States and China Arts and Entertainment Group, aims to create new paths for performances and marketing in bot…
The opera company won permission to auction off its remaining assets earlier this week from Judge Sean H. Lane of United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan.
Jenifer Ringer, Janie Taylor, Sébastien Marcovici, and Jonathan Stafford will all retire during the 2014 winter and spring seasons.
James Levine of the Metropolitcan Opera was welcomed back after a two-year absence with speeches, arias, and reminiscences by several generations of Met singers.
A Benjamin Britten orchestration of Chopin piano music that was believed to be lost will re-enter the repertory on Friday night when American Ballet Theater uses it for its performance of Mi…
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will spend three weeks in residence at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in August.
To mark Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will stream a live performance on Thursday.
James Whiteside -- who created a stir in several roles since joining American Ballet Theater as a soloist last fall " is being promoted to principal dancer with the company, its artistic dir…