The Dallas Opera’s music director Graeme Jenkins will leave at the end of the 2012-13 season — to pursue his European career full-time.

A new look for the arts in the Dallas Morning News, remembering Stoney Burns, and arts spending by the numbers. Good morning, it’s Monday!

Both of Bill Lively’s brothers had strokes, and when he began feeling symptoms the past five weeks, Lively decided to step down from the DSO. He talks with Bill Zeeble and Nancy Nasher responds to the news.

Bill Lively successfully raised the money to build the AT&T Performing Arts Center and to host the Super Bowl. But he will not be doing the same for the DSO.

Royal gift suggestions from the DMA, new high school musical theater awards, a dust-up over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ memoir and lots of talk/not talk about a contemporary art curating controversy — all in today’s roundup.

The City of Dallas public art program will soon transform a section of Ross Avenue that passes beneath Central Expressway. KERA’s Stephen Becker reports that project has been eight years in the making.

Can the hotel-motel tax be used to support Dallas arts? How big a draw is culture for luring companies here? Dallas’ four mayoral candidates answered questions Wednesday at the Nasher Arts Forum.

It’s the TBT’s 50th anniversary — but its dancers and administrators are facing salary cuts. Plus, the company won’t be dancing ‘Don Giovanni’ in Dallas.

At a gala luncheon today, arts patrons and performers celebrated Theatre 3’s 50th anniversary — and honored its long-time leader, Jac Alder.

Yesterday, we learned that NPR and PBS survived the federal budget compromise. Today we learn the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities are taking hits.