Battered by a contentious musicians’ strike the year before the pandemic struck, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is again confronting labor troubles, this time not of its own making. Caught in an entanglement with the Strathmore … » Read

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has signed a new, three-year contract that immediately restores salaries to pre-pandemic rates, with annual raises totaling eight percent by the end of the contract. Musicians had accepted a 10 percent … » Read

With Germany’s Covid numbers rising in the last seven days to their highest level since the start of the pandemic, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Deutsche Oper Berlin is among those performing arts groups to reinstate the mask … » Read

On Nov. 3 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) released operating results for the 2021 fiscal year, which concluded on-June 30, 2021, at its annual meeting held in person and online. The 130th season, while beset with the … » Read

The Santa Fe Opera's 65 th Festival season, from July 1 through August 27, 2022, will include 38 performances of five new productions as well as two scenes featuring the opera’s talented stage and technical apprentices. Bizet’s Carmen … » Read

On Oct. 28 the prize-winning Moldovan violinist Alexandra Conunova had her $2.3 million Giovanni Batistta Guadagnini violin seized by overzealous custom officials as she was to depart her country's Chirisinau Airport for a concert in Russia. … » Read

Much of the positive news of a return to live performing has emanated from larger organizations with the financial wherewithal and resources necessary to implement public health mandates. For smaller organizations, the return is more fraught, as … » Read

Munich is often referred to as the “world’s opera capital,” due in no small part to the presence of the Bavarian State Opera. Serge Dorny, the company’s new general manager, and Vladimir Jurowski, the new music director, … » Read

In her painstakingly researched book, All the News That’s Fit to Click : How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists , sociologist Caitlin Petre examines how technology and commercialism have combined to alter the nature of the … » Read

As their symphony orchestras return to live performances, some musicians find themselves facing a Hobson’s choice. Should they accede to their employer’s mandate that they receive the Covid-19 vaccine, or refuse to get the shot and … » Read