While the classical music world is slowly coming back to life, the pandemic continues to leave its impact. Regulations in the U.K. mandating returning artists quarantine for ten days have forced two high-profile cancellations in Salzburg. The … » Read

The Australia Council for the Arts, working collaboratively with the National Arts Council Singapore, has released In Real Life: Mapping Digital Cultural Engagement in the First Decades of the 21 st Century . The new report analyzes the ways in … » Read

The Office of Arts and Culture in Dallas is seeking new nonprofit management for “Classical 101” WRR Dallas (101.1). While the city “greatly values the classical music broadcasts and arts-organization support that Classical WRR … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera returned to work Wednesday after recommending their union ratify a new labor contract negotiated following a lockout that started last year. Local One of the International Alliance of … » Read

The Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) is presenting a full calendar of summer events featuring Opera Saratoga as well as its traditional summer resident companies—the New York City Ballet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and … » Read

Opera, claims Oliver Mears, the Royal Opera House’s director of opera, is the perfect means of spreading a pandemic. Social distancing is well-nigh impossible with musicians jammed into tight quarters in orchestra pits, sellout audiences … » Read

The San Diego Opera (SDO) has weathered the pandemic in fine form, announcing a modest surplus of less than $10,000 for the 2021 fiscal year and sporting the largest endowment—$8.8mn—in the company’s 56-year history. At … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera reached an agreement on a labor contract with its locked-out stagehands, the second of three major deals needed to resume performances in September following the pandemic. The agreement was reached … » Read

As the pandemic (hopefully) recedes into the background, Esa-Pekka Salonen has released plans for his first full season as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. Eschewing a single slogan for his programming ideas, Salonen instead cites … » Read