To the Editor: I wanted to share an observation which hit me while watching your recent Brian Prechtl One to One interview. His comments (12:15 - 12:45) celebrating donor participation during the pandemic, and the robust fiscal health of the … » Read

So much for reopening indoor venues to audiences. The Park Avenue Armory, with its vast 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill, was to have opened on Wednesday March 24 for a seven-day, socially distanced, public premiere of the Bill T. … » Read

The Ojai Music Festival has announced plans for its 75 th live edition, moved from its usual June to September 16 to 19 in hopes that the pandemic will be under control by that time. John Adams, curator and conductor for the 2021 Festival … » Read

In April the Los Angeles Opera is introducing a new Signature Recital Series of intimate online performances by five world-class singers. The full-length recitals, filmed in concert venues across the U.S. and in Europe, can be viewed on demand … » Read

Tanglewood will open for the first time in 18 months, with live performances planned to run July 9 to August 6—50 percent of the usual season. Programming details are due to be announced on April 8; performances will be limited to 80 … » Read

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra may be the only arts group on the planet to emerge from the pandemic with a surplus. As of fiscal 2020 close (June 30), it posted a surplus of $74,000 on operating expenses of $9.7 million. All the while SPCO says … » Read

Somebody in the Metropolitan Opera stalemate with its unions has finally blinked. First it was management, when, in December, it offered union members up to $1,543 a week if they would just come back to the negotiating table. (The company has … » Read

Jaap (Van Zweden) is back in the Hall, and the New York Philharmonic plans to put its Bandwagon back on the road in May. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is anticipating limited audiences in the Hollywood Bowl this summer. “Glimmerglass on the … » Read

The Minnesota Orchestra, which has performed solely for at-home viewing and listening the past nine months, will conclude its 2020-21 Classical season with performances for in-person audiences in Orchestra Hall beginning in June. Between April … » Read

Labor troubles at the Metropolitan Opera continue. Orchestra members have been without a paycheck since last April; choristers, dancers, and others began receiving stipends in January as an incentive to negotiate; and the company’s roughly … » Read