With only 50 percent of its usual offerings, the six-week Tanglewood Music Festival will kick off July 10 with an all-Beethoven program including the Fifth Symphony, a nod to the Festival’s original opening concert in 1937, since the event … » Read

The San Diego Symphony’s (SDS) ambitious, $85mn year-round bayside concert venue—The Shell—is primed to open “as soon as it’s clear the time is right. It’s just a question of when, not if,” says the … » Read

The Kennedy Center has announced plans for its 50 th anniversary season, scheduled to kick off in September 2021. The menu of events includes programs and performances by all the organizations that operate under the Center’s umbrella, with … » Read

Among recent signs of musical life in-the-flesh is the Montreal Symphony’s return to the concert hall for the first time in six months, tonight and tomorrow night. The program, which will be streamed April 20-May 4, is 70 minutes long and … » Read

In classical music’s latest answer to the experimental March 27 rock concert in Barcelona , which sold (out) all 5,000 seats, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouworkest will perform in its storied hall on April 16 under the baton of Paavo … » Read

The LA Opera Orchestra has just received an extraordinary compliment, in the form of an immediate $5 million gift that will also function as a challenge grant from local philanthropists and longtime patrons Terri and Jerry Kohl. It is their … » Read

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sports, theater and music fans will be able to take their seats again in California as the state’s coronavirus cases plummet and vaccinations jump. After a year-long ban on most indoor seating, the state … » Read

If there is a silver lining to the shuttering of live classical music it is the explosion of streaming. Over the past year, concerts and artists otherwise inaccessible to many could be enjoyed in the comfort of one’s home, often for no or … » Read

Depending upon your point of view, the newly announced decision to tack a $1,000 donation on top of subscription fees for nearly 450 of the choicest seats for The Kimmel Center’s Broadway series is either a long-planned strategy to enhance … » 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