Conciliatory feeling seems altogether absent in the standoff between management and labor at the Metropolitan Opera. With the stagehands locked out since early December, the latest flashpoint revolves around the employment of non-Met musicians to … » Read

The Dutch National Opera & Ballet (DNOB) has named Stijn Schoonderwoerd as general director, effective Feb. 1. He succeeds Els van der Plas, who has held the position since 2012. Schoonderwoerd joins with Sophie de Lint, director of Dutch … » Read

Rolling Stone has confirmed that the Grammy Awards will not happen as scheduled, on January 31 st . Although it is only the pop winners that are announced on TV—probably remotely this year, as was the case with the Emmy Awards-- the Grammy … » 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

The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s concert took place as scheduled, pre-recorded in an empty Musikverein under Riccardo Muti. Normally, some 50,000 people apply for tickets to attend. This year, the orchestra reports that 7,000 … » Read

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmission inside the venue. The … » Read

Under the artistic leadership of director Graham Vick, Birmingham Opera Company has been bringing cutting edge work to the U.K.’s most diverse city for the last 20 years. Engaging local communities, it presents opera in found spaces from … » Read

Musicians of all stripes in Great Britain have known for well over three years that if Brexit became a reality, their professional lives would suddenly become considerably more difficult. Within days of the June 2016 referendum approving Great … » Read

The U.K.’s first lockdown cut off the oxygen supply for lovers of live music from March 16 until well into June with advice on social distancing making it well-nigh impossible for most venues with any financial sense to open until at least … » Read

Tobias Picker is one of the leading opera composers of his generation – his An American Tragedy premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 2005 – and for the past four years he has been artistic director of Tulsa Opera. But for all his … » Read