The Minnesota Orchestra has reported an $11.7mn operating loss, the largest in its history, for the fiscal year ending on Aug. 31, 2020. This figure is almost $3mn more than the previous year’s $8.8mn loss. The increased deficit came in … » Read

Having avoided the flood of streams last summer with its own, live Bandwagon , the New York Philharmonic’s winter-time response to the pandemic is, inevitably, an on-demand platform NYPhil+. The service mixes newly recorded performances … » Read

The arrival of the Biden administration has raised the hopes of America’s beleaguered performing arts community. Those with a sense of history point to the Great Depression-era Federal Theater Project (FTP) as one example of how the … » Read

Stefana Atlas and Samantha Scully, both formerly of Columbia Artists, have formed a new firm, Arabella Arts, with an initial roster of 30 artists. Almost all of them were with that now-defunct powerhouse of classical music management, where Atlas … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has shelved plans to resume live performances in Severance Hall next month due to the continuing threat of the coronavirus. Among the events cancelled are the April 26 John Williams Conducts program. Now the earliest time … » Read

TRG Arts (The Results Group for the Arts) has recently released “Arts and Culture Comeback Planning: January 2021,” the latest in its series of studies related to the coronavirus pandemic’s impact, focused in this instance on … » Read

Was Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a masterpiece or a flop? Written for the 1976 Bicentennial and sponsored by Coca-Cola to the tune of $900,000, the show closed on Broadway after only seven performances. At the time, the … » Read

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) February digital schedule offers expanded content on both Experience CSO website and CSOtv to mark Black History Month. Detailed information is available here . Front and center will be two episodes of … » Read

Forced by the pandemic to adapt, the Bayreuth Festival has cobbled together an unconventional season, opening July 25 with a new production of Der Fliegende Holländer by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Oksana Lyniv, the first woman to … » 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