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

NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera’s operating revenue dropped by $25 million to $120 million in the fiscal year ending July 31, a season shortened due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, but the company avoided an operating loss … » Read

The Verbier Festival, having been among the first to cancel its 2020 edition due to the pandemic, can now go on record as the first festival to announce a completely live 2021 season, much of which will be streamed. Audiences will be limited to … » Read

Primary Wave Music, an independent music company in New York, has paid an estimated $30mn for the assets of Sun Records, one of rock ’n’ roll’s earliest and most iconic labels. Sam Phillips, the company’s founder, released … » Read