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

The 64 th annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) will take place online from Jan. 8 to 12 amid a global pandemic that has cost the U.S. arts and cultural sector an estimated $14.8 billion in financial losses. … » Read

Fund raising in the arts has always been a challenge, especially the performing arts, where contributions far outweigh box office receipts in annual income. But when there can be no performances whatsoever, as in the current environment, and … » Read

In June, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, got together over Zoom to chat, and their conversation turned to an idea Costanzo had about musicians giving concerts from the back of … » Read

When Wigmore Hall Artistic Director John Gilhooly announced on May 12, 2020 , that London’s premiere chamber music venue would be mounting a series of 20 lunchtime concerts to be broadcast from an empty hall throughout June, the classical … » Read

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and its musicians, as represented by AFM Local 546, have come to an agreement, after a contentious battle that saw the  players filing a grievance in August. Management had furloughed them one month … » 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