The catalyst for Long Beach Opera’s inventive pandemic pivot was the need to raise funds. "We’ve always been an unconventional company, but until last year we had been doing very conventional galas, where you ask people to purchase a … » Read

Lost jobs and failed businesses are the everyday curse of the pandemic. Nowhere are these societal depredations greater than in the performing arts. According to The New York Times , at the end of 2020’s third quarter, when overall … » Read

Closed to the public from March until July and reliant annually on around £50 million from box office alone, the U.K.’s largest opera company stood to lose a great deal this year, but its response has been significant. From March to … » Read

The coronavirus pandemic has seen performers becoming stage managers and camera crews, but the singers of UK-based choral foundation VOCES8 went one step further and reinvented themselves as impresarios as well. Running for ten weeks from August … » Read

Hardcore balletomanes grousing about the cancellation of performances by most of the world’s dance companies need only look to Russia to see what can happen when the threat posed by the pandemic is ignored. Recent reports from St. … » Read

Although the therapeutic power of music is widely acknowledged, the science of exactly how it works remains a bit of a mystery. At Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine, assistant professor of music-in-medicine … » Read

Since last March, when California first went into lockdown because of the coronavirus, “Keeping Live Music Alive” has been the theme of Mainly Mozart in San Diego. Forced to cancel its annual orchestra festival in June, as well as a … » Read

The Teatro San Carlo, the world's oldest continuously active opera house, is also proving to be one of Italy’s most innovative. When the Naples house launches the "San Carlo Digital Opera House" in mid 2021, it will become the first opera … » Read

The imminent passage of a second, $900bn. stimulus package signals that help is on the way for the nation’s independent music venues. The package includes the Save Our Stages Act, which establishes a $15bn. SPA (Small Projects) grant … » Read

There is little to celebrate in Hong Kong’s arts industry at the moment. A full-employment contract is a thing of the past for 82 per cent of artists and support staff, and nearly two thirds of the 1,800-strong Hong Kong Theater Arts … » Read