A unique music venue in American musical history—architect Louis Kahn’s floating music barge Point Counterpoint II —has found a permanent home on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Launched in 1976 as a floating concert stage … » Read

The Bolshoi Theater has survived a revolution, a world war, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Now the COVID-19 pandemic offers what may well be an even sterner challenge. Russia, already the fifth most-infected country in the world, is … » Read

A group of 25 internationally accomplished singers, instrumentalists, and conductors intended to ask the Bavarian Administrative Court to review the legality of closing concert halls and opera houses to combat the pandemic. Scheduled to file the … » Read

NEW YORK (AP) — The shuttered Metropolitan Opera locked out its stagehands in Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees at midnight on Monday because it has been unable to negotiate wage cuts during the novel … » 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 New York Philharmonic musicians will remain among the highest paid in the land, having just emerged from what President and CEO Deborah Borda describes frankly as “challenging” negotiations to hold onto their Covid-19 compensation … » Read

The Nashville Symphony has reached an agreement with its musicians, on furlough since July1 , to provide a monthly stipend beginning Jan. 2, 2021. “The July 1 announcement of the extended furlough… created an untenable situation for … » Read

Peter Marks, longtime theater critic for The Washington Post , has written a savvy “perspectives” piece, putting forward the idea of a “Dr. Fauci for the Arts.” He argues that the arts in this country have gone too long … » Read

Randy Cohen, VP of Research and Information for Americans for the Arts, lays out some staggering, if not surprising, pandemic statistics in his latest blog. All but 1 percent of all non-profit producing and presenting organizations, he writes, … » Read

Philadelphia arts groups large and small are the beneficiaries of $8 million in Covid-19 relief from the local William Penn Foundation and the New York based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, each of which brought $4 million to the table.   The … » Read