On Dec. 8, HarrisonParrott will inaugurate Virtual Circle, a live-streaming and digital content platform. The partnership with eMusic Live will offer audiences “concert look and feel” performances as well as workshops/masterclasses, … » Read

When the San Francisco Opera isn’t streaming some of its past, classic performances (Samuel Ramey as Boris Godunov this week, Željko Lucic as Rigoletto next), it’s projecting them on the giant screen at the Fort Mason Drive-in, where … » Read

The Dallas Symphony, currently hosting its second annual Women in Classical Music symposium, was among the first to return to its home base for live concerts, albeit socially distanced onstage and with a limited audience in the Meyerson Symphony … » Read

CHICAGO--For the second consecutive year, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association’s budget has been hit by an unexpected tsunami of cancelled concerts. In spring 2019, it was a seven-week CSO musicians’ strike . In spring 2020 it … » Read

As technology stretches our ability to replicate almost everything, separating the real from the fake is increasingly difficult. It is now possible to use artificial intelligence (A.I.) to compose music as well as to generate sounds … » Read

Unlike larger symphony orchestras nationwide, the Columbus (OH) Symphony—numbering 45 full-time musicians and 14 staff members—has dodged the pay cuts so prevalent in the classical music world. “We set a goal early… to … » Read

A week out from its previously announced Throughline extravaganza --featuring Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, all eight Collaborative Partners, and musicians of the orchestra--the San Francisco Symphony has cancelled its remaining live … » Read

Florida Grand Opera has officially joined the Covid-19 cancellation crowd, announcing that its mainstage seasons at the Adrienne Arsht and Broward Performing Arts Centers have been postponed to 2021-22. The theaters are dark and, by law, not … » Read

This list will be updated weekly. Note all times are 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 currently six hours … » Read

On Nov. 15 the Long Beach Opera will premiere its 2020 Songbook , a 2½ hour-long program of online video performances of twenty newly commissioned works by emerging composers. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will host the … » Read