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

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