In February, even before COVID-19 caused the shutdown of the live, in-person performing arts world, Marc Baylin announced that, after nearly 40 years in the business, he would be closing shop at Baylin Artists, est. 1993, by June of 2021. His … » Read

The Bard Music Festival/Bard SummerScape has officially been cancelled. In a letter to patrons sent out yesterday, organizers explained that the planned offerings between June 26 and August 16 had been postponed until summer 2021. Among them: the … » Read

On June 15, the Metropolitan Opera will launch a free eight-week Global Summer Camp. Each week will feature an opera from the Met’s archive complemented by hands-on creative projects; instruction from educators and artists; and the chance … » Read

The 125 th edition of the Proms—scheduled for July 17 through September 12—will adopt a unique approach to accommodate the threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. “This year it is not going to be the Proms as we know them, but … » Read

Sun Valley Music Festival, which lays claim to being the nation’s largest admission-free, privately supported festival of classical music, has reimagined its 36 th annual season as an online event, possibly with much of the programming … » Read

Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is one of the few in the world to currently perform in front of a live audience. The country’s exemplary public health management of the coronavirus pandemic has allowed schools to stay open and … » Read

London’s Southbank Center, the U.K.’s largest arts and cultural organization, is joining the growing roster of performance venues around the world that have seen the earliest moment for reopening as likely to be the spring of 2021. … » Read

John Anderson, president of Barrett Artists, formerly Herbert Barrett Management, has decided to close the office. Between the impact of the pandemic on the field and his own desire to retire—he turns 80 in July—he’s decided, in … » Read

More and more performing arts organizations are bowing to the inevitable and giving up on a return to business in 2020. “I think 2020 is gone,” said Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater … » Read

The Salzburg Festival’s 100 th anniversary season will be a severely curtailed one, due to the Austrian government’s coronavirus containment measures. It will run from August 1 to 30. Instead of 200 events over 44 days at 16 … » Read