At the end of the worst single day and week of cancellation announcements since March, the American Ballet Theater issued its own last night. The season was designed as a celebration of the company’s 80 th anniversary. “Due to ongoing … » Read

With Payroll Protection Plan (PPP) funds running out, organizations everywhere are moving into the next stage of survival mode. The Minnesota Orchestra for one has announced that full time staff and musicians will take a pay cut of 20 percent. … » Read

The first post-lockdown performance at Barcelona’s Liceu opera house next Monday, June 22—the “Concert for the Biocene”—will play before a most unusual audience. As conceptualized by the artist Eugenio Ampudia, the … » Read

The presenting arm of Lincoln Center is following its tenants’ lead and shutting down all programming through February, 2021. That includes the Great Performers Series and the White Light Festival, plus any activity in the 2020/21 David … » Read

The shoes just keep dropping. Within minutes of Lincoln Center’s cancellation of its fall season, the New York City Ballet followed suit. Programming for September 22-October 18 has been erased from the schedule, as have all of the … » Read

It’s been quite a day for New York’s major performing arts venues. First,  Lincoln Center cancelled its fall season, followed within the hour by New York City Ballet , and now, at the end of an already wretched day, Carnegie … » Read

Esa-Pekka Salonen will have to wait a few more months to start his tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. On a day rife with fall season cancellations, SFS has joined the crowd, bringing the virtual curtain down on the rest of … » Read

The coronavirus pandemic has cut a wide swathe through the classical music world, threatening financial collapse for every type of musical organization, from major opera houses and symphony orchestras to string quartets. One segment especially … » Read

Following its neighbors at the Met Opera and New York Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) has cancelled its fall 2020 season, choosing to label it as “postponed to fall 2021." Asked about when the season might … » Read

Coping with the impact of Covid-19, the Boston Symphony has announced “Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival,” a vast array of newly recorded and archival performances to be streamed from its website between July 3 to August 23. Many of the … » Read