As theaters and concert halls struggle to craft safe ways to resume operations, one of the great unknowns is how potential audiences will respond. Studies from two research firms—Shugoll Research and IMPACTS Research & … » Read

The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF), one of Wyoming’s premier arts organizations, has cancelled its summer festival. In its place, Festival organizers are planning a three-day intensive in late August of filmed performances—subject … » Read

Even as summer festivals in Europe and the U.S. announce cancellations, some musical organizations in Shanghai and Hong Kong are starting to offer performances in front of live—if masked and socially distanced—audiences in efforts to … » Read

London’s Wigmore Hall and the BBC have announced a ray of sunshine amidst the dark clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty hour-long concerts will be performed onstage and livestreamed on the venue’s website, as well as broadcast on … » Read

MILAN--Italy’s theaters have been shuttered since February 23, but many have been busily devising plans for how they will eventually reopen in accordance with coronavirus regulations. An indication of when that might be allowed to happen … » Read

As the viability of a fall 2020 concert and opera season in the U.S. becomes increasingly unlikely, the last hold-outs of the summer season are finally coming to terms with reality. Earlier this week, the Santa Fe Opera and Santa Fe Chamber Music … » Read

In a move that may well foreshadow decisions to be made by other performing arts organizations, Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater has decided that discretion is the better part of valor; it will not begin its next season until March 2021. … » Read

Collectors abhor missing pieces, so when Linda Murray became the curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts (NYPLPA) in 2015, it was to be expected that she ask, “Why don’t we … » Read

The office of Austria’s Governor Wilfried Haslauer has confirmed that a special committee of federal, state, city, and tourism representatives will meet on May 25 to decide the ultimate fate of the Salzburg Festival 2020. “On the one … » Read

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house on Thursday unveiled a virtual journey through its ornate premises and rich archives via Google Arts & Culture, with serendipitous timing as theaters throughout Italy and the western … » Read