The pandemic has shuttered live performances at the Glimmerglass Festival this summer. A season that would usually include more than 100 events attracting over 35,000 ticket buyers will now exist only online. Ticket buyers may request a refund or … » Read

The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is furloughing 41 administrative employees, nearly 20 percent of its full-time staff, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met said Tuesday (May 5) that the furloughs are temporary and will … » Read

Marlboro has announced the cancellation of its 70th-anniversary season, scheduled to run July 18 to August 16. Statement from organizers follows:  This decision was especially difficult because this was to be our 70th Anniversary … » Read

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music has gone to Anthony Davis for his opera The Central Park Five . The opera, which features a libretto by Richard Wesley, was cited by the Prize committee as “a courageous operatic work, marked by powerful … » Read

Glyndebourne has cancelled its Festival 2020 in its entirety, having already postponed its opening by nearly two months; last March it announced it would be opening July 14 rather than the original May 21, but it is not to be. Cancelled in the … » Read

Paris Opera is looking at losses of 40 million euros ($43 million) this year, Director Stéphane Lissner warned on French public radio today, and may not reopen until 2021. The company was already under siege by Paris’s … » Read

The Boston Pops has cleverly repurposed John Williams’s score for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Summon the Heroes , as a tribute to today’s heroes—the medical personnel, police, grocery and transportation workers, and first … » Read

Several weeks ago, the Aspen Music Festival and School pushed its opening date ahead from July 2 to July 16, with a plan to present an abridged, six-week event, through August 23. Today, President and CEO Alan Fletcher has announced that the 2020 … » Read

The corona virus pandemic has added two more summer festivals to its casualty list. The Colorado Music Festival has cancelled its six-week program scheduled to begin in Boulder on June 25. In a letter to Festival patrons, Executive Director … » Read

The flood of coronavirus cancellations continues unabated, with the Kennedy Center’s announcement today of closure through August 9, a large leap forward from the reopening date of May 22 that it was still holding onto as of three weeks … » Read