The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), which has enjoyed a productive working relationship with the Interlochen Center for the Arts since 1926, will take a key role in working with students as part of Interlochen Online’s Arts Camp this … » Read

Leaders of eight Austrian orchestras have made their case for resuming orchestral performances in a letter to Austrian Culture Secretary Ulrike Lunacek. Classical concerts are important, they argue, both for economic reasons and for the proven … » Read

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has finally announced its plans for the 2020 Tanglewood Festival, June 19-August. The constrictions of the pandemic have left no choice but to cancel, at an estimated total loss to the BSO, inclusive of cancelled … » Read

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