The Southbank Center and the British Film Institute have severed their funding relationship with Shell, the international oil and gas giant whose corporate headquarters are also located on the South Bank. This move comes on the heels of last … » Read

We will be updating the following list as additions arrive; please note that Central European Time (CET) is currently five hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time. Contact editor@musicalamerica.com to add to the list. Monday, March 16 7 pm CET: Vienna … » Read

Following governmental "advice," with regard to socializing and COVID-19, public performance spaces, from the Royal Opera House to Wigmore Hall, Scottish National Opera and Edinburg's Festival Theater, have shut down with immediate effect. The … » Read

In compliance with an order from Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin banning gatherings of over 50 to slow the spread of COVID-19, the Bolshoi Theater has cancelled all performances until April 10. "To suspend leisure activities in Moscow, namely in the … » Read

There went the season: Carnegie Hall has announced that it will remain closed through May 10—about five weeks more than originally announced last week. This includes all events at all halls and all educational programming. The full list of … » Read

The Lyric Opera of Chicago, responding to a directive from Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and Mayor Lori Lightfoot barring all large-scale events for the next 30 days, has cancelled all three complete Ring cycles as well as the preceding two … » Read

Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and the Los Angeles Music Center have cancelled activities for all of their venues through the end of March. Broadway shows are dark though April 12. As of this writing, virtually all U.S. orchestras and opera … » Read

For those feeling live-concert withdrawal, there are at-home streaming and video options to be found. We will be updating the list as additions arrive. March 13 8pm CT: Juanjo Mena conducts the Minnesota Orchestra with pianist Kirill Gerstein at … » Read

The classical music industry is facing one of the most challenging times it has known, teetering into the coronavirus-crisis hurricane with no sense of how long before it blows itself out. Even prior to today’s avalanche of concert … » Read

March 12, 2020 has to have been the grimmest day for the arts in living memory. One by one, the metaphoric cultural lights went out in city after city across the U.S. In New York, first Carnegie Hall went dark, then Lincoln Center, then the whole … » Read