Yesterday, the American Ballet Theater announced the cancellation of its Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Today, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center threw in the towel for the season, and now, with the Met and New York … » Read

We will update this list weekly. Please contact editor@musicalamerica.com with any updates. This list is current as of April 8, 2020. New entries are marked with a (+).     Festivals Cancelled American Dance Festival Bach Choir of … » Read

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has cancelled its entire Boston Pops season, scheduled to run May 16–June 13 and programmed to celebrate conductor Keith Lockhart’s 25 th -anniversary. This marks the second time the season has been … » Read

Since its founding in 1945, the MAV Orchestra in Budapest has taken classical music on the road, literally traveling by rail to small towns throughout Hungary to perform. In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, its players are giving a new … » Read

+ Connotes new entry as of April 13. We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that Central European Time (CET) is currently six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time. Contact editor@musicalamerica.com .   Wednesday, April 8 Noon CET: … » Read

MILAN--The Italian government has declared all theaters, cinemas and museums remain closed due to Covid-19 until April 13 and surely into May. When the stay-at-home ruling was first passed a month ago, Dario Franceschini, the Culture Minister, … » Read

A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a 2019 suit against Universal Music Group (UMG) for the loss of over 100,000 audio recordings in a 2008 warehouse fire in Hollywood. The artists whose work was destroyed represent a who’s who of … » Read

In some rare but welcome business-as-usual news, three orchestras have named new key conductors within the last 48 hours. Up first was Denmark’s   Odense Symphony Orchestra, which named Frenchman Pierre Bleuse as its next chief … » Read

The New York Philharmonic has been forced to reinstate the two musicians it  fired in September 2018, principal oboe Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey. Beyond citing complaints of “misconduct” by … » Read

On April 7, over 250 artists will gather online for a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s six-hour The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening for _Tunes . The brainchild of Sean Griffin, a founder of the avant-garde opera company Opera Povera, the … » Read