A total number of 148 people are under mandatory home quarantine for 14 days as a result of composer and violist Brett Dean's preparations for and performances with the Taiwan Philharmonic February 28 and March 1. An additional 272 have been … » Read

All performances at the Bayerische Staatsoper [pictured] have been cancelled up to April 19. The company reports it will make selected performances available as a live stream or video-on-demand. The former are already scheduled for a concert on … » Read

Berlin Culture Senator Klaus Lederer has closed the city’s larger state theaters, concert halls, and opera houses to halt the spread of the coronavirus.   As of Monday, Germany had registered 1,139 coronavirus cases with two … » Read

Note: Information in this article regarding U.S. presenters, first posted four days ago, is no longer up-to-date. See top story, March 13. The Lyon Opera Festival, March 13-April 2, is banning Italian journalists from attending. It's not clear … » Read

The 52 nd edition of the Blossom Music Festival will offer 19 concerts between the Fourth of July and Labor Day weekends, a mix of an array of genres including rock, film score, and Broadway. On the classical front, Edo de Waart, Herbert … » Read

On Mar. 6 Judge P. Kevin Castel of Federal District Court in Manhattan issued a ruling blocking an attempt to enter the Woody Guthrie folk anthem “This Land is Your Land” in the public domain.  The same lawyers that had earlier … » Read

The Cleveland Orchestra has cancelled its tour of Europe and Abu Dhabi, scheduled for March 16 through April 5. Seven concerts were on the itinerary, one each in Linz’s Brucknerhaus, Vienna’s Musikverein, and the Philharmonie de … » Read

San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed has called for the closure of the War Memorial Performing Arts Center, including Davies Symphony Hall, home of the San Francisco Symphony and the SF Ballet. Effective March 7 all performances have been … » Read

A New Jersey Superior Court has tossed out two lawsuits challenging the legality of Rider University’s attempts to merge Westminster Choir College (WCC) operations with Rider’s. WCC and Rider merged in 1991, and for the  last … » Read

On June 4, 5, and 6, the Berlin Philharmonic will honor the late Mariss Jansons, who died on Dec. 1. The Latvian maestro, an honorary member of the orchestra, had been scheduled to conduct on those dates. “Mariss Jansons . . . was a highly … » Read