The National Concert Hall in Taipei shut down indefinitely today after visiting Australian composer Brett Dean [pictured] was diagnosed with coronavirus on his return to Brisbane. He is being treated in a hospital in Adelaide. Some of the … » Read

Composer/conductor John Adams is to be the music director for the 2021 Ojai Festival (June 10-13, 2021), the event’s official 75 th anniversary and Adams’s second term as music director (his first was in 1993). He replaces the … » Read

MILAN--As northern Italy struggles to contain the local coronavirus outbreak— now the third largest in the world—entire towns have been cordoned off (including Cremona, the home of Stradivarius, is in partial lockdown ). On February … » Read

As it becomes increasingly common for large performance organizations to endow their top executive’s position, the San Francisco Opera general director post—occupied since 2016 by Matthew Shilvock--is to be named for Tad and Dianne … » Read

Financial difficulties have led two Chicago-area classical ensembles—the Lake Forest Symphony and the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra—to cancel their 2019-2020 schedules. Timothy Corpus, executive director of the Lake Forest Symphony, … » Read

In what was to have been its first international tour under Gianandrea Noseda’s music directorship, the National Symphony Orchestra has cancelled the rest of its March concerts in Asia. Earlier this month, it cancelled the China … » Read

José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, minister of culture for Spain, the birthplace and biggest fan base for Placido Domingo, has disinvited his country’s native son from appearing at the National Theater of Zarzuela on May 14 and 15. … » Read

As news arrives this morning from the Berlin Philharmonic that, “on short notice,” Yannick Nézet-Séguin has cancelled this week’s (Feb. 27-29) performances of the Mahler Third Symphony, with Elina Garanca as … » Read

On Saturday night, conductor Carlo Rizzi [pictured] received special applause when, on hearing a phone in the auditorium, he stopped the performance of Welsh National Opera's new production of Verdi's Les Vêpres Sicilienes— not once, … » Read

By the end of 2020, when the U.K.’s exit from the European Union is complete, artists and athletes from the E.U. who wish to ply their trade in the U.K. will be bound by the same rules that currently apply to their non-E.U. peers from … » Read