The city’s philanthropic community just threw a $7.25m lifeline to the beleaguered Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). More than a dozen gifts totaling $6m will enable the cash-strapped organization to pay all its outstanding bills, balance … » Read

As wildfires continue to devastate Australia, destroying more than two thousand homes and acreage comparable in size to the state of Indiana, the Sydney Opera House over the weekend illuminated its iconic sails to pay tribute to those fighting … » Read

The New York Musical Festival (NYMF), where, since 2004,  some 400 musicals—including Next to Normal and [title of show] ––first saw the light of day, has filed for bankruptcy.  Since August, West Hyler, the producing … » Read

The Zurich Festival will see its final iteration this summer, June 5 – 28. The Festival Foundation, founded in 1996 by the city’s four major arts organizations-- the Tonhalle, Schauspielhaus, Kunsthaus, and Zurich Opera—reports … » Read

Barely two weeks into the New Year, California’s new “ gig work law, ” Assembly Bill 5 has claimed its first victim. After conferring with legal counsel, the Island City Opera has postponed its March 2020 production of Dame … » Read

The Cambridge-based Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has become the associate ensemble at Venice’s reconstructed Teatro San Cassiano (TSC), said to be the first public opera house when it opened in 1637. Upon completion of the new venue, the … » Read

PARIS (AFP) -- Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the "Sun King" Louis XIV. The opera -- one of the oldest and most … » Read

A partnership between the San Francisco Ballet School (SFB School) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) will include movement classes for Conservatory students, music classes for SFB School students, and choreographer-composer … » Read

Union musicians counting on their pensions to keep them solvent in their years of retirement are in for some bad news. On Tuesday, the American Federation of Musicians Employers’ Pension Fund—which covers about 50,000 free-lancers, … » Read

The number of applicants to the 18 th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition topped 500 for the first time in the almost 100-year history of the event. The number has been growing steadily over the last decade alone, from 353 in 2010. … » Read