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

Peter Mattei, Musical America’s  2020 Vocalist of the Year , is winning rave reviews for his current portrayal of Wozzeck in Alban Berg’s modernist masterpiece at the Metropolitan Opera. Heard more often in roles such as Don … » Read

Classical music statisticians will be happy to note that, based on events listed on the London-based Bachtrack for the last year, the annual stats for "busiest," translated by Bachtrack as "top," are in. Among other not-so-trivial news is that, … » Read