Two significant “firsts” mark the New York Philharmonic’s upcoming season: the first time playing together in 18 months and the first in memory to perform outside of its home venue for an entire season. While (re) construction … » Read

For the Berlin Philharmonic’s 2021-22 season, which launches at the end of August, Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko has chosen the theme “Lost Generation,” focusing on composers whose voices were silenced by the Nazi takeover in … » Read

For purveyors and fans of live music and theater in the U.K., a four-week delay in response to the appearance of the more transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 has pushed  opening for live performances from June 21 to July 19. Lucy Noble, … » Read

When Magda Krance, the Lyric Opera’s director of media relations, retires at the end of June, she will leave behind a world markedly different from the one she entered 30 years ago. Gone are Chicago’s multiple daily newspapers, each … » Read

MILAN (AP) — Before the pandemic, students at Italy’s oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move “closer, closer, closer” when they played together. “Because you need to hear each other,″ … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

Opening in May, Opera Theater of St. Louis became one of the first companies in the U.S. to offer the semblance of a season to a live audience. The al fresco venue, with 263 socially distanced seats, is a makeshift facility in a parking lot … » Read

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, est. 1906, has named Jaime Martín as successor to Sir Andrew Davis as its chief conductor. He starts in 2022, three years subsequent to Davis’s departure . Stateside, Martin is best known as music … » Read

The stroke that sidelined the 60-year-old Welsh conductor Grant Llewellyn last summer took three days to develop. What began as a “funny feeling” gradually progressed to the point that he could hardly walk or carry out basic life … » Read

The Juilliard School’s projected annual tuition raise of four percent—from $49,260 to $51,230—has led students to occupy parts of its Lincoln Center campus and then protest on West 65 th Street after they were barred from the … » Read