After a year as associate artistic director of the Public Theater, Shanta Thake is to take the top artistic position at Lincoln Center, overseeing its various series and festivals. The position has been vacant since Jane Moss departed in 2020. In … » Read

After a slugglish start in April , the Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced that its Shuttered Venue Operators Grants (SVOG) are finally getting out of the building and into the hands of the concert halls, movie theaters, museums, … » Read

Has Camille Saint-Saëns been “shamefully neglected and overlooked?” Stephen Moss, writing for The Guardian , certainly thinks so. This year marks the centenary of the death of this prolific French composer—his oeuvre … » Read

Loony or lascivious? That is the dilemma, argues critic Joshua Kosman, posed by the Venetian composer Francesco Cavalli’s 1667 opera Eliogabalo . Presented by the West Edge Opera at the outdoor Bruns Amphitheater in Orinda, CA, through Aug. … » Read

For a New Yorker cooped up in a one-bedroom apartment for the last 18 months, a recent visit to the Colorado Music Festival (CMF) in the mountains of Boulder, CO, proved an oasis, with strains of rehearsals by day and concerts by night, emanating … » 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

For months now, intrepid presenters of opera have dared to break the silence imposed by the coronavirus—always cautiously and sometimes to houses purposely empty—by offering live performances. Only this week, however, did full-scale … » Read

When Chinese-born pianist Tianxu An returns to the Curtis Institute of Music in September, he will have advanced his career by leaps and bounds under the least likely of circumstances—the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March 2020—when … » Read

For two weeks beginning Aug. 6, Bard College will present “Nadia Boulanger and Her World,” a series of 12 concerts accompanied by pre-recorded panel discussions and a scholarly publication exploring the life of the most renowned … » Read

VERBIER, Switzerland—Still convalescing after the lost summer of 2020, the Swiss festival’s ambitious recovery festival has been hampered by travel-thwarted cancellations and Covid-related withdrawals. Most critical among the latter … » Read