The Salzburg Festival will honor Riccardo Muti’s 80 th birthday this summer, as well as the 50 th anniversary of his Festival debut. “I’ve gone every year but one since I started in 1971,” he told Musical America when … » Read

The pandemic has bollixed the Oregon Bach Festival’s plans for the upcoming summer season. “The health trends and data are telling us to consider alternative ways of serving our community,” wrote Sabrina Madison-Cannon, Dean at … » Read

“It has nothing to do with whatever the Boston Symphony decides about Tanglewood this summer,” reports the Berkshire Eagle , but the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) will not operate live for the second summer in a row, … » Read

The Black Opera Alliance (BOA) and TRG Arts have joined forces to advance BOA’s efforts to advance racial equity and representation of the African diaspora and promote reform in all aspects of the world of opera. Formed since the onset of … » Read

James Darrah, artistic director of Omaha’s annual ONE Festival , is to take the same title with Long Beach Opera, another entity known for bold moves and experimentation. Darrah is well known in new opera circles, having directed the world … » 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

If you’re lucky enough to have sisters, prepare to be shaken by Houston Grand Opera’s newest digital offering: Songs for Murdered Sisters. Composed by Jake Heggie, it is set to eight poems by acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood. … » Read

As the dust begins to settle from last week’s unsurprising decision to kill plans for London’s new concert hal l, the British press is beginning to weigh in on the matter. “It was a tough and questionable sell from the … » Read

Covid-19 has made the past year an unmitigated disaster for the classical music world. But, argues Peter Dobrin, classical music critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer , “an age of new possibility” has also emerged. Previously, he … » Read

London’s much-discussed  new concert hall   isn’t going to happen. On Feb. 18, the City of London officially announced that “given the current unprecedented circumstances, the ambitious plans for a Centre for Music … » Read