The financially challenged Metropolitan Opera is furloughing 41 administrative employees, nearly 20 percent of its full-time staff, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Met said Tuesday (May 5) that the furloughs are temporary and will … » Read

The Boston Pops has cleverly repurposed John Williams’s score for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Summon the Heroes , as a tribute to today’s heroes—the medical personnel, police, grocery and transportation workers, and first … » Read

On Sunday, May 10, Gramophone will host a virtual gala featuring past Gramophone Classical Music Awards winners performing short works from their homes. Viewers will be asked to donate to Help Musicians, a nearly century-old charity that offers … » Read

The pandemic has shuttered live performances at the Glimmerglass Festival this summer. A season that would usually include more than 100 events attracting over 35,000 ticket buyers will now exist only online. Ticket buyers may request a refund or … » Read

With Chicago having reached a milestone of 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus, and the city still in lockdown, it’s hardly surprising to hear that the Grant Park Festival, set to run June 10 to August 15, has been cancelled. This marks its … » Read

Paris Opera is looking at losses of 40 million euros ($43 million) this year, Director Stéphane Lissner warned on French public radio today, and may not reopen until 2021. The company was already under siege by Paris’s … » Read

Glyndebourne has cancelled its Festival 2020 in its entirety, having already postponed its opening by nearly two months; last March it announced it would be opening July 14 rather than the original May 21, but it is not to be. Cancelled in the … » Read

Last week it was the four-hour Met Gala, and now contemporary music powerhouse Bang on a Can (BOAC) has embraced the new normal with an inspiriting six-hour May 3 online marathon. “We are all waiting for the world to heal, but until it … » Read

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music has gone to Anthony Davis for his opera The Central Park Five . The opera, which features a libretto by Richard Wesley, was cited by the Prize committee as “a courageous operatic work, marked by powerful … » Read

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott , artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, is to serve in the same position at Santa Fe Pro Musica. She moves into the post over the next two years as successor to Music Director Tom O’Connor, who … » Read