The shoes just keep dropping. Last week it was the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Today it is the Los Angeles Philharmonic that is announcing the shutdown of its entire live season, specifically the Ford Theater and Walt … » Read

“In 2020, making opera suddenly got harder,” flashes the opening subtitle. True, but while the U.S. is still making do with opera at the drive-in, over in Europe the artform is taking its first steps towards a new normal. For … » Read

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, soon to be 20 years old, to rethink its business model. For the past decade, the center city arts complex, whose resident companies include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the … » Read

Mechanical engineers from the University of Minnesota are working with the Minnesota Orchestra to determine the strength and concentration of aerosols produced by brass and woodwind instruments. The primary goal is to see how these tiny … » Read

French cellist Bruno Philippe has signed with Askonas Holt for general management having previously been with l’agence, which will now represent him solely in France. A onetime prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky, Feuermann, and ARD … » 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

Testing positive for Covid-19 is not an instantaneous death sentence, rather a signal to go into quarantine and, if there are symptoms, call the doc. Jordi Savall , just on the heels of performing and recording a series of concerts in Wroclaw, … » Read

American soprano Lisette Oropesa is one of the lucky few in the opera world—she is busy singing while most of her contemporaries have been silenced by Covid-19. She recently took time away from preparing to sing Konstanze in Mozart’s … » Read

The New York Philharmonic’s contract with its musicians expired last month and negotiations are ongoing, but the players are currently earning 75 percent of base pay. All concerts have been cancelled until June. Similarly, the Boston … » Read

Music makers are three times more likely to experience anxiety and/or depression than the general public. This is the central revelation of Can Music Make You Sick: Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition , by Sally Anne Gross, an industry … » Read