The Banff Center International String Quartet Festival, originally scheduled to take place around the annual competition, August 29-September 3, will instead proceed with performances and talks online, September 1 - 5, 2020. Director Barry … » Read

The Indianapolis Symphony, which has been struggling to reach a  peace of some kind with its musicians, has cancelled the coming season. The musicians and management issued a joint statement Friday afternoon: While our mutual desire is to … » Read

MILAN--After three months of silence, Italy’s opera companies are making a comeback. The lockdown in Europe has, for now, brought the health crisis under control, so the government gave socially distanced live performances the green light … » Read

The Kennedy Center has announced a vast array of online and live-but-safely-distanced performances for fall 2020, as well as a few events in 2021. The National Symphony Orchestra offers three concerts in December, two under Music Director … » Read

As previously reported , the Salzburg Festival, dramatically revised, will feature only two rather than the customary eight to 10 operas—Mozart’s Così fan Tutte and Strauss’s Elektra . The latter production, set to … » Read

Unlike many other summer events in Europe, the Salzburg Festival is proceeding with a schedule, albeit shortened, of live performances. “We decided to wait, and developed a series of scenarios for how to [still] make it,” Lukas … » Read

Munich-based critic Markus Thiel looks over the possible candidates to succeed the late Mariss Jansons as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a decision to be made by next fall, he says. First choice is Simon Rattle, whose … » Read

Orchestras may have fallen silent but, with lockdown restrictions slowly easing, chamber ensembles have been slowly re-emerging—if not in the concert hall, then at least in the recording studio. The result has been a steady flow of new … » Read

The Caramoor Festival’s July 9 th streamed program Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro has drawn fresh, long-overdue attention to the African American composer, novelist, and racial equality activist Shirley Graham DuBois. Born in 1896 … » Read

The Los Angeles Master Chorale has introduced a new twist to pandemic-induced season cancellations. Rather than discarding months of hard work spent planning its 2020-21 season, the group is simply postponing everything for a year. The first … » Read