In June, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and Deborah Borda, president and CEO of the New York Philharmonic, got together over Zoom to chat, and their conversation turned to an idea Costanzo had about musicians giving concerts from the back of … » Read

When Wigmore Hall Artistic Director John Gilhooly announced on May 12, 2020 , that London’s premiere chamber music venue would be mounting a series of 20 lunchtime concerts to be broadcast from an empty hall throughout June, the classical … » Read

The catalyst for Long Beach Opera’s inventive pandemic pivot was the need to raise funds. "We’ve always been an unconventional company, but until last year we had been doing very conventional galas, where you ask people to purchase a … » Read

Closed to the public from March until July and reliant annually on around £50 million from box office alone, the U.K.’s largest opera company stood to lose a great deal this year, but its response has been significant. From March to … » Read

The coronavirus pandemic has seen performers becoming stage managers and camera crews, but the singers of UK-based choral foundation VOCES8 went one step further and reinvented themselves as impresarios as well. Running for ten weeks from August … » Read

Since last March, when California first went into lockdown because of the coronavirus, “Keeping Live Music Alive” has been the theme of Mainly Mozart in San Diego. Forced to cancel its annual orchestra festival in June, as well as a … » Read

In the Year 2020, performing artists and the stages on which they were trained to ply their trade have been devastated—financially, artistically, emotionally. Devastated but, in a great many cases, not defeated. If there has been anything … » Read

Professional musicians often have interests beyond their musicmaking, but few can match the timeliness of Mark Almond’s sideline. The 40-year-old Englishman, the San Francisco Symphony’s (SFS) associate principal French horn r since … » Read

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The organizers of an indoor music festival in Barcelona to test the effectiveness of same-day coronavirus screening said Wednesday that preliminary results indicate there was zero transmission inside the venue. The … » Read

Musicians of all stripes in Great Britain have known for well over three years that if Brexit became a reality, their professional lives would suddenly become considerably more difficult. Within days of the June 2016 referendum approving Great … » Read