Esa-Pekka Salonen will have to wait a few more months to start his tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony. On a day rife with fall season cancellations, SFS has joined the crowd, bringing the virtual curtain down on the rest of … » Read

It’s been quite a day for New York’s major performing arts venues. First,  Lincoln Center cancelled its fall season, followed within the hour by New York City Ballet , and now, at the end of an already wretched day, Carnegie … » Read

The shoes just keep dropping. Within minutes of Lincoln Center’s cancellation of its fall season, the New York City Ballet followed suit. Programming for September 22-October 18 has been erased from the schedule, as have all of the … » Read

The presenting arm of Lincoln Center is following its tenants’ lead and shutting down all programming through February, 2021. That includes the Great Performers Series and the White Light Festival, plus any activity in the 2020/21 David … » Read

Klaus Mäkelä, at age 24 already the chief conductor and artistic advisor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (as of August 1) and principal guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, has just added another position to his … » Read

The first post-lockdown performance at Barcelona’s Liceu opera house next Monday, June 22—the “Concert for the Biocene”—will play before a most unusual audience. As conceptualized by the artist Eugenio Ampudia, the … » Read

With Payroll Protection Plan (PPP) funds running out, organizations everywhere are moving into the next stage of survival mode. The Minnesota Orchestra for one has announced that full time staff and musicians will take a pay cut of 20 percent. … » Read

What a difference six weeks makes. The May 3 Bang on a Can online marathon was a generally consoling event, reflective, but full of hope for some kind of return to normality. Since then a lot has happened, little of it hopeful, which at times … » Read

Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group, has tapped Rebecca Allen to become president of renowned British record label EMI, now rebranded from Virgin EMI; Virgin will fall under the EMI umbrella. … » Read

British conductor Alpesh Chauhan comes to the Birmingham Opera Company as music director as of July 1. He joins Artistic Director Graham Vick at the helm. Chauhan, a native of Birmingham, made his U.K. opera debut in 2019 with the company, … » Read