MILAN--For the 2020/21 edition of the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence, superintendent Alexander Pereira has pulled out all the stops. Star-studded programs feature names like Anna Netrebko, Riccardo Muti and Zubin Mehta, but one in … » Read

Musical America was curious as to why Alexander Pereira, in designing his first season as intendant of Maggio Musicale Fiorintino, was intent on having James Levine on the roster. Following is a transcription of his conversation with … » Read

Andrés Holder , recent general manager of the Washington Ballet, is the new executive director of the Boston Children’s Chorus, an organization comprising 13 choirs from 110 different Boston-area zip codes. He succeeds Anthony … » Read

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) has cancelled its 2020-21 season. “As devastating as it is to lose our subscription season,” the TSO’s CEO Matthew Loden noted in a press release, “we are also eager to find unique … » Read

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 1,144 new awards totaling more than $84mn to organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and each of the five U.S. territories. These grants are unrelated to the special funding … » Read

RAVENNA, Italy — Nine musicians from the Syrian diaspora in Europe played Sunday in the 24th friendship concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, this year at the Paestum archaeological site in southern Italy, but the coronavirus pandemic blocked … » 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

As they've watched their European counterparts slowly begin to open up post-lockdown, UK arts groups have increasingly despaired over the viability of their future without government intervention. Sunday evening, they got it, with the … » Read

ROME (AP) — Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as The … » Read

On June 28, the First Baptist Church in Dallas, which boasts 14,000 members, celebrated Freedom Sunday, with Vice President Mike Pence as the featured speaker. The “freedom” being celebrated was an amalgam of religion infused with … » Read