With Chicago having reached a milestone of 1,000 deaths from the coronavirus, and the city still in lockdown, it’s hardly surprising to hear that the Grant Park Festival, set to run June 10 to August 15, has been cancelled. This marks its … » Read

Paris Opera is looking at losses of 40 million euros ($43 million) this year, Director Stéphane Lissner warned on French public radio today, and may not reopen until 2021. The company was already under siege by Paris’s … » Read

Glyndebourne has cancelled its Festival 2020 in its entirety, having already postponed its opening by nearly two months; last March it announced it would be opening July 14 rather than the original May 21, but it is not to be. Cancelled in the … » Read

Last week it was the four-hour Met Gala, and now contemporary music powerhouse Bang on a Can (BOAC) has embraced the new normal with an inspiriting six-hour May 3 online marathon. “We are all waiting for the world to heal, but until it … » Read

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music has gone to Anthony Davis for his opera The Central Park Five . The opera, which features a libretto by Richard Wesley, was cited by the Prize committee as “a courageous operatic work, marked by powerful … » Read

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott , artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, is to serve in the same position at Santa Fe Pro Musica. She moves into the post over the next two years as successor to Music Director Tom O’Connor, who … » Read

NEW YORK — Rosalind Elias, an American mezzo-soprano who created roles in a pair of Samuel Barber world premieres and made her Broadway debut at 81, has died. She was 90. Elias had been slowed by congestive heart failure for the past six … » Read

The flood of coronavirus cancellations continues unabated, with the Kennedy Center’s announcement today of closure through August 9, a large leap forward from the reopening date of May 22 that it was still holding onto as of three weeks … » Read

Several weeks ago, the Aspen Music Festival and School pushed its opening date ahead from July 2 to July 16, with a plan to present an abridged, six-week event, through August 23. Today, President and CEO Alan Fletcher has announced that the 2020 … » Read

The COVID-19 pandemic may have put paid to live performances, but so far it’s had little effect on the steady flow of recordings—and especially of new music—coming onto the market. Here are seven of the most interesting recent … » Read