The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF), one of Wyoming’s premier arts organizations, has cancelled its summer festival. In its place, Festival organizers are planning a three-day intensive in late August of filmed performances—subject … » Read

MILAN--Italy’s theaters have been shuttered since February 23, but many have been busily devising plans for how they will eventually reopen in accordance with coronavirus regulations. An indication of when that might be allowed to happen … » Read

Miah Im, who heads the music staff for the Los Angeles Opera, has joined the Houston Grand Opera as music director of the HGO Studio (its training program). She also joins the general company’s casting committee and will plan the … » Read

Even as summer festivals in Europe and the U.S. announce cancellations, some musical organizations in Shanghai and Hong Kong are starting to offer performances in front of live—if masked and socially distanced—audiences in efforts to … » Read

London’s Wigmore Hall and the BBC have announced a ray of sunshine amidst the dark clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty hour-long concerts will be performed onstage and livestreamed on the venue’s website, as well as broadcast on … » Read

Peter Biggs, a former CEO of the advertising agency BBDO in Melbourne, is the new CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; he has been serving as interim since December 2019 , stepping into the position of Christopher Blake, who retired in … » Read

Following hot on the heels of operatic galas and new-music marathons from the Met Opera and Bang on a Can, U.K.-based Gramophone magazine came up with the classical music all-star equivalent, a three-hour May 10 virtual concert by 30-or-so of the … » Read

In a move that may well foreshadow decisions to be made by other performing arts organizations, Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater has decided that discretion is the better part of valor; it will not begin its next season until March 2021. … » Read

Collectors abhor missing pieces, so when Linda Murray became the curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts (NYPLPA) in 2015, it was to be expected that she ask, “Why don’t we … » Read

The office of Austria’s Governor Wilfried Haslauer has confirmed that a special committee of federal, state, city, and tourism representatives will meet on May 25 to decide the ultimate fate of the Salzburg Festival 2020. “On the one … » Read