The Grange Park Opera has announced plans for a 2024 production of Krishna , a never-before-performed opera by Sir John Tavener. The largely unknown opera, completed in 2005, exists only in manuscript form. Prince Charles, a friend of the … » Read

Upper Manhattan’s venerable community music school, the Bloomingdale School of Music, is about to receive some much-deserved exposure on NBC’s George to the Rescue . “George” is George Oliphant, Emmy award-winning host of … » Read

Zachary Lewis, staff music critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer since 2007, has been laid off as part of a newsroom purge of 22 journalists. Apparently the newspaper has had most of its reportage moved to what is described as its … » Read

Charles, “Charlie” Wade is the new VP of marketing for the Philadelphia Orchestra, filling a position that had been vacant for about a year. His predecessor was Janice Hay, now director of marketing & communications for the Depaul … » Read

Individual artists and small to midsize organizations with annual budgets of less than $15m will be eligible for emergency relief from the newly created COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL fund. A three-pronged partnership among Philadelphia’s Office of … » Read

Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO), has recently made a compelling case for much greater governmental support for the UK’s musicians and symphony orchestras as they fight to survive the coronavirus … » Read

Yesterday, the American Ballet Theater announced the cancellation of its Spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Today, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center threw in the towel for the season, and now, with the Met and New York … » Read

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season, moving its closing date up from May 10. CEO Chad Smith estimates losses at about $10 million, also the amount that his counterpart at the New York Philharmonic (and … » Read

On March 27th, while Russia was finally getting serious about social distancing, and closed cultural institutions began to beef up their online presence, the winners of Casta Diva, the prestigious Russian opera awards, were announced for the year … » Read

Like many of their pandemic-plagued colleagues around the world, the 88 musicians that comprise the Seattle Symphony will be out of work temporarily beginning April 13. With programming suspended through May 31, the orchestra was facing losses of … » Read