The Festival has just announced that it is "suspended." Following is the Festival's own announcement, posted verbatim in the interest of time. It is marked March 31. » Read

Two more festivals have cancelled their upcoming seasons, both of them key players in the realm of contemporary music. The Aldeburgh Festival, founded in 1948 by composer Benjamin Britten, tenor Peter Pears, and librettist/producer Eric Crozier, … » Read

What do you do when you find yourself sitting around in airports, on planes, or in hotel bedrooms? If you’re international concert pianist Stephen Hough, you get out a notebook and jot down ideas. For years, many of his musings—or … » Read

On March 26 the board of regents of the University of Michigan (UM) approved the dismissal of the disgraced opera star David Daniels from his tenured position in the School of Music. Daniels’s fall from the heights of international fame as … » Read

In early March the leaders of the Skagit Valley Chorale, located about an hour from Seattle, decided to proceed with their weekly rehearsal, despite the growing threat posed by the coronavirus. Sixty of the choir’s 121 members showed up for … » Read

The Canadian Opera Company has cancelled the remainder of its season, inclusive of Aida , The Flying Dutchman , a free concert series, a fundraiser, and all else, due to concerns over COVID-19. Its two main venues, the Four Seasons Center for the … » Read

In an interview with a local New York City news channel, Met Opera General Manager Peter Gelb discussed how the company was coping with its lost season , due to COVID-19. He mentioned the terms for the 1,000 full-time furloughed union workers and … » Read

Timing can be everything. On the same day that the Kennedy Center received news it was to receive $25m as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), the Center’s president, Deborah Rutter, informed the 96 … » Read

We will be updating this list twice weekly. Please note that Central European Time (CET) is currently six hours ahead of U.S. Eastern Time. Contact editor@musicalamerica.com .   Monday, March 30 Noon CET: Staatsoper unter den Linden. … » Read

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has come up with an ingenious way to engage with its audience in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. At 9pm each night, members of the ensemble post short excerpts of works by Bach and others online via … » Read