Hope for the dissipation of the coronavirus continues to fade, as orchestras and opera companies announce the cancellations of their subscription series. Festivals, too, are beginning to follow suit. Among them is the Opera Theater of St. Louis, … » Read

The Indianapolis Symphony, whose performances have been cancelled through May 27, has  placed its musicians and stagehands on unpaid furlough and laid off about half of its administrative staff. Healthcare coverage will continue through May. … » Read

Score One for the musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra musicians, the first group of employees to be furloughed by Kennedy Center on the very day the CARES Act was signed. A statement received from Edgardo Malaga Jr., President of the … » Read

The New York Philharmonic has been forced to reinstate the two musicians it  fired in September 2018, principal oboe Liang Wang and associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey. Beyond citing complaints of “misconduct” by … » Read

Albert K. (“Nick”) Webster, chief administrator of the New York Philharmonic from 1975-1990, died on April 3. He was 82. Webster arrived at the Philharmonic in 1962 as assistant to Managing Director Carlos Mosely. A graduate of … » Read

In some rare but welcome business-as-usual news, three orchestras have named new key conductors within the last 48 hours. Up first was Denmark’s   Odense Symphony Orchestra, which named Frenchman Pierre Bleuse as its next chief … » Read

On April 7, over 250 artists will gather online for a performance of Pauline Oliveros’s six-hour The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening for _Tunes . The brainchild of Sean Griffin, a founder of the avant-garde opera company Opera Povera, the … » Read

At a press conference today, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced a ban on all public events in the country through the end of June. As a result, the following organizations have announced that they are shuttered for the season. Others, … » Read

With Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s order today that all public events are banned through the end of June, Cecilia Bartoli, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, scheduled for May 29 to June 1, has announced the … » Read

During the past several weeks, Brown Paper Tickets (BPT), a grass-roots ticketing alternative to such industry giants as Ticketmaster, has encountered a perfect storm. The wave of concert cancellations due to the pandemic and resulting requests … » Read