The Indianapolis Symphony, which has been struggling to reach a  peace of some kind with its musicians, has cancelled the coming season. The musicians and management issued a joint statement Friday afternoon: While our mutual desire is to … » Read

MILAN--After three months of silence, Italy’s opera companies are making a comeback. The lockdown in Europe has, for now, brought the health crisis under control, so the government gave socially distanced live performances the green light … » Read

The Kennedy Center has announced a vast array of online and live-but-safely-distanced performances for fall 2020, as well as a few events in 2021. The National Symphony Orchestra offers three concerts in December, two under Music Director … » Read

As previously reported , the Salzburg Festival, dramatically revised, will feature only two rather than the customary eight to 10 operas—Mozart’s Così fan Tutte and Strauss’s Elektra . The latter production, set to … » Read

Unlike many other summer events in Europe, the Salzburg Festival is proceeding with a schedule, albeit shortened, of live performances. “We decided to wait, and developed a series of scenarios for how to [still] make it,” Lukas … » Read

Munich-based critic Markus Thiel looks over the possible candidates to succeed the late Mariss Jansons as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, a decision to be made by next fall, he says. First choice is Simon Rattle, whose … » Read

Orchestras may have fallen silent but, with lockdown restrictions slowly easing, chamber ensembles have been slowly re-emerging—if not in the concert hall, then at least in the recording studio. The result has been a steady flow of new … » Read

The Caramoor Festival’s July 9 th streamed program Tom-Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro has drawn fresh, long-overdue attention to the African American composer, novelist, and racial equality activist Shirley Graham DuBois. Born in 1896 … » Read

The Los Angeles Master Chorale has introduced a new twist to pandemic-induced season cancellations. Rather than discarding months of hard work spent planning its 2020-21 season, the group is simply postponing everything for a year. The first … » Read

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has cancelled most of its fall 2020 concerts but, unlike the majority of its colleagues, has opted to hold out for the holidays, announcing that it will resume events after November 29. (Most U.S. ensembles … » Read