London’s Southbank Center, the U.K.’s largest arts and cultural organization, is joining the growing roster of performance venues around the world that have seen the earliest moment for reopening as likely to be the spring of 2021. … » Read

Sun Valley Music Festival, which lays claim to being the nation’s largest admission-free, privately supported festival of classical music, has reimagined its 36 th annual season as an online event, possibly with much of the programming … » Read

Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is one of the few in the world to currently perform in front of a live audience. The country’s exemplary public health management of the coronavirus pandemic has allowed schools to stay open and … » Read

More and more performing arts organizations are bowing to the inevitable and giving up on a return to business in 2020. “I think 2020 is gone,” said Anna D. Shapiro, the artistic director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater … » Read

John Anderson, president of Barrett Artists, formerly Herbert Barrett Management, has decided to close the office. Between the impact of the pandemic on the field and his own desire to retire—he turns 80 in July—he’s decided, in … » Read

Lisa Richards Toney, a self-described consultant in arts management and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), is to be the new president and CEO of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP), effective July 1. She succeeds Mario … » Read

American bass John Macurdy, a stalwart at the Metropolitan Opera for nearly 40 years, died at 91 on May 7. The Detroit native stepped onto the Met’s stage 1,001 times to sing 62 different roles, from his 1962 debut in Verdi’s Un Ballo … » Read

The Salzburg Festival’s 100 th anniversary season will be a severely curtailed one, due to the Austrian government’s coronavirus containment measures. It will run from August 1 to 30. Instead of 200 events over 44 days at 16 … » Read

We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is … » Read

No one could have predicted the value of A New Century , the latest recording from the Cleveland Orchestra and the first release on its new in-house label. Conceived as the kickoff to a new, post-centennial era under Music Director Franz … » Read