As the viability of a fall 2020 concert and opera season in the U.S. becomes increasingly unlikely, the last hold-outs of the summer season are finally coming to terms with reality. Earlier this week, the Santa Fe Opera and Santa Fe Chamber Music … » Read

These are banner times for opera online , but viewers would do well to check out BR Klassic’s new Die Walküre (four CDs) with Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (which follows their Das Rheingold from 2015). The … » Read

As theaters and concert halls struggle to craft safe ways to resume operations, one of the great unknowns is how potential audiences will respond. Studies from two research firms—Shugoll Research and IMPACTS Research & … » Read

The Grand Teton Music Festival (GTMF), one of Wyoming’s premier arts organizations, has cancelled its summer festival. In its place, Festival organizers are planning a three-day intensive in late August of filmed performances—subject … » Read

MILAN--Italy’s theaters have been shuttered since February 23, but many have been busily devising plans for how they will eventually reopen in accordance with coronavirus regulations. An indication of when that might be allowed to happen … » Read

Miah Im, who heads the music staff for the Los Angeles Opera, has joined the Houston Grand Opera as music director of the HGO Studio (its training program). She also joins the general company’s casting committee and will plan the … » Read

Even as summer festivals in Europe and the U.S. announce cancellations, some musical organizations in Shanghai and Hong Kong are starting to offer performances in front of live—if masked and socially distanced—audiences in efforts to … » Read

London’s Wigmore Hall and the BBC have announced a ray of sunshine amidst the dark clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty hour-long concerts will be performed onstage and livestreamed on the venue’s website, as well as broadcast on … » Read

Peter Biggs, a former CEO of the advertising agency BBDO in Melbourne, is the new CEO of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; he has been serving as interim since December 2019 , stepping into the position of Christopher Blake, who retired in … » Read

Following hot on the heels of operatic galas and new-music marathons from the Met Opera and Bang on a Can, U.K.-based Gramophone magazine came up with the classical music all-star equivalent, a three-hour May 10 virtual concert by 30-or-so of the … » Read