The Minnesota Orchestra has announced plans to restructure its 2019-20 season. The orchestra announced that the restructuring is designed to delay all concerts until August 2020. In the press statement, the organization noted noted, “The revised concert calendar reschedules numerous performances and cancels all others through June 15, 2020; postpones all Summer at Orchestra Hall 2020 concerts and activities until {…}
The Wiener Staatsoper is organizing a gala concert “We Play for Austria” on Sunday, April 19, 2020 (8:15 p.m. on ORF III and on Radio Ö1) and will be the start of three live music evenings from the ORF RadioKulturhaus. The concerts were organzied by ORF III in cooperation with u. a. mit dem Haus am Ring, the Volksoper Vienna {…}
The 72nd Festival Aix-en-Provence has canceled the 2020 edition due to the restrictions imposed by the President of the Republic on April 13. In a press statement Pierre Audi, the festival’s director, noted, “This decision was very difficult to make, but our wish is above all to guarantee the safety of the spectators and spectators, artists and teams of the {…}
Chancellor Angela Merkel has extended Germany’s lockdown until May 3 as a result of the coronavirus. Merkel announced in a video that Germany would maintain restrictions and would slowly open non-essential businesses after May 3. However, theaters and sporting events would be banned until August 31, 2020 due to the high risk these venues pose. The new restrictions will undoubtedly {…}
Several opera stars from Belgium and the UK have joined forces to send an online message of optimism and hope in honor of the heroes of the Belgian Resistance. Over 150 musicians recorded themselves in their living rooms singing the finale of the opera “PUSH,” the choral number “Ma Vie n’est que Miracles.” Among those performing in the clip are {…}
Great Performances is set to present the U.S. broadcast premiere of Easter Sunday’s concert, “Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope, A Great Performances Special.” The concert will premiere on in the New York metro area on Thursday, April 16 at 8:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN. The Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli gave a solo performance at the historic Duomo, the cathedral of Milan, {…}
The governments of Cataluña and the Gran Canaria have announced plans to give money to cultural institutes. The Cataluña plan will give a 10 million Euros line of credit to the Institut Català de Finances and an 8 million Euros line of credit to the affected cultural institutions. The line of credit known as “Impacto COVID” will help pay off {…}
The Bolshoi Theatre and Google have announced the continuation of a series of broadcasts of the theater’s “gold collection” performances on YouTube. The theater announced that from April 15 to May 11, 2020, viewers from around the world will be able to to see recordings of ballets and operas and concerts by soloists of the Bolshoi Opera. Each performance will {…}
(Credit: Roey Yohai Studios) The Americas Society will present a concert featuring several major artists from the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires’ Instituto Superior de Arte on April 16, 2020 at 6: 30 p.m. EDT. Among the artists to be featured in this week’s program are Oriana Favaro, Santiago Ballerini, and Florencia Machado; all three have been major artists at {…}
The Verbier Festival has announced that is is launching a new fund to provide support for those hit hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak. The fund intends to help freelance, self-employed and newly unemployed Verbier Festival Academy alumni including solois, chamber and orchestral instrumentalists, singers, conductors, as well as alumni Festival production and technical crew facing lost income during this challenging {…}
(Credit: Matt Madison-Clark) Renowned composer Kamala Sankaram has joined forces with librettist Rob Handel to create “all decisions will be made by consensus,” the first Zoom opera. The work is set to premiere via the streaming platform on April 24, 020 at 1 p.m. with subsequent showcases set for April 25 and 26 at 7 p.m. and 3 p.m. respectively. {…}