Buscador de artículos | Coronavirus

Director artístico en Madrid ocho años y en Barcelona diecisiete, Matabosch habla sobre cantantes, directores, públicos y tener el teatro abierto durante la pandemia.

España, a diferencia de otros muchos países, ha retomado y mantenido la actividad musical de una manera continua desde el mes de junio. Repasamos, tras conversar con responsables de orquestas y teatros, las claves de esta diferencia.

Este mes echamos la vista a cómo se está desarrollando la música en vivo fuera de Europa. Las diferencias entre Asia y América no podían ser más radicales.

Cancelaciones, cambios de programas, protocolos sanitarios dentro y fuera del escenario: ofrecemos una instantánea de como la Europa musical está conviviendo con el coronavirus.

Los telones de los teatros de ópera se alzan en algunas partes del mundo para ofrecer representaciones en directo de nuevo y la soprano norteamericana nos revela cómo es cantar en un montaje de "la nueva normalidad" del Teatro Real de Madrid.

La actividad de Bachtrack se verá reducida mientras dure la pandemia. Los fundadores David y Alison Karlin explican cuál es la situación.

The violinist talks about her pandemic commissioning project as well the work she does that extends beyond performing concerts as Arco Collaborative’s artistic director and its primary performing artist.

As a theater critic, I’m prioritizing coverage of events that require Covid vaccination for all.

The terror that keeps the performing arts awake at night is that audiences won’t return because they are not confident of attending an event without risking Covid-19 infection.

New seasons are starting and classical music venues are throwing their doors open to the public. But are they also throwing caution to the wind?

The composer-in-residence at Bergen International Festival has been more productive than ever during the pandemic. She tells us how.

Keep checking here to find out what news is reaching us about classical music events around the world.

Aix-en-Provence, La Scala, Paris et maintenant le San Carlo à Naples : son parcours se lit comme un hit-parade de l'opéra mondial. Rencontre avec un homme qui n'a pas peur de dire ce qu'il pense.

Many arts leaders have shared their thoughts with us over this pandemic year. Here are some reflections on what's happened and what's coming up.

We speak to the CEO of Budapest's premier arts centre: a film and opera director whose past includes spells as a painter and structural engineer. 

As a streaming platform, how do you stand out in such a competitive market? What do you offer audiences beyond pointing cameras and microphones at musicians in an empty room? 

Covent Garden's Director of Opera talks about directing opera, moving from a start-up to a behemoth and how The Royal Opera hopes to exit from the pandemic.

The Artistic Director of London's multi-genre hall gives us insights into how she builds a programme, about keeping concerts going during the pandemic and hopes for next year's London Unwrapped.

Confinement, gestes barrière, couvre-feu, reconfinement... Les épreuves se succèdent pour un monde du spectacle vivant qui, pourtant, garde la tête haute et multiplie les miracles.

In Germany, orchestras and theatres start their new seasons, with unique challenges for audiences and musicians.

As Covid-19 forces the traditional US music summer camps to go digital, students and teachers tell us about the experience.

Lugano will be hosting the first major post-Covid concert with a full audience. Artistic Director Etienne Reymond tells us about the concert environment in Switzerland.

With an efficient safety concept the Salzburg Festival was able to take place this summer – in a significantly slimmed-down version, and against all odds.

Jenny Camilleri reports from Amsterdam on the response to the pandemic in the Netherlands, where the 1.5 metre rule is sacred.

A personal reflection on the world of streaming through lockdown... and how the attitude to free content needs to change. 

One of the most influential figures in chamber music talks about Wigmore Hall's efforts to survive the pandemic and the post-pandemic future.

With smaller instrumental and vocal events tentatively creeping back into the sunshine, we speak to the PERFORM study principal to look at what happens next to the science of enabling a broader return to performance.

As our government endeavours to help the arts recover from COVID-19, what should our priorities be? We argue for a rebalancing of the objectives aimed at spreading the arts more widely.

Le directeur artistique du Ballet Royal de Flandres nous revient sur les débats et l'inspiration du confinement et sur la nécessité de réinterroger en permanence la culture.

Has lockdown made Hofesh Shechter more reflective? More political? A better teacher? Has he taken the time to compose? Read our interview to find out...

The ENT consultant and professional tenor tells us about the research he is conducting for Public Health England, which will inform singers, musicians and their ensembles and venues about the safety of a return to performing on stage.

Japan didn’t experience a strict “lockdown”, but concert halls and orchestras were asked to “refrain from” holding events. We look at how lockdown has progressed and the role that video has played.

The tradition of the great opera houses perhaps cannot stand unless we recommit ourselves to singing arias in the shower.

Audiences are telling us now is not the time to be dark. We should listen to them.

Stripped of its ability to earn revenue, large swathes of the performing arts industries could be wiped out within six months. The silence from the UK government is deafening.

The founder of La Veronal has been busy during lockdown and he's now back in the studio. He tells us what's coming up.

Today, the reed beds are a sea of emerging green shoots, and so is Scotland's cultural scene.

Artiste associée du KVS (Théâtre royal flamand), la co-fondatrice de la compagnie de danse-théâtre belge Peeping Tom revient sur les bouleversements causés par la pandémie et ses conséquences sur les productions à venir.

Co-directeur du CCN2 (Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble) depuis 2016, Rachid Ouramdane revient sur la façon dont la pandémie a affecté sa façon de produire et de créer de l'art.

Our reviewer Alexandra Richter writes about an emotional journey from the first cancellation to the return to the opera house.

This year's Ravenna Festival and Rossini Opera Festival will go ahead – albeit in modified format and with strict social distancing enforced.

The loss of revenue from ticket sales and touring has put most British orchestras into a parlous financial situation. The Director of the ABO discusses what has been done and what is needed.

At least on the surface, Sweden's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been very different from other countries. The CEO of Stockholm Concert Hall and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra tells us how things are progressing there.

Follow us on a photographic tour of the cultural heart of a city emptied of its people.

The head of one of the world's leading Artist Management companies is optimistic about the post-pandemic world, but worried by the apparent lack of understanding in governments in the UK and elsewhere.

Conductor Dirk Kaftan believes that only cautious, careful planning will brings audiences back to the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn once the lockdown is lifted

The CEO of a major international touring orchestra reflects on its conductors, discusses how to deal with orchestral life in the pandemic and looks forward to the coming season.

How to produce music for the BBC's latest thriller when you have 48 hours and your musicians have gone into lockdown? The composer tells us how it was done...