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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 and now San Carlo in Naples: his CV reads like a hit parade of world opera. We meet a man who has no fear of speaking his mind.

Artistic Director in Madrid for eight years and in Barcelona for seventeen, Matabosch talks about singers, directors, audiences and staying open during the pandemic.

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.

Spain has restarted and mantained musical activity with no interruptions from June. We've talked to orchestras' and theatres' managers to find out how this has been possible.

Lockdown, anti-infection measures, curfew, second lockdown. One trial follows another for a live performance world which, in spite of it all, holds its head high and produces repeated miracles.

This month, we look at how live performance is faring outside Europe. The situations in Asia and the Americas could not be more different.

Cancellations, programme changes, safety measures on and off the stage: we give a snapshot of how musical Europe is living with the coronavirus.

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.

As the curtain raised again on live performances in parts of the world, the American soprano reveals what it was like to sing in a 2020 "new normal" staging at Madrid's Teatro Real. 

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.

The artistic director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders talks about the travails and inspirations of lockdown and the need to continually ask questions about 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.

The associate artist of KVS (Flemish Royal Theatre) and co-founder of Belgian dance-theatre compagnie Peeping Tom tells us about the upset caused by the pandemic and its consequences for future productions

Co-director of CCN2 (the National Choreographic Centre in Grenoble) since 2016, Rachid Ouramdane tells us how the pandemic has affected the way he creates and produces his work.

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...

Bachtrack’s operations will be reduced while the Covid-19 pandemic persists. Founders David and Alison Karlin explain what’s happening.