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Despite the challenges brought by the pandemic, this year's Hong Kong Week 2021@Guangzhou has combined in-venue and online formats to present a wide range of artistic and cultural programmes.

In Italia l'inaugurazione del primo e unico Festival Internazionale del Musical.

More specifics including rules regarding eligibility and further logistic details will be announced in October 2021, including the Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. Learn more about the festival here!

The Seattle Symphony has announced additional exciting programming in the upcoming 2021–2022 season. Joining previously announced core repertoire in the Delta Air Lines Masterworks Series and John & Ginny Meisenbach Foundation Pops Series, expanded programming includes special performances and recitals with featured guest artists and more.

On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 6pm, ACO will host an online Listening Party via Zoom with ACO Artistic Director Derek Bermel and special guest composers John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Eugene Moye, and Melinda Wagner.

This new initiative allows Professional Company Members to receive up to $10,000 to subsidize as much as 50 percent of the fee of a woman stage director or conductor who is contracted for the first time by the company.

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has announced the 2021 summer season, which will be held in a hybrid format — both online and in-person. Support for artists, a welcoming environment for imaginative discovery and celebration, and the safety of our community are at the forefront of this #ONeillSummer.

Grammy-winning conductor Michael Christie will lead the Welsh National Opera Orchestra to accompany finalists in the 2021 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World main prize competition. Staged without an audience in strict compliance with the latest health and safety government guidelines related to COVID-19, the competition takes place from June 12 – June 19, 2021 at St. David's Hall in Cardiff.

Bang on a Can announces the Cal Performances at Home video premiere of a new film, Steel Hammer, featuring the acclaimed oratorio by Bang on a Can's co-founder, Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe.

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has commissioned Santa Cruz-born composer and multimedia artist Scott Ordway to create a new work for orchestra and vocal ensemble.

A new documentary film premiering this month documents Philadelphia Orchestra’s Historic 1973 tour and China’s contribution to classical music. Beethoven in Beijing premieres on Friday, April 16 as part of PBS Great Performances series.

The American Opera Project announces the return of its Composers & the Voice program for its 2021-2023 seasons. Created and led by Composers & the Voice Artistic Director Steven Osgood, six composers and up to three librettists will be selected for two-year fellowships to explore the fundamentals of writing for the voice and lyric theater.

The Hong Kong Dance Company meets with Chinese landscape paintings and uses natural ink as the material to build a spiritual world that spans time and space with dance art. The dancer's body is a dot, a line, a touch of lushness, rhyme, rhythm, and beauty of the soul. It is fantastic and smart, and full of vitality.

On its first four live online Marathons in 2020 (May 3, June 14, August 1, and October 18) Bang on a Can presented a total of 95 performances, including 31 world premieres of new commissions and over 130 composers and performers.

New West Symphony (NWS), with Grammy-winning conductor Michael Christie as Artistic and Music Director, continues its 2020-21 groundbreaking and reimagined season of “Global Sounds, Local Cultures” with A Tour of China – a celebration of Chinese New Year and the Spring Lantern Festival.

Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) celebrates 40 years this year! In celebration of the joys and abundant achievements of these past four decades, the company is sharing its passion for dance in 17 months of programmes and events.

Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDC) celebrates 40 years this year! In celebration of the joys and abundant achievements of these past four decades, the company is sharing its passion for dance in 17 months of programmes and events.

World-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man joined musicians from The Knights and dancer Maile Okamura (formerly of the Mark Morris Dance Group) in a specially choreographed video performance of Bits and Pieces from Lou Harrison's Concerto for Pipa and Strings—originally composed for Wu Man and premiered by her in 1997.

The Third Annual Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival will take place virtually this year, with an awards ceremony streaming live on YouTube for U.S. audiences on Thursday, January 7, 2021, at 3 p.m. EST.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's signature annual concert, Swire Symphony Under The Stars (SUTS), took place virtually this year, and successfully premiered on 12 December 2020 (SAT) on the HK Phil's website, Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Swire Trust's TrustTomorrow Facebook page, with more than 25 partnered platforms sharing the online broadcast. The video is available on the above-mentioned channels until 11 January 2021.