Philip Glass News

Bang on a Can will present its third Bang on a Can Marathon – Live Online – on Sunday, August 16, 2020 from 3-9pm ET. 

North Carolina Opera has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce a staged version of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell's acclaimed oratorio Sanctuary Road.

National Sawdust's physical doors are still closed but, thanks to a generous grant from the Alphadyne Foundation, the mission of providing artists the resources and support they need to create and present new work continues with the Digital Discovery Festival, featuring over 100 artists from May through August. All past and present Digital Discovery Festival events are accessible on the newly-constructed Live@NationalSawdust website, as well as on Facebook Live, entirely free of charge.

With over sixty total events featuring more than 100 artists over a four month span, National Sawdust's ongoing Digital Discovery Festival is the rarest sort of story in NYC's post-COVID live music world: an unalloyed success.

After celebrating its 25th Anniversary at The Soraya in 2017, DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion returns for its fourth engagement a?" this time with This Is Me: Letters from the Front Lines. From DIAVOLO artistic director Jacques Heim, This Is Me explores how the current climate of isolation has encouraged us to look within ourselves. It is The Soraya's fourth online performance.

Although the Metropolitan Opera is closed through the end of the year, you can still experience some of the its greatest performances on the big screen at The Ridgefield Playhouse. 

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA), a leading West Coast presenter dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines, reimagines a 2020-21 season with COVID-19 realities.

Carnegie Hall continues its new online seriesa?"Live with Carnegie Halla?"with an episode tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23 at 2PM EDT, hosted by Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and joined by special guests sopranos Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, and Ailyn Pérez, and Metropolitan Opera Director of Music Administration Thomas Lausmann and Chorus Master Donald Palumbo.

Though much of the celebration and NYC's annual parade has been postponed by the ongoing pandemic, National Sawdust is proud to support Pride in June by commemorating the history and future of our city's vibrant community and by celebrating artists who are creating music and theater with an explicitly LGBT+ perspective.

Carnegie Hall continues its new online series-Live with Carnegie Hall-with an episode tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23 at 2PM EDT, hosted by Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and joined by special guests sopranos Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, and Ailyn Pérez, and Thomas Lausmann and Donald Palumbo.

This weekend (June 19) in live streaming: Jessie Mueller sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!

Today (June 19) in live streaming: the first ever Antonyo Awards, Peter Pan Live! and so much more!

The School of American Ballet (SAB) premieres recent highlights of the School's Annual Workshop Performances on Lincoln Center at Home from July 9, 2020 at 7pm ET until July 13, 2020 at 7pm ET.

Due to concerns and uncertainties caused by the global Coronavirus pandemic, the Japan Art Association has made the difficult decision to postpone the 32nd Praemium Imperiale annual Awards Announcement of new laureates for an entire year until September 2021.  

Washington Performing Arts (WPA) today announced Home Delivery Plus, a new online series of performances and companion experiences beginning in early 2021.

Carnegie Hall is continuing its new online series-Live with Carnegie Hall-with an episode on Tuesday, June 16 at 2PM EDT, hosted by the leading interpreter of the American Songbook Michael Feinstein.

Paul McCartney proudly announces the thirteenth installment in his GRAMMY Award-winning Archive Collection: On July 31, Paul's critically acclaimed and universally beloved tenth solo album Flaming Pie will be the latest to receive the Archive Collection treatment

The Metropolitan Opera gets an Encore at The Ridgefield Playhouse this Summer

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 12th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

San Francisco Classical Voice has reported that the San Francisco Girls Chorus is presenting a Virtual Festival, being streamed during June on their website.