2020 in European music
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This article covers events in 2020 in continental European music, arranged in geographical order.
- 8 January
- The Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, Italy, names the Academy of Ancient Music as its first associate ensemble.[1]
- The Zurich Festival {Festspiele Zürich} announces that its festival will be discontinued after 2020, because of the lack of long-term financial support.[2]
- Dutch composer Martijn Padding receives the Andreaspenning award at the Concertgebouw, in recognition of his services to the musical life of Amsterdam.[3]
- 13 January – The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra announces that it is to award its Karl Amadeus Hartmann Medal posthumously to Mariss Jansons.[4]
- 26 February
- José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, the Spanish minister of culture, withdraws the invitation to operatic tenor Plácido Domingo to perform at the Teatro de la Zarzuela, following the release of an American Guild of Musical Artists report on allegations of sexual misconduct against Domingo.[5]
- The Landestheater Coburg announces the appointment of Daniel Carter as its new Generalmusikdirektor, with effect from 1 February 2021.[6]
- 18 March – The Eurovision Song Contest 2020, scheduled to take place in Rotterdam is cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – the first cancellation in the contest's 64-year history.[7]
Scandinavia
Netherlands
Ireland
UK
Germany
Switzerland and Austria
France
Italy
Eastern Europe/ Balkans
Musical films
- If It Were Love (Si c'était de l'amour)[8] (France)