“The Saratoga Performing Arts Center Center has canceled its classical season for the first time since 1966,” writes Steve Barnes in Monday’s (5/18) Times Union (Albany, N.Y.). “The summer home of the New York City Ballet and Philadelphia Orchestra, SPAC joins most seasonal theater and dance companies and other live-performance venues in canceling 2020 events. The classical season was set to feature seven performances and four distinct programs by City Ballet including ‘Swan Lake’; 12 performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, highlighted by all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies on four consecutive days under the baton of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin; and six programs by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, exploring Beethoven and his influences. SPAC announced on May 4 that the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, scheduled for late June, would not take place for the first time in 42 years. Any changes to the rock, pop and country concert schedule at SPAC will be made by Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which programs and manages those shows. Elsewhere on the summer entertainment scene, the Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls … Jacob’s Pillow dance festival in Becket, Mass. [and] Opera Saratoga in Saratoga Springs … have canceled their 2020 seasons.”