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On March 19 and 20, the Tennessee State University Music Department and Big Blue Opera Initiatives will host the annual Harry T. Spirituals Festival. Presented in partnership with the National Museum of African American Music and…

Carnegie Hall today announced the names of the 109 outstanding young musicians selected from across the country for the ninth annual National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA). The 2022 orchestra members - ages 16…

United strings of Europe: Renewal Works by Marsh, Shaw, Golijov and Mendelssohn BIS-2549 (auditioned in 24/192). 2021. Matthew Bennet, prod.; Dave Rowell, P.Eng. Performance ****½ Sonics ****½ Here's a superbly executed oddity that…

The Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO) will hold its gala concert on March 19, 2022 at the Bowie Performing Arts Center at 2:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 'A celebration of expression' The gala concert will feature CYSO's…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced its plans for the upcoming season on Tuesday, as the organization celebrates 40 years at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.The program includes renowned guest artists, historic…

New Zealander Gemma New, in demand by orchestras around the world, has been appointed Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Te Tira Pūoro o Aotearoa. His title…

press release: The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras will present the Diane Ballweg Winterfest Concert Series on March 5 and 19, 2022 at the McFarland Performing Arts Center (at McFarland High School; easiest way to find…

Artwork doesn't always stay still once it's laid on the page or hung on the wall. Sometimes they talk to each other, and if you listen carefully, you can hear their meaning change a bit.barber Knoxville: Summer 1915 emerged Saturday night…

Friday night's performance by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the Bradley Symphony Center was like stepping back in time.Playing under the baton of music director Ken-David Masur and joined by pianist Aaron Diehl, the orchestra…

Lowell House Opera will world premiere "NIGHTTOWN" at Harvard University's Sanders Theater in Memorial Hall on March 10 and 11 at…

Among the audience waiting for the world premiere of Bill Banfield's Eighth Symphony on Friday night will be Rigoletto Lopez, 23, the recent UW-Madison grad who was asked to put visuals to Banfield's music. .…

NEWS | CHARACTERISTICS | PREVIEWS | EVENTS originally published: 01/26/2022 (PRINCETON, NJ) -- Kenneth Bean, newly named Deputy Conductor Georg and Joyce Albers-Schonberg of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO),…

Armenian baritone Navasard Hakobyan won Houston Grand Opera's 34 top prizeand Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, Operawire reports. The singer will take home $10,000. Soprano Amanda Batista came in second, who will…

PHOTO: Jamie Pham | South Pasadenan News | Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Music Director Jaime Martin. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jaime Martín, presents works by award-winning!-->!-->…

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) features 15 of today's top jazz soloists and musicians - and the band will perform at the McCallum Theater at 7 p.m., Saturday, January 23. The show is presented thanks to the…

The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2022-2023 concert season, its first under the direction of new Music Director Robert Spano. Kevin John Edusei will also join the orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor.Spano, a highly…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ever since living with a pandemic, Bernd Richard Deutsch has been waiting for this moment.He completed “Intensity,” a new piece for the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz…

A Chicago Opera Theater musical director returned to the podium to complete the closing of "Becoming Santa Claus" just three days after giving birth.Lidiya Yankovskaya is a accomplished conductor, having conducted more than 40 world…

When Damien Geter, Interim Music Director and Artistic Advisor for Portland Opera, says he listened to all types of music growing up, he truly means it.“It sounds hyperbolic, but it's true,” says Geter.…

South Bend Symphony Orchestra Music Director Alastair Willis has conducted a wide variety of concert programs with orchestras from around the world, but, he says, he has never before participated in a presentation structured like…

The new company Opera 21 has released excerpts from their upcoming work, "The Last Castrato". The opera follows the private life…

CLARKSVILLE, TN - The Gateway Chamber Orchestra invites average Tennessee residents to celebrate classical music in Clarksville with the Spring 2022 "Lift Every Voice" concert series. Clarksville performances will be held at…

Opera Saratoga and Proctors Collaborative announce a free New Years Eve concert at Universal Preservation Hall in Saratoga Springs, featuring Broadway and opera star Zachary James with pianist Laurie Rogers.The festive concert, which takes…

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - The premiere of Yerkegali Rakhmadiyev's state opera, Alpamys, dedicated to the…

Tosca in the brand new War Memorial Opera House in 1932 | Credit: SF Opera ArchiveSan Francisco Opera will be 100 years old in the rapidly approaching 2022-2023 season. It was on September 26, 1923 that Gaetano Merola, the founder,…

Two powerful Toronto opera companies have teamed up for the first time to produce a radically new interpretation of a classical work. Against the Grain Theater (AtG), the burgeoning independent opera collective behind last season's famous…

When the entire Akron Symphony Orchestra finally reunites on the EJ Thomas Hall stage on Saturday for the first time in 20 months, its program will culminate with Beethoven's explosive Fifth Symphony for an evening that will make history…

In 1916, a friend of Georgia O'Keeffe brought some of the artist's charcoal drawings to Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and dealer at the height of his fame. A follow-up letter from O'Keeffe sparked a tumultuous 30-year relationship with…

"Company" arrives: the Aspenites are ready to redo the show Aspen Community Theater presents "Company" directed by Jeff James-Schlepp alongside Music Director Dory Light on!-->!-->!-->…

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The Carmel Bach Festival has completed an almost flawless cycle of COVID-19 compliant main concerts at the Sunset Center. These evenings are repeated this week at the Festival. Additionally, a new daytime chamber music series has been…

The Sarasota Orchestra kicked off a new chapter in its history on Saturday night with the first official concert under the direction of its Music Director-designate Bramwell Tovey at the Sarasota Opera House.The Grammy and Juno…

Live music seems to be more powerful these days. Over the course of the conversations, the musicians share with me their deep gratitude and their relief to give concerts again. It must affect the energy and focus they put into each…

Christina Chevalier | October 29, 2021 The Oratorio: a documentary with Martin Scorsese premieres Friday, November 5, from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., followed by Da Ponte's oratorio: a concert for New York, 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. A new…

Opera lovers rejoice.The Dallas Opera has brought together a host of international singers for an assortment of operatic selections from the Baroque to the Modern period. There's something for everyone in the two-hour program, which…

By Jonathan Blumhofer It was an epic performance of an epic piece, imbued with Brucknerian character. Benjamin Zander conducting the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Symphony no. 8 at the symphony hall. Photo: Hilary…

(Photo: Stradella Y-Project) Located about a two-minute walk from Rome's Piazza Navona is Palazzo Altemps, a building originally designed by Melozzo da Forlì for Girolamo Riario, lord of Imola in the 15th…

Breadcrumb Links Local entertainment Author of the article: Brian kelly Release date : October 15, 2021 • 29 minutes ago • 4 minutes to read • Join the…

The Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra, a community orchestra, will perform its Season Opening Concert on Sunday, October 31, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. in the McVinney Auditorium, 43 Dave Gavitt Way, Providence RI 02903. The…

Burlington Civic Music returned to the Burlington Memorial Auditorium on Saturday for a very satisfying concert by tenor trio GENTRI from Salt Lake City.What more can you want? Three dashing young men sing up there in the vocal…

Miah Im was overflowing with enthusiasm, recalls Brian Speck, studio director of the Houston Grand Opera.Im, who died of cancer on September 30 at the age of 47, worked closely with Speck as Music Director of HGO Studio, where she!-->…

In 138 years of history, the Metropolitan Opera has never staged an opera of a black composer - until now. After 18 months of pandemic-related cancellations, the Met opened its 2021 season in September with a…

The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra will perform October 16-17 in Charleston and Parkersburg. (Photo provided) Sterling…

Music director Adam Riccinto and the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra are returning to the stage after 20 months of being unable to perform together due to COVID-19. The YSO is relaunching its regular performing season with a…

Choir director Eric Townell considers Roger Wilhelm, who died at the age of 84, to be the gold standard for a gentleman. Wilhelm was director of the shrine choir of Asbury's First United Methodist Church for nearly 30 years and Music…

Starting in October, students of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras (GCTYO) will be able to audition to form string quartets and receive weekly private lessons from a Stamford Symphony musician. The Chamber Music Program for…

The opening night of the 2021-2022 season will be a historic occasion as the Met's first performance of an opera by a black composer. Yannick Nézet-Séguin directs Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer…

Musicians born after 2000 kicked off the Project Spring Bird music season at Blackstone Music Plus opposite the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra last weekend, showcasing the…

(Photo: Concetto Armonico) Cavarzere is a small town located in the Veneto countryside in northeastern Italy, with a population of less than 15,000. One of his claims to fame is that conductor Tulio Serafin was born in the…

Richard Pittman (file photo) After the challenges of the past year and a half, being with an orchestra right now is like participating in a ritual from an analog era gone by, but one that has vital meaning for my life today, maybe…

On September 28, Texas Public Radio's KPAC 88.3 FM presents a Tuesday night opera special featuring the San Antonio opera's 2018 production of "La Traviata." Adapted from a novel by Alexandre…

No sooner were we told to shut down our cell phones than Buffalo Philharmonic Music Director JoAnn Falletta nearly ran to the podium, the orchestra jumped to its feet, and the traditional season opener "O Canada…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Orchestra is finalizing plans this fall to honor one of its most notable and longest-serving members.In an announcement Thursday, the orchestra said the recipient of its 25th Distinguished Service Award will…

ROCHESTER, NY - New musical director Andreas Delfs joined the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra on Wednesday for a taste of their season. Delfs started with RPO as a frequent guest conductor and is now its 13th Music Director. He made a…

Sondra Radvanovsky, Craig Colclough / Photo: Ken HowardADVISED“Well, here we are! General Manager, President and CEO Anthony Freud made this simple opening night public announcement, and they responded with thunderous…

David Sabella in "25CHICAGO25"LIVE AT FEINSTEIN'S / 54 BELOWAND LIVE ON BROADWAYWORLD.COMNovember 17, 2021 - 7:00 PM"Most singers do what they can with their voices. David Sabella does what he wants." -Edward Rothstein, New York…

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The English Touring Opera (ETO) invoked “diversity” to justify the non-renewal of the contracts of 13 musicians, or nearly half of its orchestra. Although employed on continuing freelance contracts,…

'PROVE UP' Lyric Opera of Chicago's new Music Director, Enrique Mazzola, begins his season with Verdi's “Macbeth,” but it's an encouraging sign of his commitment to contemporary work that he will also…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - One thing at the Cleveland Orchestra has apparently not been disrupted by the pandemic: the band's recording plans.As the world grappled with the virus and the orchestra moved to a virtual platform, he and music director…

As one of the most acclaimed contemporary opera singers, soprano Renee Fleming has had a taste of every major role.Thirty years ago, in March, when she was making her first appearance with the famous Metropolitan Opera in New York, Fleming…

Eighteen months, clear masks, social distancing measures and COVID-19 testing required. That's what the cast and directors of "Singin 'in the Rain" had to endure to get back on stage this month. "Singin 'in the Rain" will be the first…

With its theme for the upcoming season - “Dance Mix” - the Springfield Symphony Orchestra offers a large stage that will make way for classics, as well as new music and sounds from lesser-known…

The Scottsdale Philharmonic's upcoming concert on October 10 marks the start of the 10th season of bringing classical music to valley residents. Since its founding in 2012, the orchestra has…

A viewer could be forgiven for thinking that Independence Day was celebrated two months late when the Boston Landmarks Orchestra wrapped up its 2021 summer series on the Esplanade on Friday with an all-American program. Since I hadn't…

The President and CEO of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Martin, announced that the Orchestra has begun the process of finding a successor to Louis Langrée, who announced in June that he would not seek the renewal…

Breadcrumb Links Local News Author of the article: Trevor Wilhelm Release date : August 31, 2021 • 16 minutes ago • 3 minutes to read • Join the…

(Photo credit: David Cooper) British-born conductor Bramwell Tovey will begin his role as Music Director-Designate on September 1, 2021 and assume the title of Music Director in the fall of 2022 - a role that will continue over the next…

The return of the San Francisco Opera to a refurbished War Memorial Opera House after a 20-month hiatus for its 99th season on Saturday with Puccini's "Tosca" and Eun Sun Kim's inauguration as musical director already had key…

Portland, OR. Oregon Symphony brings back a favorite late summer party: the Free Waterfront Concert & Festival. The festival begins at 1 p.m. on September 4 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. It will also include a performance by the…

NEW BEDFORD - On August 26 at 6 p.m., the Seaglass Theater Company will present “The Lure of the Sea,” a concert of classical vocal repertoire that highlights the relationship of fishermen and women to…

Season tickets are now on sale for the 49th season of the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra (LCSO).Led by Music Director Dr. Carolyn Watson, LCSO will present three concerts of the season on Saturday November 13, 2021, Sunday March 13,…

Amen, on BLmO's return to public view on the Esplanade on Thursday evening. Their long-awaited re-emergence was delayed for 24 hours by a strong and humid wind. Four more Wednesday concerts are scheduled if the Rain Gods cooperate.…

Inland Northwest Opera takes Little Red Riding Hood to eastern Washington and northern Idaho with classic characters and story, but with a few twists and turns. As the tale suggests, the wolf likes the idea of…

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Opera Orlando's (formerly Opera on Park) annual summer concert series returns live and in person at the University Club of Winter Park in August.The series includes three concerts, up close and personal, by world-class singers, followed by…

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NEWS | FEATURES | OVERVIEWS | EVENTS (NEWARK, NJ) - The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has launched an interactive video adventure to explore the planets - and Gustav Holst's film The planets—In a…

Conductor Mélanie Léonard (Image: Submitted) After three years of research, Symphonie Nouveau-Brunswick chose Mélanie Léonard to be its new musical…

ADRIAN - In the world of Disney Princesses, it is beautiful, slender damsels in distress who are saved by men and immediately marry them. And they're white or, in the rare case that they're not, their culture and even their accents are…