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Four of New York's rising opera stars are set to perform a program of popular love songs ranging from classical to ragtime and…

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…

When Stillman College called, Jocqueline Richardson answered.As an alumnus, having studied music education at the historically black college in Tuscaloosa, with a concentration in vocals, she felt compelled to help her alma mater.TIGER…

The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates the joys of Baroque music with Bach + Vivaldi Gloria. On the program, three jewels of the Baroque period: the sunny Gloria by Vivaldi; CPE Bach's Magnificat, with festive trumpets and drums; and…

The Dallas Opera is set to return to the stage with a production of "Madame Butterfly." The production, which will begin at the…

Friends University has announced upcoming performances of two short operas this month: The old maid and the thief by Gian Carlo Menotti and Fables by Ned Rorem. The Opera Night will take place February 26-27, 2022. It is led by local…

Georgia Symphony Orchestra GSO Jazz! The set will offer a romance-themed jazz evening for the Valentine's Day holiday. Details are in the press release, reproduced below: (Marietta, GA, January 31, 2022) Just in time for…

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. .…

Viva Verdi 2021-22 from the Orlando Opera! The season heats up this spring as the company kicks off its "On the Town" series with two very different but equally compelling productions. See you in March for the comic strip King for a Day…

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…

(Credit: Drew Gardner) The Opernhaus Zürich has announced that the Italian conductor Riccardo Minasi has been appointed the first…

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. “We probably listened to mostly…

Heartbeat Opera will host a four-city tour of its powerful 2018 adaptation of Beethoven's masterpiece FIDELIO, which Heartbeat artistic director Ethan Heard designed for the Black Lives Matter era.Heartbeat Opera FIDELIO is presented by The…

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra has launched its 2022 season, which is impressive too. Entitled “Perpetual Emotion,” the program, which opens April 8 at Adelaide City Hall, is certainly one of the country's most daring efforts. Of…

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MILAN (AP) - As many European theaters remain closed due to the pandemic, the famous Teatro alla Scala opened its new season on Tuesday with the gala premiere of Verdi's 'Macbeth' in a fully equipped hall. Despite the sparkling…

With events returning in person to the stages of the Bay Area, the classical music scene is feeling the love this holiday season. December brings concerts, operas, recitals and more; here are 10 of the top attractions to come. A happy…

Over the past 20 years, Laura Jackson believes, she has been a guest conductor of hundreds of symphony orchestras. In many of them, she was the first female guest conductor that the orchestra presented. But Jackson, who invited…

Alan Gilbert is scheduled to conduct a new production of Wagner's “Die Walküre” at the Royal Swedish Opera on November 20, 2021.…

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…

The San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra recently received a $ 2 million donation from the Paramo family. It is the largest donation the orchestra has received in its 93-year history, according to a press release, and the funds are going to…

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…

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

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 “Welcome Back”…

When conductor Simone Young takes the podium at the newly renovated Sydney Opera House, it will be more of a homecoming than many people think.Young is the new conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and will be in place on July 20 for…

(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…

AAM's new musical director, Laurence Cummings, commissioned his substantial orchestra, a choir of 26 musicians, five soloists and even Alastair Ross' striking and historic continuo - a Broadwood Forte pian from 1801. They…

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 more.…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, opera has failed to live up to its status as a “total art form” for four centuries. Of course, there were online concerts and movies created during the lockdown. But performers,…

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 Dumas,…

Provided by Manassas Symphony Orchestra (MSO) After a successful free pop concert in front of an enthusiastic audience, the Manassas Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of the musical director Jacques Villani, is pleased to…

As Goodspeed Opera House is finally reopening its doors to theatergoers, things are different.There are, of course, the public COVID rules; everyone must be fully vaccinated or have a pre-approved exemption and a negative COVID!-->!-->…

Bach Now with Emmanuel Music: This Sunday, during the regular service at 10 a.m., Emmanuel Music kicks off its 50e-Annual Bach Cantata Series at Emmanuel Church, Boston (HERE ) with Bach's Cantata n ° 72, “Alles nur nach Gottes Willen”…

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…

(Photo credit: Andreas Grieger) The announcement came in a letter sent to 13 players, aged 40 to 66, from the English tour operadirector of (ETO) James Conway. "English Touring Opera is committed to increasing all kinds of diversity…

For 35 years, the Los Angeles Opera's opening night, with its black-tie festivities, has, with one exception, heralded the fall season, regardless of the weather. No one needed to remember Saturday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion…

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 Times“To…

By Lawrence A. Johnson Craig Colclough stars in Verdi's film Macbeth at the Chicago Lyric Opera. Photo: Ken Howard Chicago's Lyric Opera opened its 2021-22 season Friday night with Verdi's Macbeth, the first performance on its stage…

The penultimate production of the 2022 Tête à Tête Opera Festival, based at the Cockpit Theater in London and showcasing new contemporary and avant-garde works by young composers, is RUNE, written and composed by Alastair White. This 50…

Blake Allen, known for his innovative bringing together of contemporary music and theater through composition, performance and storytelling, announces the release of his world premiere recording of Shards of a Code of Honor Junkie,…

When mention is made of the prominent prolific symphonists of the 19th century, the name Emilie Louise Friderica Mayer probably does not come to mind. Yet Mayer (1812-1883) - an almost exact contemporary of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe…

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 of his…

The Franklin Light Opera Company has announced its first production of Cinderella by Pauline Viardot, at the Williamson County Performing Arts Center in Academy Park, 112 Everbright Ave, Franklin, TN 37064. The production will run for three…

(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 Orchester symphonique de Saint-Louis, led by musical director Stéphane Denève, returns for its 2021-22…

The Metropolitan Opera has reached a working agreement with its orchestra, officials said on Tuesday, paving the way for its musicians to return to work and the resumption of performances next month by the company, the largest arts…

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…

Steven Reineke was 7 when the original "Star Wars" debuted in 1977. Now at 50, he will lead the most comprehensive music program in the film franchise set "long ago in a galaxy far away. , very distant ... " “I always like to do the main…

Only five or ten years ago, women on the podiums of symphony orchestras, large and small, remained a rarity. But with the rise of the #MeToo movement and the intensification of discussions about equity and diversity since the death of…

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, July 23On paper, the Santa Fe Desert Choir The roaring 1920s…

CORNISH - Opera under a big top? Why not? It worked!Opera North opened its production of Puccini's "La…

There is something in the water in Finland. Whether it is the wealth of conducting teachers or an education system that nurtures musical talent, there has been a relentless flow of exports of distinguished conductors…

Eckart Preu, Music Director of the Cincinnati Chamber OrchestraPhoto: Philip GroshongCincinnati Summermusik Chamber Orchestra Summer Festival returns from the pandemic shutdown from August 6, with performances until August 20 at!--]}%-->…

Conductor Mélanie Léonard (Image: Submitted) After three years of research, Symphonie Nouveau-Brunswick chose Mélanie Léonard to be its new musical director. Over 50 conductors from Canada, the United…

(Photo: Monika Ritterhaus) "Combattimento, La Théorie du Cygne Noir" is a scenic work for eight singers, composed of madrigals, arias, lamentations and instrumental pieces from the Baroque period from 1630 to 1650. Directed…

Rady Shell of the San Diego Symphony OrchestraThe classic San Diego music scene has coped with the COVID-19 invasion by swapping closed concert halls for parking lots and online media. Appreciative bravos and bravas have been replaced by…

With recent highlights, including exceptional recordings of Dussek's Solemn Mass and Eccles' Semele, the Academy of Early Music is at its peak. As Richard Egarr's reign as musical director draws to a close, it is…

CHELMSFORD - Twelve years of playing violin brought Chelmsford High's sophomore Kaitlyn Kaminuma joy, inspiration, connection and life lessons. This year, it brought him an unprecedented opportunity. This month, 16-year-old Kaminuma will…

by Michael Caruso Two of the most popular and acclaimed resident ensembles in the local classical music community closed their “virtual” seasons with concerts in June. Matthew Glandorf conducted…

US conductor Lawrence Golan and the York Symphony Orchestra (YSO) signed a 5-year contract renewing his commitment to the 88-year-old organization. The internationally renowned conductor has been leading the Pennsylvania Orchestra since…

The last music heard in the Walt Disney Concert Hall before the pandemic closed was pianist Conrad Tao's performance of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated", which is part of Power to the People at the Los Angeles…

Conroe Symphony conductor Anna-Maria Gkouni Photo: Ford and companyAlthough Anna-Maria Gkouni was appointed Musical Director of the Conroe Symphony Orchestra last March, her first rehearsal was only a few weeks ago. She wasn't sure!-->…

Brenda Rae sings the role of Elvira in the WCO streaming concert of Bellini's “I Puritani”. Photo: Arts Laureate Among the performing arts, opera has suffered the worst damage from the coronavirus pandemic. Even though other…

KATONAH, NY - Before a St. Luke's Orchestra concert on a scorching Sunday afternoon here at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, a jubilant James Roe, executive director of the ensemble, told the audience that these musicians had not…