Category: Opera music

The John Donald Robb Musical Trust and the National Hispanic Cultural Center at the University of New Mexico present the 8th Annual John D. Robb,Read More…

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Devendra Sharma and together | Courtesy of Devendra SharmaThe Hewlett 50 Art commissions announced the 2021 awards in the disciplines of folk and traRead More…

This year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Awards winners have been announced tonight, with first prizes going to new BBC National OrchRead More…

Home Theater Broadway: the musical Bob Dylan still on the way to the Tonys – in 2022, the musical Michael Jackson … Read More…

Opera in Florham is delighted to bring five performers to the Morristown stage on Sunday November 7th at 3pm to sinRead More…

Bernard Haitink was one of the great classical conductors of modern times, an imposing figure who had conducted many great orchestras from his home coRead More…

October 29-31, 2021 Evenings, mornings and live performances are available. For more information visit http://www.operanuova.ca OpRead More…

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HATTIESBURG, Mississippi (WDAM) – Imagine the classic Hansel and Gretel story and throw it in the 1970s. This is what you expect from Opera on the GreRead More…

Stellar tenor Jonas Kaufmann appears in a rare recital at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)Jonas Kaufmann is in manRead More…

Benjamin Britten had already composed several of his best-known operas when, in 1964, he began writing a trio of works which he called “parables” – reRead More…

Frank Paul Fetta, longtime conductor of the Inland Orchestras and the driving force behind the Redlands Bowl, has passed away.
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Mr. Haitink called his youth “lazy days.”“I wasn’t stupid,” he explained, “but I just wasn’t there. Half the time we were taught under our deskRead More…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) – The Nashville Opera House now has its own merry-go-round.”Opera On Wheels” is the program centered around a moving stage thRead More…

Classically trained pianist Elizabeth Brubeck taught two sons to play the family piano before her youngest boy, David, embraced the instrument, teRead More…

Hadestown at Kennedy Center brings us the best of Broadway. It won a total of eight Tonys in 2019, including Best New Musical. Soaring Read More…

Tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Black Prairie Blues Museum in downtown West Point, there will be a musical event not only to hear but tRead More…

We have in Santa Monica, America, all over the developed world that is climate disastrous, a pleasure problem that we dare not address. Of course, weRead More…

The Lee University School of Music will welcome mezzo-soprano Caitlin Moore as the next guest in the 2021 Performing Arts Series. The performaRead More…

Revered Italian director Luchino Visconti was openly gay but devout Catholic, ostensibly Communist but uncompromisingly aristocratic. In short, he emRead More…

Resumption of performances on Friday, October 22 at the Théâtre MajesticPosted: October 12, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. CDT|Update: 3 hours agoNEW YORK, 12 OcRead More…

From Friday afternoon through Saturday twilight, musicians and performers from the AppalaRead More…

Christina and Michelle Naughton (photo by Aram Boghosian)The memorable fall day of October 8e, the Boston Symphony Orchestra rightly offered a programRead More…

MAGIC VALLEY – Opera Idaho’s first production since the start of the pandemic returns this weekend with the Merry Widow. And the Magic Valley might rRead More…

THEand I admit it: I have not, for most of my life, been the model even of an unconditional fan of the work of William Schwenck GilRead More…

Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. In February 2017. AP file photo by Mario Jose SanchezRead More…

Michelle connelly | Special for Mid-York Weekly USA TODAY NETWORKThe Earlville Opera House is delighted to welcome famous Canadian folk musician ScRead More…

Chris Thilé Photo by Devin Pedde It sometimes happens that an artist defies all musical categorization and Chris Thile is one of those musicians. Read More…

Grace Collins never knew her mother could sing. There was one day, however, when her mother mentioned her past experiences singing, telling Collins Read More…

When conductor Simone Young takes the podium at the recently renovated Sydney Opera House, it will be more of a homecoming than many people think.YounRead More…

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Guerilla Opera created the new chamber opera by composer Gabriele Vanoni and librettist Ewa Chrusciel Ellis last night at the Old South Meeting HoRead More…

Finally, live concerts will be back in October for several classical music and dance series. The idea is to aim for a normal season, at least as muRead More…

A year after her death, the life of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was transformed into something she loved deeply: musicRead More…

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The pirates of PenzancePhoto: Jeff Roffman, Atlanta Opera HouseAfter a centennial season canceled due to COVID and another season held outdooRead More…

Before the face covering became a part of everyone’s life during the pandemic, one of popular culture’s most famous mask figures was doing it first.Read More…

NEW YORK – “We bend, we don’t break. We’re wavering! ”Sings the choir in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s“ Fire Shut Up in My Bones Read More…

How does an opera company stand out when they don’t have the budget to produce big extravagances? Looking to the future. Opera Las Vegas forges its Read More…

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Opera fans are encouraged to forget about the black tie and ball gowns and pack their pajamas when Opera Australia hosts its first event on Cockatoo IRead More…

The Calgary Opera has announced that JonRead More…

In every corner of the region, North Texans are incredibly fortunate to enjoy an abundance of world-class arts institutions, many of which have been cRead More…

On October 28, 2021, Opera Atelier will Read More…

Fancy a prestigious TV break for an evening? Good news: an important 20th century American opera is now available for streaming, after a rare live stRead More…

History is made tonight at New York Metropolitan opera: For the first time in 138 years, the eminent company will present an opera by a blacRead More…

As Goodspeed Opera House is finally reopening its doors to theatergoers, things are different.There are, of course, the public COVID rulesRead More…

The Decameron Opera Coalition will preseRead More…

No sooner were we told to shut down our cell phones than Buffalo Philharmonic Music Director JoAnn Falletta nearly ran to the podium, theRead More…

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It may sound strange: Anthony Roth Costanzo is a star countertenor in an opera world where this highest male voice is increasingly in demand. Her haRead More…

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) – If you have tickets for an upcoming show at the Tucson Music Hall, expect a newer and more enjoyable experience. “You will seRead More…

In this file photo from January 1, 2018, Italian maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the traditional New Year’s EvRead More…

Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Drama and Dance Department kicks off its main season this week with the musical “HMS Pinafore: How a Lass LRead More…

Soprano Carmen Balthrop made her Metropolitan Opera debut on April 6, 1977. Thirteen days later, she made a completely different debut in a US Senate Read More…

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Sebastian Lang-Lessing was Music Director of the San Antonio Symphony for 10 years and last year became its Music Director Emeritus. I am in Seoul, I Read More…

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Racial preferences have been almost impossible to dislodge because their human costs are usually hidden. College admissions officersRead More…

When Bodhi Tree Concerts proclaims that its next decade will be “Bigger, Bolder, Sweeter”, it is no empty promise. The celebration of the 10th anniveRead More…

Spokane Arts announced the recipients of its 2021 Arts Awards on Saturday at a small private celebration for the nominees, as the fuRead More…

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‘PROVE UP’ Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new Music Director, Enrique Mazzola, begins his season with Verdi’s “Macbeth,” but it’s an encouraging signRead More…

The Springer Opera House begins its 150th season with the opening of the exaggerated fairytale comedy, Shrek the Musical, on the Springer Main Stage fRead More…

CHICAGO (CBS) – Back on stage for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
The Lyric Opera in Chicago will open its doors Friday to a live audiRead More…

PARIS – Before his rehearsals for Oedipus by George Enescu at the Paris Opera, playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad did something unusual. He gatherRead More…

Mention Rose Kennedy’s name and you might assume that the Kennedy mentioned is the matriarch of the political dynasty whose children included a US PreRead More…

(Want to receive this newsletter in your inbox? Here is registration.) Have a good evening. Here is the last one at the end of Friday.1. It started oRead More…

“The evening promises to be an emotional celebration. I hope our magnificent theater can contain the excitement,” Goodspeed artistic director Donna LyRead More…

When Vikingur Ólafsson was 8 years old, he had a temper tantrum Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As he tried to play the tracks in the little trickster EasyRead More…

The Kurt weill The Music Foundation announced the winners of the 23rd edition Monkfish Lenya Competition, which was held in front of an invitation-onlRead More…

ROCKLAND – “Never Leaving This Boat — Fragments of a Blues Opera,” a provocative and thought-provoking new work by Maine-based playwrightRead More…

A new independent touring organization called Music in The Regions Ltd has been announced. With a mission to connect classical musicians to regional Read More…

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This scene is from the choral oratorio “Six Feet Apart,” a Rogue Valley-based multimedia production of Oregon pandemic stories which premieRead More…

Trinity Church Wall Street has announced its 2021-22 season. The first will be “Vigil Psalms: A Service of Prayer, Readings & Music”, Read More…

“I just remember one of the things she said to me as I was leaving the session was – she said I was ‘coming at the right time’,” Scholz said, “aRead More…

Country soul sounds, an ethereal chorus and sublime opera highlights lit up The Rechabite on Saturday with a Breaksea singing festival from the heart Read More…

By John Y. Lawrence Michelle DeYoung and pianist Kevin Murphy performed music by Haydn, Mahler and Korngold Thursday night at Ravinia. Photo: DanRead More…

For Jessie Montgomery, growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was clearly a formative experience. When she looks back on heRead More…

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What happens when traditional calligraphy collides with Kunqu opera? Artist HuoRead More…

The role of Elle, the lonely character of Francois PoulencThe human voice has been called a real tour de force for Patricia racette, which has broughtRead More…

Ian Robertson, director of the San Francisco Opera Chorus, conducts the rehearsal at the Taube Atrium Theater of the War Memorial Opera House. PhoRead More…

Khori Dastoor, Managing Director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera (as of January 2022); Janice Bond, deputy director of the Houston Museum of ConRead More…

Florida Grand Opera (FGO) has announced its upcoming 80th anniversary season. The season will open in January 2022 with A Streetcar Named Desire. ThRead More…

Celebrating the talents of Australia’s top composers and performers of contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music, this year’s awards will taRead More…

July 19, 2021, 11:29 The opera house in Wuppertal, in western Germany, was fRead More…

Opera North has announced a 10-week traiRead More…

BALLET PHOTOS BY KELLY PERKOVICH
There is ballet and rock and roll. There is the opera and the Tamburitzans.
This eclectic program is only found in oRead More…

The Deutschtown Music Festival is Pittsburgh’s largest free music showcase – possibly the largest in the counRead More…

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The second half of Opera Holland Park’s renewed summer offering opened this week with the late philosophical comedyRead More…

West Australian Opera tenor star Paul O’Neill will perform with his eldest son Thomas, 13, when the company takes the stage next weekend in a double pRead More…

DETROIT ’67 CREATIVE TEAM
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Dominique morisseau (Dramaturge) is the author of the Detroit ProRead More…

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If you looked closely, opera never really went away during the pandemic.Some companies have performed in empty houses, hoping to reach the audience atRead More…

Illuminarium
From live theater and big shows to films and festivals, the arts scene is heating up and this summer it will be live and in personRead More…

After a season of canceled plans, revisions and reboots that led to 12 outdoor shows and two virtual presentations, Artist Series Concerts of SarasotaRead More…

Central New Yorkers can enjoy summer art and music festivals again this year by going to Cazenovia in July and Skaneateles in August. These two long-Read More…

THURSDAY-SATURDAYthe Colorado Music Festival opens today in Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium with seven festival concerts broadcast live. 22 performanRead More…

Nominations for the 2021 Australian Women In Music Awards (AWMA) end at midnight on Tuesday, July 6.
After last year’s ceremony was put onRead More…