Stephen Raskauskas is passionate about the performing arts. As
a performing artist, he has collaborated on productions acclaimed by
the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post. He has
received numerous fellowships and awards, and holds degrees in music
from the University of Chicago and Princeton University.
Thirteen years after its concert premiere with the New York Philharmonic, New Yorkers finally saw a fully staged production of Rodion Shchedrin's opera THE ENCHANTED WANDERER.
One moment, the performers march militantly across the stage and screech like sirens, the next, they sing Pergolesi's galant Stabat Mater like sweet seraphim.
THE SCARLET IBIS is one of three new operas to have its world premiere as a part of this year's PROTOTYPE FESTIVAL, New York's incubator for cutting edge, interdisciplinary performance.
This weekend past weekend, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened an important retrospective featuring the life and works of fashion designer Patrick Kelly.