Claude Debussy News

Award-winning actor and piano virtuoso Hershey Felder broke box office records this month at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts during his engagement of HERSHEY FELDER: BEETHOVEN. The show broke the theater's record as the highest grossing ticket sales for a multiple-week event with over 11,000 audience members attending BEETHOVEN during its four-week run. HERSHEY FELDER: BEETHOVEN had previously broken box office records during its World Premiere of this new adaptation at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in June of 2017.

Boston Court Pasadena presents another daring season of music events to Southern California - 14 Uncommon Performances -- this fall starting September 7 with a program of all new work in Poets, Prophets and Philosophers - with The Lyris Quartet and soprano Hila Plitmann.

En el marco del ciclo Bellas Artes a todas partes, la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) organiza diversos conciertos y clases magistrales al interior de la República Mexicana. En esta ocasión llegará al Estado de México, Guanajuato, Sinaloa y Veracruz.

Renowned music conservatory Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is celebrating its Centennial during the 2018-19 season with performances and events that draw inspiration from its rich 100-year history of music-making and education.

The Anchoress, a new monodrama by composer David Ludwig, "a composer with something urgent to say" (Philadelphia Inquirer), will have its world premiere on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 7:30 PM at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia under the auspices of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The next evening, Thursday, October 18, the New York premiere will take place at DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Set to texts by Katie Ford, whose poetry "possess[es] the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night" (The New York Times Book Review), The Anchoress is based on the medieval mystic tradition called anchorism and its relationship to contemporary society. It will be performed by soprano Hyunah Yu, the early music ensemble Piffaro: The Renaissance Wind Band, and all-saxophone PRISM Quartet.

On Today, July 28, 2018 at 8:00pm, Spectrum presents contemporary Chinese-American pianist Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes, a new multi-sensory program employing Chai's unique form of synesthesia. The program explores repertoire that lives at the intersection of color and sound, exploring this meeting of the senses through important works of the colorful Impressionistic era paired with new works created using Artificial Intelligence technology. In order to fully realize this concept, Chai completed a six-month residency at Cite des Arts in Paris, where she worked simultaneously on the musical performance and the paintings associated with each score. Sonorous Brushes was designed and premiered at Wigmore Hall in London on June 26, 2018.

The MusicaNova Orchestra (MNO) today announced its ground-breaking 2018-19 concert season,"Reflection, Discovery, and Hope,"with three performances at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix. The new venue is a natural evolution for both the MIM and MusicaNova, as both organizations seek to offer surprising and varied musical experiences to the public.

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) announces the Fall 2018 BAC Presents season of music and dance presentations, which runs September 19 through December 5 . Tickets for performances at BAC (450 W. 37th Street, New York, NY) are on sale now, and can be purchased at bacnyc.org and 866 811 4111. Also this fall, BAC Residencies will provide support for the development of new works in theater, dance, music, and multimedia by artists from Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and New York City.

Dos sonatas y una sonatina integran el programa que interpretarán la pianista Guadalupe Parrondo y el violinista Adrián Justus, el 27 de julio a las 18:00 en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes y el 28 a las 11:30 en el Salón de Recepciones del Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), dentro del ciclo Música de cámara que organiza la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Virtuosic pianists Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank will perform works for four-hands and solo piano at the Otesaga Resort Hotel ballroom on Sunday, August 12 at 7:30pm as part of the 20th anniversary season of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival.

Por medio de sus grupos artísticos y acervos, el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) estará presente en el XLVI Festival Internacional Cervantino (FIC), el cual se llevará a cabo del 10 al 28 de octubre en la ciudad de Guanajuato.

The multi-talented musicians of The Fourth Wall are well-known to Winnipeg Fringe audiences. With sold-out shows at each of the past two festivals (2016, 2017), the trio is often nicknamed 'The Fruit Flies,' after their award-winning variety show Fruit Flies Like a Banana. Fringe fans may be surprised to learn that, rather than return with a new version of the Fruit Flies... format, The Fourth Wall will be bringing a new show to the 2018 festival, entitled Fallen From the Toy Box.

Con la participación de más de una veintena de nóveles intérpretes, no solo de la Ciudad de México, sino también de los estados, durante el mes de julio el ciclo de la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, Jóvenes en la Música, ofrecerá una serie de conciertos, los cuales buscan brindar un espacio de regocijo para el público y ser un espacio de visibilidad para talentos en formación.

The multi-talented musicians of The Fourth Wall are well-known to Winnipeg Fringe audiences. With sold-out shows at each of the past two festivals (2016, 2017), the trio is often nicknamed 'The Fruit Flies,' after their award-winning variety show Fruit Flies Like a Banana. Fringe fans may be surprised to learn that, rather than return with a new version of the Fruit Flies... format, The Fourth Wall will be bringing a new show to the 2018 festival, entitled Fallen From the Toy Box.

On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 8:00pm, Spectrum presents contemporary Chinese-American pianist Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes, a new multi-sensory program employing Chai's unique form of synesthesia. The program explores repertoire that lives at the intersection of color and sound, exploring this meeting of the senses through important works of the colorful Impressionistic era paired with new works created using Artificial Intelligence technology. In order to fully realize this concept, Chai completed a six-month residency at Cite des Arts in Paris, where she worked simultaneously on the musical performance and the paintings associated with each score. Sonorous Brushes was designed and premiered at Wigmore Hall in London on June 26, 2018.

Teatro Colon will present the 1902 opera in five acts, PELEAS Y MELISANDE, on August 31 and September 2, 4, and 7. 

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announced today the 2018/2019 season, delivering ten months of groundbreaking produced and presented works in dance, music and theater from locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists and companies. The season begins September 21, 2018, marking the third year of programming under the leadership of Artistic Director Paul Crewes and Managing Director Rachel Fine and the sixth for the institution. Michael Nemeroff, Chairman of the Board of The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, begins the second year of his term.

MetLiveArts has announced its lineup of performances and events for June 2018. Check out the listings below!

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts announced today the 2018/2019 season, delivering ten months of groundbreaking produced and presented works in dance, music and theater from locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists and companies. The season begins September 21, 2018, marking the third year of programming under the leadership of Artistic Director Paul Crewes and Managing Director Rachel Fine and the sixth for the institution. Michael Nemeroff, Chairman of the Board of The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, begins the second year of his term.