Canton Symphony Orchestra Presents Verdi's Requiem Mass, 4/29
by Christina Mancuso
- Apr 7, 2017
For our season finale, the Canton Symphony Orchestra pulls out all the stops for the massive Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi. This powerful concert full of splendor begins at 8:00pm on April 29, 2017at Umstattd Performing Arts Hall at the Zimmermann Symph
2017 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Concludes, 5/30
by Molly Tracy
- Apr 7, 2017
The 2017 Schwabacher Debut Recitals series concludes on Sunday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m., with a recital by a trio of San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows featured with collaborative pianist Warren Jones in a program of Italian and French repertoire.
Sarasota Opera Announces 2017 HD AT THE OPERA HOUSE Series
by Molly Tracy
- Apr 7, 2017
Sarasota Opera is pleased to announce the line-up for the 2017 season of 'HD at the Opera House'. This weekly Sunday afternoon series of filmed performances, which debuted in 2014, has allowed Sarasota Opera to expand its programming from the fall and winter season to year-around.
Photo Flash: PREformance's With Allison Charney
by Molly Tracy
- Apr 7, 2017
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.” The poetry of Henry David Thoreau and the music of Moshe Knoll and Michael Ching, Verdi, Mascagni and Cavalli soared Monday April 3rd from the JCC Manhattan' New York classical music series 'PREformances with Allison Charney.'
Florida Grand Opera Presents Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, 4/29
by Molly Tracy
- Apr 2, 2017
A tortuous love triangle involving the King of Sweden. A mysterious fortune teller who predicts that the King will soon die. An assassination plot. Few of Giuseppe Verdi's operas contain as many bewitching elements as his 1859 masterpiece Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), which opens at Florida Grand Opera on April 29, 2017, in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County's Ziff Ballet Opera House.
Sarasota Opera Unveils New Artist Housing
by Molly Tracy
- Mar 30, 2017
On Tuesday, March 21st, Sarasota Opera officially dedicated the newly built Steinwachs Artist Residences for Sarasota Opera located at 1444 Boulevard of the Arts in Sarasota, FL.
WWFM The Classical Network to Air New Jersey Symphony Concerts
by Christina Mancuso
- Mar 27, 2017
In a new partnership, WWFM The Classical Network will air New Jersey Symphony Orchestra concert broadcasts on Friday, March 31; Thursday, April 27; and Friday, June 2. Each broadcast airs at 8 pm on 89.1 FM and streams simultaneously online at www.wwfm.org. The programs will feature music by Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Strauss and more in performances led by Music Director Xian Zhang, recorded live at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Webcasts will become available for on-demand listening on the NJSO and WWFM websites.
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Announces New Season
by Christina Mancuso
- Mar 22, 2017
What is the importance of classical music in today's world? This is a concern of Kent Nagano's, in his 12th year at the helm of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. And that question is at the source of the programming offered by the OSM for its 2017-2018 season, with the 375th anniversary of the city of Montréal well under way. Each week, Maison symphonique will resound to the sound of the Orchestra, with over 100 concerts being presented there.
Philharmonia Orchestra of NY Presents SYMPHONIC STORYBOARDS
by Christina Mancuso
- Mar 21, 2017
The Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY) is now the world's first orchestra to host its own film competition in search of talented filmmakers to create original films to accompany its performances. The winners' films, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner, will be screened during PONY's Symphonic Storyboards concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center March 21-22, under the baton of principal conductor Atsushi Yamada. Hailed as “among the most progressive modern orchestras,” PONY is an ensemble of some of New York's finest musicians, dedicated to reinventing classical music performance with spectacular visuals and lighting.
Oahu Choral Society Presents MESSA DA REQUIEM, 4/6
by Molly Tracy
- Mar 21, 2017
O?ahu Choral Society Symphony Chorus, Brigham Young University Hawaii Chorus and the Hawai?i with the Hawai?i Symphony Orchestra presents: 'Messa da Requiem' by Giuseppe Verdi, Esther S. Yoo, conductor.
Verismo Opera Presents Met Opera's Raul Melo In AIDA
by Molly Tracy
- Mar 21, 2017
Last performed by the company in 2011 at bergenPAC, Verismo Opera announces tenor Raúl Melo, a guest artist at the Metropolitan Opera for nine seasons, will premiere with the company and perform the role of Radames.
Opera Grand Rapids Announces 50th Anniversary Season
by BWW News Desk
- Mar 20, 2017
On June 2, 1967, West Michigan audiences were given their first opera. 50 years and 128 operas later, Opera Grand Rapids returns to its beginnings with the same rousing, tuneful comedy.
Jorge Martin's BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, Approaches Opening at Florida Grand Opera
by Julie Musbach
- Mar 10, 2017
March 18 is opening night of Florida Grand Opera's (FGO) production of Jorge Martin's Before Night Falls-one of the most provocative and dramatic operas of the twenty-first century. FGO's staging marks the regional premiere of a work that National Review called 'a worthy work of art' and Gay City News dubbed 'one of the most admirable American operas of recent years.'
The Dallas Opera Presents MADAME BUTTERFLY
by BWW
News Desk
- Mar 10, 2017
The Dallas Opera is thrilled to present the block-buster of the season, Giacomo Puccini'sheart-wrenching MADAME BUTTERFLY. With its poignant melodies, memorable characters, and intriguing storyline, it's the must-see opera for newcomers a perennial favorite of aficionados. The stellar international cast features one of today's most famous interpreters of the role of Cio-Cio-San, (Butterfly), the extraordinary Chinese soprano Hui He, as well as Italian tenor Gianluca Terranova (Lt. B.F. Pinkerton); each in their Dallas Opera debuts. Renowned Italian conductor Donato Renzetti will be at the podium in this San Francisco Opera production directed by the distinguished British stage director, John Copley.
Palm Beach Opera Presents Verdi's RIGOLETTO, 3/10-12
by BWW
News Desk
- Mar 10, 2017
Palm Beach Opera presents Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto for one weekend only, March 10-12, at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. One of the most popular operas in the repertoire, Rigoletto is "a must-see masterpiece" of passion and vengeance, filled with some of opera's most famous arias, such as "La donna e mobile," and "Questa o quella."
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