Henry Purcell News

McDaniel College is offering a diverse calendar of theatre, art exhibits and music events throughout November.

The weeklong Composers Now celebration launched February 22 at the festival's hub, Symphony Space, to provide a citywide platform for unprecedented recognition of living composers through concerts and activities at a diverse array of performance spaces. This ear-opening, provocative and daring festival brings arts organizations together to develop this broad-ranging program initiative.

The weeklong Composers Now celebration launches February 22 at the festival's hub, Symphony Space, to provide a citywide platform for unprecedented recognition of living composers through concerts and activities at a diverse array of performance spaces.

Inaugural BAM Opera Festival-curated by William Christie and featuring his acclaimed ensemble Les Arts Florissants-begins Mar 18.

Die Freitagsakademie, das renommierte Berner Kammer-ensemble auf historischen Instrumenten, erweitert sein künstlerisches Repertoire um eine Koproduktion mit dem Stadttheater Bern.

The weeklong Composers Now celebration launches February 22 at the festival's hub, Symphony Space, to provide a citywide platform for unprecedented recognition of living composers through concerts and activities at a diverse array of performance spaces.

Die Freitagsakademie, das renommierte Berner Kammer-ensemble auf historischen Instrumenten, erweitert sein künstlerisches Repertoire um eine Koproduktion mit dem Stadttheater Bern.

It's a timeless tale: two rivalrous brothers vie for the love of a single woman. But REMEMBER ME, the ambitious new collaboration between Parsons Dance Company and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC), is anything but old-fashioned. Combining contemporary dance with live and recorded music as well as video projections, aerial choreography and special effects, Remember Me is at once rock-opera and opera that really rocks.

As soon as you hear the strains of the keyboard riff from The Who's 'Baba O'Reily' blending seamlessly into Mozart's 'Overture for Figaro', you know you're in for something different. With their co-creation, REMEMBER ME, Parsons Dance and the East Village Opera Company have crafted an exhilarating combination of music and modern dance that manages to transcend both mediums, transforming a simple story into something wholly new and visually arresting.

It's a timeless tale: two rivalrous brothers vie for the love of a single woman. But REMEMBER ME, the ambitious new collaboration between Parsons Dance Company and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC), is anything but old-fashioned. Combining contemporary dance with live and recorded music as well as video projections, aerial choreography and special effects, Remember Me is at once rock-opera and opera that really rocks.

It's a timeless tale: two rivalrous brothers vie for the love of a single woman. But REMEMBER ME, the ambitious new collaboration between Parsons Dance Company and the East Village Opera Company (EVOC), is anything but old-fashioned. Combining contemporary dance with live and recorded music as well as video projections, aerial choreography and special effects, Remember Me is at once rock-opera and opera that really rocks.

Elizabethan Concert - 1st November Shakespeare By The Bay Festival in Sandgate In collaboration with 4MBS (producers of the Shakespeare by the Bay Festival), Music By The Sea presents - Elizabethan Concert - with 'The Badinerie Players' performing English music from Shakespeare's lifetime by composers such as: Robert Johnson, John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Christopher Tye, Giovanni Buonamente, Henry Purcell, William Byrd and others...

Ars Lyrica's 2009-2010 season offers a fantastic musical excursion: London, Naples, Paris, and Rome await - and you don't need to get on an airplane or pack a bag! Our musical 'Grand Tour' follows a path trod by generations of young people to soak up the culture of distant nations.

'The Dido Project' takes Henry Purcell's legendary English opera, Dido and 'neas, to new heights by setting it in our current, high-tech, information-driven world. Through a combination of video projections, audio recording and live performance, we will witness Dido's actions and glimpse her inner thoughts and feelings on her journey from untouchable power to absolute ruin. Led by theatre and opera director Pat Diamond, 'The Dido Project' features the creative talents of some of the most original artists in music and theatre today, including the renowned Sybarite Chamber Players and rising opera stars David Adam Moore and Blythe Gaissert. This will be a rare opportunity to see a project of high musical and visual quality as a free, public installation. By bringing together music, visual art, theatre and technology, 'The Dido Project' will carry the beauty, humanity, and emotion of Purcell's opera into the twenty-first Century and make it accessible and relevant to today's audiences.

In an exclusive four-week engagement at the Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th Street, the Nightlife, MAC and Bistro Award-winner Karen Kohler stars in Little Death, a provocative new musical performance exploring the erotic synergies between sex and death.

In an exclusive four-week engagement at the Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th Street, the Nightlife, MAC and Bistro Award-winner Karen Kohler stars in Little Death, a provocative new musical performance exploring the erotic synergies between sex and death.

Henry Purcell's King Arthur, with libretto by John Dryden, premieres on Wednesday, March 5 at 7PM, opening the company's spring season with a gala to follow.

London sources are reporting that Michael Ball will fill in for 'several weeks' for Michael Crawford in the Woman in White while he recovers from the flu. Ball steps in February 22, Crawford expected to return April 4.