Ottorino Respighi News

This summer, 20 years since its celebration of Tchaikovsky, the 29th annual Bard Music Festival once again trains its focus on one of Russian Romanticism's most seminal composers, with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Rimsky-Korsakov and His World.”

Alison Cook Beatty Dance will perform HUMANITAS, THE EMOTIONS PROJECT, THE UNINVITED GUEST, and WHALE (world premiere). The ninety-minute performance will include two intermissions. Guest artists Kitty Lunn and Winston Dynamite Brown will be performing short works with Ms. Cook-Beatty as well.

The Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director and Conductor, will be in concert on Thursday, March 1 @ 7:30 PM, performing Vivaldi, Monteverdi, and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, the third concert of its 10th Anniversary 2017-2018 Masterworks series at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

Conducting with a combination of precise hand signals and smooth sweeping arm gestures, Jader Bignamini went all-out to please and entertain in his guest appearance with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, and he succeeded. The familiar works he selected seemed to form a spectacular five-movement concerto for orchestra.

Lyric Opera is proud to present tenor Piotr Becza a, one of the most sought-after artists of our time, in an intimate recital at the Lyric Opera House on Sunday, February 25 at 3pm. He will be joined by renowned pianist Martin Katz. Tickets for Piotr Becza a in Recital start at $35 and are on sale now atlyricopera.org/beczala or by calling 312-827-5600.

Occasionally a concert of stalwart popular favorites reminds you of what made them so special in the first place - providing a fresh look at a familiar landscape. The program presented by the New Jersey Symphony, under the baton of Musical Director Xian Zhang, at Bergen PAC on January 13th, did just that, reminding the rapt audience just how electrifying the standard repertory can be in the proper hands.

The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the Golden Globe-winning Amazon Originals show Mozart in the Jungle, announces the continuation of its 2017/18 season, entitled Sea Change, with concerts on January 26 and 27 featuring a World Premiere by Eric Lemmon, Camille Saint-Sa ns' Violin Concerto No. 3 featuring violinist Deborah Nixon (1/26 only), the World Premiere of Michael Colina's Isles of Shoals featuring flutist Michelle Stockman (1/27 only), and Jean Sibelius' Symphony No. 5.

See the full schedule of January and February events at Carnegie Hall below!

The Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director and Conductor, will be in concert today, December 9 at 8:00 PM, performing Strauss, Thomas Tallis Fantasia, and Grieg's Holberg Suite, the second concert of its 10th Anniversary 2017-2018 Masterworks series at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the hit Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle, announces the continuation of its 2017/18 season, entitled Sea Change, with a holiday concert on December 1 featuring special guest, comedian Judy Gold, narrating The Night Before Christmas by composer Aaron Dai.

The Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director and Conductor, will be in concert on Saturday, December 9 at 8:00 PM, performing Strauss, Thomas Tallis Fantasia, and Grieg's Holberg Suite, the second concert of its 10th Anniversary 2017-2018 Masterworks series at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the hit Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle, announces the continuation of its 2017/18 season, entitled Sea Change, with a holiday concert on December 1 featuring special guest, comedian Judy Gold, narrating The Night Before Christmas by composer Aaron Dai.

Following spectacular fall programming like the triple-header of Mozart's Requiem this weekend and a very special Jazz @ The Jacobs series kickoff on Nov. 25, The First Lady of Song: An Ella Fitzgerald Tribute, the San Diego Symphony is set to deliver a particularly memorable holiday season with special festive concerts throughout December and into the new year. There's no doubt that music plays a big part in making it feel like the holidays, and these concerts will make a trip to the Symphony one of your favorite holiday traditions if it isn't one already:

The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the hit Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle, announces the continuation of its 2017/18 season, entitled Sea Change, with concerts on October 27 and 28.

Prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova, Principal of the Bolshoi Theatre and toile at La Scala Theatre Ballet brings her new triple bill AMORE to the Coliseum in November. Check out the trailer below!

Carnegie Hall has announced that the sold-out performance by the Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), led by Music Director Antonio Pappano in his Carnegie Hall debut and featuring pianist Martha Argerich, scheduled for tonight, Friday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. EST, will be webcast live free of charge to a worldwide audience on medici.tv and carnegiehall.org/medici.

Led by Music Director Sir Antonio Pappano, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia tours to the United States this October for the first time in nearly 50 years, performing at Carnegie Hall in New York (October 20 & 21), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. (October 25), Symphony Hall in Boston (October 22), and Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in Rochester (October 23).

The Chelsea Symphony, featured in the hit Amazon show Mozart in the Jungle, announces the continuation of its 2017/18 season, entitled Sea Change, with concerts on October 27 and 28.

On Sunday, October 29 at 4 pm, the New York-based LARK Quartet, which counts Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) concertmaster Basia Danilow among its members, joins the PSO to perform Erwin Schulhoff's Concerto for String Quartet and Winds, WV97 on a program with Ottorino Respighi's Gli uccelli and Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 Reformation. Rossen Milanov conducts the afternoon concert at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.

This September, Festival Ballet Providence (FBP) kicks off its 40th Anniversary Season with Pippi. Part of the Company s popular chatterBOXtheatre series, the family-friendly ballet is based on Astrid Lindgren's beloved Pippi Longstocking books.