Robert Schumann News

Ravinia Festival presents a grand finale of concerts as the 2010 summer season comes to a close, including New York-based chamber ensemble The Knights making their Ravinia debut at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Martin Theatre.

Hailing from Mazatlan, Mexico, dance company Delfos Danza Contemporánea makes its Ravinia debut on Friday, Aug. 27, with the piece When Disguises Are Hung Up (Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan), with additional performances at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28 and 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 29.

Ravinia Festival presents a grand finale of concerts as the 2010 summer season comes to a close, including New York-based chamber ensemble The Knights making their Ravinia debut at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2, in the Martin Theatre.

Violinist Julia Fischer's recording of Paganini's 24 Caprices will be released by Decca in the U.S. digitally on August 31 exclusively at iTunes with the recording available in full distribution on September 7.

Hailing from Mazatlan, Mexico, dance company Delfos Danza Contemporánea makes its Ravinia debut on Friday, Aug. 27, with the piece When Disguises Are Hung Up (Cuando los Difraces se Cuelgan), with additional performances at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 28 and 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 29.

On Friday, Aug. 13, the very date that wild-West legend Annie Oakley would have celebrated her 150th birthday, Ravinia opens its three-day run of Irving Berlin's hit-filled Broadway classic Annie Get Your Gun.

On Friday, Aug. 13, the very date that wild-West legend Annie Oakley would have celebrated her 150th birthday, Ravinia opens its three-day run of Irving Berlin's hit-filled Broadway classic Annie Get Your Gun.

On Friday, Aug. 13, the very date that wild-West legend Annie Oakley would have celebrated her 150th birthday, Ravinia opens its three-day run of Irving Berlin's hit-filled Broadway classic Annie Get Your Gun.

Marc Geller joins the cast of Michael DeVito's IN LOCO PARENTIS in FringeNYC. Accomplished actor and director Marc Geller has joined the cast of IN LOCO PARENTIS in the pivotal role of Oliver Price.

Ravinia celebrates opera with Mozart's Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by James Conlon and joined by all-star casts as well as members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Both operas will be presented in the Martin Theatre and will receive two performances, Così on Aug. 5 and 7 and Figaro on Aug. 6 and 8. Cosi fan tutte features 'one of America's finest artists and singers' (New York Times), mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, portraying Despina; Grammy Award winning soprano Ana Maria Martinez, who last appeared at Ravinia with Plácido Domingo at the festival's 2007 Gala, as Fiordiligi; Romanian mezzo-soprano Ruxandra Donose, who recently appeared as Veronica Quaife in The Fly at L.A. Opera, making her Ravinia debut as Dorabella; Russian baritone Rodion Pogosov, who made his Metropolitan Opera debut playing Papageno in the 2004 production of Die Zauberflöte, portraying Guglielmo in his festival debut; and Albanian tenor Saimir Pirgu, who made his US debut singing Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi at LA Opera, conducted by Conlon and directed by Woody Allen, appearing as Ferrando in his festival debut.

Caramoor International Music Festival celebrates the bicentennials of legendary composers Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann in a three-concert series showcasing a selection of their greatest works.

Caramoor International Music Festival celebrates the bicentennials of legendary composers Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann in a three-concert series showcasing a selection of their greatest works.

London's Wigmore Hall celebrates its 110th Anniversary during the 2010-2011 Season. For one hundred ten years, the Hall has served the global musical community, of extending a 550-seat venue's reach across oceans and continents, launching careers of the next generation of musicians, presenting a familiar and beloved stage for familiar and beloved artists, and offering repertory not often heard on other stages.

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) presented Twin Spirits, a special New York performance celebrating the 200th birthday of composer Robert Schumann, last night, June 30. The event was broadcast LIVE on SIRIUS XM Pops - satellite radio's home for Classical's Greatest Hits. BroadwayWorld was on hand to capture the event.

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) announced today (on the actual date of Robert Schumann's 200th birthday) that it will present a very special New York performance celebrating the 200th birthday of composer Robert Schumann with a special performance of Twin Spirits, an intimate theatrical event devised and directed for the stage by Tony Award-winner John Caird, and featuring Sting, Trudie Styler and Joshua Bell, among other artists, on Thursday, June 30, 7:30 p.m, at The Allen Room at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center on Broadway at 60th Street, New York City.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the crown jewel of Ravinia's classical programming, begins its 74th annual summer residency at the festival with a concert at 8 p.m. on Monday, June 28, featuring piano virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson and conducted by Ravinia Music Director James Conlon.

Caramoor International Music Festival celebrates the bicentennials of legendary composers Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann in a three-concert series showcasing a selection of their greatest works.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the crown jewel of Ravinia's classical programming, begins its 74th annual summer residency at the festival with a concert at 8 p.m. on Monday, June 28, featuring piano virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson and conducted by Ravinia Music Director James Conlon.

The 2010 Indiana University Summer Music Festival on the IU Bloomington campus will feature more than 50 free and ticketed events running from June 19 through Aug. 10.

Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director) announced today that David Strathairn will narrate Twin Spirits, a very special New York performance celebrating the 200th birthday of composer Robert Schumann.