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The Canadian Opera Company marked its return-to-stage after nearly two years with this all-around stunning production of one of Verdi’s most well-known works.
The Dallas Opera's production of Bizet's THE PEARL FISHERS acts as a satisfying palate cleanser, providing the talent audiences have come to expect from the company as well as a dream of a show.
UCO's opera department offers a cautionary tale.
The 2013 production of Tchaikovsky's Pushkin-inspired opera EUGENE ONEGIN has triumphantly returned to the Met.
Violin, dance, opera singers and the sounds of Nina Simone are just a few possible experiences you can have at one time at The Blue Building.
When he was four-years old Joshua Bell's parents found him making music by plucking rubber bands stretched to different lengths on dresser drawers.
In their recent concert, the Colorado Symphony opened with Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra before moving on to Mozart's Piano Concerto No.
Nelson Riddle, the legendary arranger/orchestrator/composer is largely responsible for what we think of as the sound of The Great American Songbook.
I love seeing in the arts when a company takes a classic work and reimagines it for a modern audience.
A romantic burlesque turns out to be an abstract path to nothingness through perverse vanity.
The Washington National Opera has gathered a company of first rate singers for a portmanteau of four, one-act operas called Written in Stone.
I flipped over Lise Davidsen when she made her Met debut in QUEEN OF SPADES—the voice, the acting, the overall subtlety--but I was still unprepared for the performance she gave as the Prima Donna who became Princess Ariadne of Crete in Strauss’s ARIADNE AUF NAXOS.
The La Jolla Music Society has been bringing some of the world’s best string quartets into the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad.
I suppose it’s true you can always find our way back home, especially if home is where the heart is, as they say.
I admire the plucky inventiveness of the San Diego Opera.
Bold new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s iconic rendering of the classic Greek tragedy
It's not every day that Audra McDonald stands twenty feet in front of you and says, 'Tonight, we are all a part of history.
I was fortunate enough to get to head down to DeVos Hall for the first live event I have been to there in over two years, the last being to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the week the tour was put on pause due to Covid.
With only 3 days of rehearsal, Ms.
A Candlelight Christmas is a warm and welcoming way to spend a holiday evening, with something for everyone to enjoy.
Under the direction of their superb artistic director and conductor, Tony Award winner Ted Sperling, MasterVoices’ 100+ members presented “A Joyful Noise” as their 80th Season opener.
Although they don’t fill stadiums violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Yuja Wang are classical music’s equivalent of huge pop stars.
The famed Dessoff Choirs, conducted by Malcolm J.
For the first time in almost seven years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG.
The imposing mezzo soprano Stephanie Blythe is known for her roles in Wagner, Verdi and Stravinsky.
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American Composers Orchestra: New Virtuoso: Low End Theory at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (3/18-3/18) |
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Victor Santiago Asuncion Carnegie Hall (11/10-11/10) |
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Grand Choral Opening: War & Requiem Church of the Ascension (10/29-10/29) |
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NYFOS Next: This Now Naked Life The Theater at 150 W 17th Street (11/15-11/15) |
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American Composers Orchestra: Hello, America: We Gather Here at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (10/27-10/27) |
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New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis (10/20-10/20) |
