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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 26, 2023
The New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum, will present American Invention on Sunday, February 19 at 3 PM at Christ & St. Stephen's Church, featuring vibrant American choral music from the 18th century to today.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 20, 2023
The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York's leading cultural venues, will present Sean Shibe, guitar, plays Barrios, Villa-Lobos, Adès, Birtwistle, and more, on February 8, 2023 at 7:30pm ET at the Kaufmann Concert Hall.

by A.A. Cristi - Jan 6, 2023
Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble has announced the world premiere of BABA: The Life and Death of Stana, authored, composed and directed by Karmina Šilec. BABA is a new opera inspired by the lives of sworn virgins of the Balkan Highlands, women who live as men after taking vows of celibacy.

by Richard Sasanow - Jan 6, 2023
There’s more contemporary opera in New York these days than there used to be and I’ll drink to that. But there’s nothing else that does it with the panache of the PROTOTYPE Festival, the brainchild of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 28, 2022
The 10th Anniversary PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now season will resume January 5 - 15, 2023 after it was postponed due to the ongoing pandemic.

by Stephi Wild - Nov 23, 2022
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has announced their Concert Season for 2023 – a year-long celebration marking 20 years of leadership by Artistic & Music Director Brett Weymark OAM.

by A.A. Cristi - Nov 16, 2022
On December 9, 2022, acclaimed GRAMMY-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 29th album Carols after a Plague, on New Focus Recordings (physical album available January 6, 2023).

by A.A. Cristi - Nov 15, 2022
Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director of The Canticum Novum Singers, has announced the first two performances of their 2022-23 New York City and Westchester concert season, which will be The Canticum Novum Singers' 50th and final season.

by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 6, 2022
On Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 7pm, composer and instrumentalist Ben Neill will present his immersive electronic opera Fantini Futuro at Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, located at 261 Mott Street in New York. This one night only performance also acts as the premiere of the opera's full presentation, as well as a benefit for restoring the church's historic organs.

by A.A. Cristi - Nov 1, 2022
Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing's holiday tradition The Crossing @ Christmas returns with two concerts featuring the world premiere of Ochre by Caroline Shaw alongside Mass Transmission by Mason Bates on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Rittenhouse Square (co-presented by Penn Live Arts) and on Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill.
David Lang Videos


by Stage Tube - Jun 7, 2019
Last night Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the World Premiere performance of David Lang's prisoner of the state - a fully staged reimagining of Beethoven's Fidelio, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. The program concludes the Orchestra's three-week Music of Conscience series, exploring how composers respond to the social and political issues of their times.


by Alan Henry - Sep 20, 2018
Ashley Fure composed Filament as a site-specific work for the opening of the Philharmonic's 2018-19 season, placing the musicians among the audience at David Geffen Hall. Listen to Fure talk about the composition below!


by Alan Henry - May 21, 2018
A chorus of some 800 experienced and amateur singers will premiere John Luther Adams's In the Name of the Earth in Central Park's Harlem Meer. The performance builds on two highly acclaimed outdoor world premieres commissioned previously for the Mostly Mozart Festival: 2014's Sila: The Breath of the World, also by John Luther Adams, and David Lang's the public domain, which marked the 50th anniversary of the Mostly Mozart Festival in 2016. Simon Halsey, who led the performance of the public domain, returns to the festival to conduct In the Name of the Earth.
by Stage Tube - Dec 2, 2016
Four voices. Two dancers. One incredible experience. Venture outside the ordinary with The Little Match Girl Passion, David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning choral work. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen fable of the Little Match Girl, this tale of tragedy and transformation is brought vividly to life in our stunning new production. Featuring four of Seattle's most critically acclaimed voices and the lyrical, hip-hop choreography of UJ Mangune, our production of David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-Winning masterpiece is an intimate, unforgettable evening of music and dance.
by Stage Tube - Sep 13, 2016
In the video below, go backstage with Zoe Doano, who plays Cosette in the West End production of Les Miserables, as she chats with the cast and crew and goes in-depth on the show's costumes!
by Stage Tube - Sep 24, 2013
Acclaimed nationwide for eclectic programming and virtuoso performances, string quartet ETHEL returns to the BAM Next Wave Festival to premiere its largest and most ambitious undertaking to date,Documerica. Inspired by the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Documerica-a massive 'snapshot' of America showcased in an astonishing archive of images captured during the recession-plagued, tumultuous 1970s-this multimedia meditation interweaves over 3,000 vintage photographs with commissioned contemporary music for a landmark work.
by Stage Tube - Jul 15, 2013
Artistic and General Director Francesca Zambello discusses The Glimmerglass Festival's 2013 production of PASSIONS, which features David Lang's 'the little match girl passion' and Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater' directed and choreographed by Jessica Lang with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and Nadine Sierra. Click below to watch the behind-the-scenes video!