James Martin Music/Dance, in collaboration with pianist Eliza Garth, presents The Enchanted Piano: Dances for Piano with Electronics, Piano Strings, and Amplified Piano on October 21 and 22 at 8pm at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area.
After Christine Brewer opened her season in a program of Wagner and Beethoven with the Atlanta Symphony, the Atlanta Journal Constitution marveled, 'Brewer's soprano is an instrument of rare luxury and power, at once silken, roaring, luminous,' and compared her to 'the great Wagnerians from legend.'
Stephen Costello continues his winning run as Lord Percy opposite Anna Netrebko in the title role of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena this Saturday, October 15, in a matinee performance that will be transmitted to movie theaters worldwide in the company's popular 'Live in HD' series.
Merging the vanguard of Polish theatre artists with America's most innovative contemporary music composers, Mozart's Sister tells the story of the keyboard virtuoso, composer, and child prodigy in her own right - Nannerl Mozart. This other Mozart toured throughout Europe, performing side by side with her brother Amadeus, to equal acclaim. Yet none of her compositions have survived and today hardly anyone knows she existed. Using Nannerl's own letters and those of her family, the performance investigates how this female prodigy, this Mozart, faded from the world - and whether this loss was inevitable.
Portland Ovations brings the performing arts to the streets during the First Friday Art Walk with a performance along Congress Street by Asphalt Orchestra.
James Martin Music/Dance, in collaboration with pianist Eliza Garth, presents The Enchanted Piano: Dances for Piano with Electronics, Piano Strings, and Amplified Piano on October 21 and 22 at 8pm at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center at 248 W. 60th Street, NYC (between Amsterdam and West End Avenues) in the Lincoln Center area.
Violinist Jennifer Koh will perform all six of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin at the Academy of Arts and Letters presented by Columbia University's Miller Theatre on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm.
Portland Ovations brings the performing arts to the streets during the October 7th First Friday Art Walk with a performance along Congress Street by Asphalt Orchestra.
To kick off the 2011-12 season, Susan Graham - 'America's favorite mezzo' (Gramophone magazine) - makes her much-anticipated Canadian Opera Company debut on Thursday, September 22, headlining the company premiere of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride with the role that has become her 'calling card' (New York Times).
Deborah Voigt launches her 2011-12 season on September 21 when she joins the New York Philharmonic in its season-opening gala in a performance to be broadcast live on public television's Live From Lincoln Center.
American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, in association with the Brooklyn Book Festival, present Opera Grows in BOOKlyn! Music based on the works of contemporary Brooklyn writers
Peerless bass René Pape - honored last season as a 'Mastersinger' by the Metropolitan Opera for such triumphs as his universally acclaimed Boris Godunov - launches his 2011-12 season on September 18, when he stars as Méphistophélès in the all-star David McVicar production of Gounod's Faust at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Peerless bass René Pape - honored last season as a 'Mastersinger' by the Metropolitan Opera for such triumphs as his universally acclaimed Boris Godunov - launches his 2011-12 season on September 18, when he stars as Méphistophélès in the all-star David McVicar production of Gounod's Faust at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
American Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, in association with the Brooklyn Book Festival, present Opera Grows in BOOKlyn! Music based on the works of contemporary Brooklyn writers
2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.
On Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 8pm the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and Gregory Beaver, cello) will perform at Trinity Wall Street Church (Broadway at Wall Street, NYC).