Christine Brewer News

Over three days of preliminary auditions on February 13-15, 2012, ninety of the best young American and Canadian opera singers will compete to reach the final round of the 41st annual George London Foundation Awards Competition.

Three outstanding maestros-Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, and Stephane Deneve-will each conduct a program by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in its annual visits to Carnegie Hall this March, with music ranging from large-scale Romantic choral music to twentieth-century Russian works. Between the second and third BSO programs, the Boston Pops returns to Carnegie Hall with conductor Keith Lockhart for the first time since 2000, for a program featuring the acclaimed trio Time for Three (making its Carnegie Hall debut) and a special tribute to the "King of Swing," Benny Goodman, featuring BSO clarinetist Thomas Martin.

Over three days of preliminary auditions on February 13-15, 2012, ninety of the best young American and Canadian opera singers will compete to reach the final round of the 41st annual George London Foundation Awards Competition.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra President Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D., announced today that the contract for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles will be extended for two years, through the 2013-14 season.

Dominant as ever in the concert hall this winter, Christine Brewer - styled "the ideal modern Wagnerian soprano" by the Los Angeles Times - joins the San Francisco Symphony and guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for three concert performances of excerpts from Gotterdammerung, the closing chapter of Wagner's monumental Ring cycle (Dec 8-10). Following her recent account of the German composer's Wesendonck Lieder with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, "a performance that was a model of vocal allure and musical intelligence" (South Florida Classical Review), Brewer reprises the work - coupled with Beethoven's "Ah! perfido" - with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ward Stare (Jan 20 & 21). She returns to Beethoven for four performances of the Missa solemnis with the Boston Symphony led by Kurt Masur, first at the orchestra's Boston home (Feb 23-25) and then at New York's Carnegie Hall (March 6). Early in the new year, the "superlative Strauss singer" (New York Times) assays the great late Romantic's Four Last Songs with the St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson (Jan 13 & 14).

Dominant as ever in the concert hall this winter, Christine Brewer - styled "the ideal modern Wagnerian soprano" by the Los Angeles Times - joins the San Francisco Symphony and guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for three concert performances of excerpts from Gotterdammerung, the closing chapter of Wagner's monumental Ring cycle (Dec 8-10). Following her recent account of the German composer's Wesendonck Lieder with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, "a performance that was a model of vocal allure and musical intelligence" (South Florida Classical Review), Brewer reprises the work - coupled with Beethoven's "Ah! perfido" - with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Ward Stare (Jan 20 & 21). She returns to Beethoven for four performances of the Missa solemnis with the Boston Symphony led by Kurt Masur, first at the orchestra's Boston home (Feb 23-25) and then at New York's Carnegie Hall (March 6). Early in the new year, the "superlative Strauss singer" (New York Times) assays the great late Romantic's Four Last Songs with the St. Louis Symphony under David Robertson (Jan 13 & 14).

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.'

The Old Opera House Theatre Company will present City of Angels- A musical-comedy by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman and David Zippel

Francesco Hong - who was scheduled to appear as Calaf in Turandot at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic - has cancelled due to laryngitis.

Francesco Hong - who was scheduled to appear as Calaf in Turandot at the Hollywood Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic - has cancelled due to laryngitis.

WHAT: Music Director Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances featuring internationally acclaimed soloists Lang Lang (July 12 & July 14), Gil Shaham (July 19), and Pinchas Zukerman (July 21) and a concert version of Puccini's Turandot (July 17) to launch the 2011 Classical Series at the Hollywood Bowl.

The George London Foundation for Singers has been honoring, supporting, and presenting the finest young opera singers in the U.S. and Canada for decades.

American soprano Christine Brewer takes on her newest challenge on July 17 at the hallowed Hollywood Bowl, debuting in the iconic title role of Puccini's Turandot in a concert performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel.

Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Children's Chorus and soloists in a concert production of Puccini's Turandot at the Hollywood Bowl.

Gene & Shelley Enlow Recital Hall at Kean University (Enlow Hall) announces its second concert season with a line-up of 15 performances featuring world-renowned musicians in classical, jazz, pop and world music, highlighted by a special one-evening concert by Grammy® Award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend.