Christine Brewer News

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 final program of Alan Gilbert's inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic will be broadcast live, Thursday, June 24, 2010, on 'The New York Philharmonic This Week', a two-hour national, weekly radio program of concerts by the Philharmonic.

The Old Opera House Theatre Company in historic Charles Town, WV presents the 10th Annual New Voice Place Festival, featuring the premier of four one-act plays Friday & Saturday, June 25 & 26 at 8:00pm and Sunday, June 27 at 2:30pm.

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

Alan Gilbert will conclude his first season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic conducting two works: AL LARGO, a World Premiere-New York Philharmonic Commission by Magnus Lindberg, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in- Residence, and Beethoven's MISSA SOLEMNIS, Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, June 26, at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Gilbert will also conduct the Philharmonic in the Beethoven MISSA SOLEMNIS at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, June 25, 2010, at 8:00 p.m.

American soprano Christine Brewer returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in a recital of songs by a diverse lineup of composers, Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p.m. She is joined by pianist Craig Rutenberg making his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut. The Colburn Celebrity Series event is the final series performance of the LA Phil's 2009/10 season.

American soprano Christine Brewer returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in a recital of songs by a diverse lineup of composers, Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p.m. She is joined by pianist Craig Rutenberg making his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut. The Colburn Celebrity Series event is the final series performance of the LA Phil's 2009/10 season.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

Pianist Emanuel Ax returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in a recital featuring piano works by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, Tuesday, April 20, at 8 p.m. The program also presents the West coast premiere of an LA Phil-co-commissioned new work from composer Thomas Adès, Three Mazurkas. The Colburn Celebrity Series event is the final of the three recitals featured in the On Location: Emanuel Ax residency, which explores the dual bicentennials of Schumann and Chopin.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

On March 25, 2010, General Director Brian Dickie announced Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) 2011 Spring Festival Season: the Midwest Premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, the Chicago Premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea (Médée), and 'HE/SHE' featuring Leoš Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého) and Robert Schumann's A Woman's Love and Life (Frauenliebe und Leben).

On March 25, 2010, General Director Brian Dickie announced Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) 2011 Spring Festival Season: the Midwest Premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, the Chicago Premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea (Médée), and 'HE/SHE' featuring Leoš Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého) and Robert Schumann's A Woman's Love and Life (Frauenliebe und Leben).

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

The St. Louis Musicians for Haiti concert was amazing, raising over $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders! Re-live the magic again on HEC-TV (Channel 26/AT&T U-Verse Channel 99), with re-broadcats every Saturday night in March at 5 p.m.!

An all-star line-up of St. Louis musicians, plus dozens of local visual artists, help to raise over $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders' Haitian earthquake relief efforts though the Notes From Home "St. Louis Musicians for Haiti" concert.

Watch the St. Louis Musicians for Haiti Benefit Live on HEC-TV! Hosted by Julius Hunter and featuring Brian Owens, Mayor Taylor, Bottoms up Blues Gang, Peter Martin, Mardra and Reggie Thomas, Kim Massie, Christine Brewer and Peter Henderson, an All-Star line-up of St. Louis musicians donate their time and talents for a one-night-only concert event to raise money for Haitian earthquake relief.

The University of Florida Performing Arts Center has announced upcoming events from February - April for the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts University Auditorium and the Alan & Carol Squitieri Studio Theatre.

Robert Breig makes his solo cabaret debut with 'Feels Like Home,' featuring songs by Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, and Kenny Loggins. In this show, Robert goes after a warm hearth and mulled wine on a cold winter night, with everyone gathered 'round for a night of contemporary song and story.