Constantine Kitsopoulos News

Based on DuBose Heyward's novel 'Porgy' and the play of the same name, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward, the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess is a stunning and stirring new staging with a magnificent 23-piece orchestra, including such legendary songs as 'Summertime,' 'It Ain't Necessarily So,' and 'I Got Plenty of Nothing.'

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra hosts its 2014 Spring into Music Gala on Saturday, April 26, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. The event includes cocktails, dinner and a silent auction, followed by an NJSO POPS concert featuring a screening of The Wizard of Oz with live orchestral accompaniment. The gala's honorees are former Governor Brendan Byrne and his wife, Ruthi, in honor of the Governor's 90th birthday. Former Governors Richard J. Codey, James J. Florio, Thomas H. Kean and Christine Todd Whitman are honorary gala chairs.

The most recent version of the famous and often controversial opera, PORGY AND BESS by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin, re-titled as THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, is now playing at DC's National Theatre through Dec. 29, 2013. The opera, which has garnered scores of awards since its first performance in 1935, has been re-mounted by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge with a creative team including Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who adapted the book, and Dierdre L. Murray, who adapted the musical score. THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS opened on Broadway in 2011.

For sixty years since its inception, the Queens Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has been delighting local audiences with performances of symphonic music. Beginning in October, QSO will offer a family concert series open to all, and appropriate for all ages, at the LeFrak Concert Hall, located in Flushing on the campus of Queens College.

For sixty years since its inception, the Queens Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has been delighting local audiences with performances of symphonic music. Beginning in October, QSO will offer a family concert series open to all, and appropriate for all ages, at the LeFrak Concert Hall, located in Flushing on the campus of Queens College.

For sixty years since its inception, the Queens Symphony Orchestra (QSO) has been delighting local audiences with performances of symphonic music. Beginning in October, QSO will offer a family concert series open to all, and appropriate for all ages, at the LeFrak Concert Hall, located in Flushing on the campus of Queens College.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents the classic film Casablanca with live orchestral accompaniment in the Orchestra's second NJSO POPS program of the season, tonight, February 9 in Newark and February 10 in New Brunswick. Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos returns to the NJSO stage to conduct the Orchestra as the film screens above the stage.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Peter and the Wolf-the second program of the 2012-13 Family concert series-on Saturday, February 9, at 2 pm at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. Bob McGrath of "Sesame Street" fame narrates Prokofiev's classic tale.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents the classic film Casablanca with live orchestral accompaniment in the Orchestra's second NJSO POPS program of the season, on February 9 in Newark and February 10 in New Brunswick. Conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos returns to the NJSO stage to conduct the Orchestra as the film screens above the stage.

The 7th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca will be presented March 7-16, 2013 by The Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts at the Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real and Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real in Boca Raton, Florida.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) kicked off its first 2011-12 NJSO POPS concert series with 'Home for the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell,' a festive concert program of timeless carols and holiday favorites featuring Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducted; the Masterwork Chorus and New Jersey Youth Chorus joined the Orchestra onstage.

On Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 5:30 p.m., The Little Orchestra Society, under the direction of guest conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos, will present 'Making a Joyful Sound,' a holiday celebration honoring the life and legacy of the late Maestro Dino Anagnost, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (319 E. 74th Street).

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) kicks off its first 2011-12 NJSO POPS concert series with 'Home for the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell'-a festive concert program of timeless carols and holiday favorites featuring Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts; the Masterwork Chorus and New Jersey Youth Chorus also join the Orchestra onstage.

An overflow crowd including many dignitaries from the political, scientific and artistic communities of Austria, the United States and Greece, came to the historic city hall, the Altes Rathaus in Vienna, Austria on Friday, November 4th, 2011 for the presentation of the George 'Best' Costacos Cultural and Cancer Research Foundation's awards.

On Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 5:30 p.m., The Little Orchestra Society, under the direction of guest conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos, will present 'Making a Joyful Sound,' a holiday celebration honoring the life and legacy of the late Maestro Dino Anagnost, at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (319 E. 74th Street).

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) kicks off its first 2011-12 NJSO POPS concert series with 'Home for the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell'-a festive concert program of timeless carols and holiday favorites featuring Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. Constantine Kitsopoulos conducts; the Masterwork Chorus and New Jersey Youth Chorus also join the Orchestra onstage.

International recording artist and soprano phenomenon Jackie Evancho makes her New York concert debut with a performance at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, accompanied by a full symphony orchestra under the baton of Maestro Constantine Kitsopoulos.

International recording artist and soprano phenomenon Jackie Evancho makes her New York concert debut with a performance at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, accompanied by a full symphony orchestra under the baton of Maestro Constantine Kitsopoulos.

Indiana University Opera Theater's second production of the season, A View from the Bridge, by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom, takes the stage at the IU Jacobs School of Music's Musical Arts Center, Oct. 21-22 and 28-29.