Birth Place: Halle, GERMANY
Alonzo King LINES Ballet, the San Francisco-based, internationally celebrated contemporary ballet company, is pleased to present an expanded Spring Season in two iconic San Francisco venues: Grace Cathedral & Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, Alcina, is a malicious sorceress who lives on an enchanted island with her sister Morgana. Alcina uses her magic spells to trick men into falling in love with her. But once she tires of them, she turns them into animals or inanimate objects.
The talented New York Baroque Incorporated, makes its Miller debut with a program reflecting the life of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the godfather of French opera. NYBI explores works shaped by the style, structure, and spectacle of his music as well as his multicultural upbringing, with music by Mondonville, Telemann, Muffat, and Handel.
Works & Process, the performing arts series at the Guggenheim,presents The Metropolitan Opera's Agrippina by George Frideric Handel with Harry Bicket, Joyce DiDonato, and David McVicar on Monday, January 20, 2020 at 7:30pm.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine presents Fantasias and Carols: A Cathedral Christmas on Saturday, December 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan. The Cathedral Choirs will join forces under the leadership of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and one of America's leading choral conductors, and Bryan Zaros, Associate Choirmaster. This signature event is one of many comprising the 2019-2020 season of Great Music in a Great Space.
In 1874, a one-year-old organization called the Oratorio Society of New York performed Handel's Messiah on Christmas night at Steinway Hall, then on East 14th Street. Earlier that year, New York City made its first move to grow beyond Manhattan by annexing the 'West Bronx.'
Works & Process at the Guggenheim has announced its spring 2020 season. Since 1984, the performing arts series has championed new works and offered audiences unprecedented access to leading creators. The intimate Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater is the venue for these seventy-minute programs that explorethe creative process through stimulating discussions and riveting performance highlights. One-of-a-kind productions created for the Guggenheim's rotunda offer a unique experience of the landmark museum. Additional information is available at worksandprocess.org.
Alcina is a Baroque masterpiece by George Frideric Handel. The title character, Alcina, is a malicious sorceress who lives on an enchanted island with her sister Morgana. Alcina uses her magic spells to trick men into falling in love with her. But once she tires of them, she turns them into animals or inanimate objects.
Early Music Vancouver (EMV) invites audiences to celebrate the festive season with the much-anticipated return of Handel's Messiah, on November 30, 2019 at 7:30pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Following the dramatic success of EMV's 2017 production, celebrated guest conductor Ivars Taurins travels from Toronto to lead the combined forces of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra (PBO), the Vancouver Cantata Singers, and four internationally acclaimed vocalists in a thrilling period instrument performance of the all-time seasonal favourite.
A holiday tradition returns to Boston as the Handel and Haydn Society performs the dazzling and joyous Handel's Messiah. The performance is a hallmark of the H+H season that dates to its first concert in 1815 which featured the famed a?oeHallelujaha?? chorus. Conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, the concerts will take place Friday, November 29 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 30, 2019 and Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 3 p.m. at Symphony Hall in Boston.
The Drottningholms Slottstteater in Stockholm has announced its main production for the summer of 2020 will be a new staging of Agrippina by George Frideric Handel.
The Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra will celebrate the intersection of music and art in the presentation of Studio Concerts, performing jewels of the Baroque era in the intimate setting of acclaimed artist Jonathan Sherman's Marblehead studio on November 9, 2019.
In his second season as principal conductor, Bernard Labadie leads Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) in its 33rd concert series in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. The series begins with Italian pianist Beatrice Rana joining OSL for two Bach keyboard concertos on Thursday, October 17 at 8:00 p.m. The program is bookended by two works by Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture and a?oeScottisha?? Symphony.
San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Chronicle present the latest edition of the annual Opera in the Park concert at 1:30 pm on Sunday, September 8, 2019.
Juilliard's Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts, under the leadership of artistic director Brian Zeger, announces its 2019-20 season of opera and vocal arts performances. Highlights of the upcoming season include three mainstage operas: Mozart's Così fan tutte, conducted by alumnus Nimrod David Pfeffer and directed by faculty member David Paul, on November 13, 15, and 17, 2019, in Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater; Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's MetLiveArts and the New York Philharmonic with Juilliard singers, conducted by Daniela Candillari and directed by Louisa Proske, on February 8, 11, 12, and 14, 2020, in the Charles Engelhard Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Puccini's La bohème, conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson and directed by Stephen Wadsworth, on April 22, 24, and 26, 2020, in Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater.
Nottingham Playhouse is taking over the city's esteemed Albert Hall with a company of over 100 local performers and creatives in its biggest-ever live community production.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company marks its 18th Pillow appearance with The Celebration Tour, an exclusively Taylor-choreographed program to commemorate the passing of their founder, July 24-28 in the Ted Shawn Theatre. Having created 147 original works over the course of his celebrated career, Paul Taylor is remembered for dances that capture life's joys and tackle some of society's most complex issues. The New York Times has praised Mr. Taylor as 'one of the most singular and searching imaginations of our time,' and remembers him as one who 'brought a lyrical musicality, capacity for joy, and wide poetic imagination to modern dance over six decades.' The Celebration Tour's Pillow program includes, Aureole, Concertiana, and Promethean Fire, and features archival footage of the Taylor company performing at Jacob's Pillow.
Juilliard Historical Performance, the school's graduate-level, full-tuition scholarship program for early music enters its 10th anniversary season with a full schedule of concerts and tours. Its primary period-instrument ensemble, Juilliard415, will be working with distinguished artists Paul Agnew, Kristian Bezuidenhout, William Christie, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan, Robert Mealy, Rachel Podger, and Masaaki Suzuki, and making his Juilliard415 debut, Pablo Heras-Casado. The season also features international appearances in Paris at the Philharmonie de Paris and in Germany at the Gottingen Handel Festival as well as a second tour of New Zealand.
After watching the beautiful Lydia Johnson Dance program last night, June 7, 2019, I had this whim: what if Lydia Johnson was currently meeting with Louis Horst, one of the 20th century's internationally renowned choreography pedagogues.
Rare as it is to hear Handel's opera 'Serse' at all - it was scarcely performed at all for 200 years following its 1738 debut - it's even more unusual to hear it melded to the poetry of Rumi, the Sufi mystic who predated the composer by half a millennium.
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