The National Ballet Theatre of Odessa, is proud to announce two performances coming to Chicagoland in January 2020. Featuring 55 of Ukraine's top performers, a?oeRomeo & Julieta?? will be performed at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. in Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020 at 3 p.m., and a?oeSwan Lakea?? will be performed at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.. a?oeRomeo & Julieta?? tickets are $55 - $85 , and are available by calling the box office at 312-334-7777 or through www.harristheaterchicago.org. a?oeSwan Lakea?? tickets are $38 - $68 and are available by calling 847-673-6300 or by visiting www.northshorecenter.org.
From January 3-25, 2020, SpeakEasy Stage Company will join with The Front Porch Arts Collective, Boston's only black-led theatre company, to co-produce the New England Premiere of the acclaimed drama PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu.
Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) has announced the recipient of the 2019-20 Cage Cunningham Fellow, lighting designer Jennifer Tipton. This is the fourth award of BAC's distinguished fellowship established in 2015 to support artists who embody John Cage and Merce Cunningham's commitment to artistic innovation.
San Diego Opera's 2019-2020 mainstage season continues with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which opens on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at the San Diego Civic Theatre for four performances.
Alain Altinoglu's contract as Musical Director of la Monnaie has just been extended until 2025, a commitment he will combine with his new position as new Music Director of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony starting from the 2021-2022 season.
OVER TIME - an original play written, produced and starring Alex Ruiz and Vincent Giovanni will open Thursday, December 5th at 8pm at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre located at 5636 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
In a new collaboration, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra welcomes singers from the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program for scenes from Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro in the second week of the 2020 Winter Festival, January 9-12. Edward Berkeley stage directs the performances.
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.
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB), led by conductor Eli Spindel, releases its debut album afterimage on Friday, January 17, 2020 on Furious Artisans. The record features 2020 Grammy-nominated composer Christopher Cerrone's High Windows featuring the SOB and the Argus Quartet; Jacob Cooper's Stabat Mater Dolorosa featuring soprano Mellissa Hughes, mezzo-soprano Kate Maroney, and the SOB; Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 6 in G minor 'The Trill / Tremolo' (Lento) featuring violinist Rachel Lee Priday; and the first movement of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, 'Stabat Mater Dolorosa.'
Wagnerian vaudeville, parody pastiche, and Bayreuth burlesque await guests at DAS RHINESTONE, an evening of serious singing, sequins, and plenty of WTF operatic moments to get you in or distract you from the holiday spirit. Zachary James, appearing courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera, brings Wagner's diva daddy Wotan to glittering, semi-nude life at this one night only event on December 23 at New York's The Slipper Room (167 Orchard Street).
Talents of the World presents its Second Annual Festival at Carnegie Hall! This year we continue with our successful projects: All I Want for Christmas is THREE TENORS! on December 19th (at Weill Hall) at 8PM https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2019/12/19/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-three-tenors-0800pm
With a mix of new writing and all-time classics, Darlington Hippodrome will be the place to visit for passionate, powerful and thought provoking drama, laugh-out-loud comedy, spectacular dance and amazing music in the new Spring 2020 season.
Jérémie Rhorer-Founder and Music Director of Le Cercle de l'Harmonie-returns to Théâtre des Champs-Elysées to conduct American filmmaker James Gray's new production of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, November 26-December 7, 2019. The production marks Rhorer's fifth Mozart opera with Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Gray's operatic directing debut.
The Olivier Award-nominated producers of the 2017 smash-hit La bohème, announce the full cast for the Puccini double-bill, Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème. The production will run at Trafalgar Studios 2 from 5 February to 7 March 2020. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Artistic Director of the King's Head Theatre, will also direct the production, with musical direction from David Eaton. Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème will have national press nights on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 February 2020 for the two casts.
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny will portray the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni December 3-8. Unfortunately, Davide Luciano has suffered a torn muscle requiring several weeks of rehabilitation at home in Italy which will prevent him from singing in what would have been his Lyric debut. Lucas Meacham has been in the title role for the month of November and his final performance, as planned, will be November 30.
On Sunday December 1st at 2 pm, Opera at Florham presents 'A Jingling Jamboree' in the beautiful and historic Lenfell Hall, located in the Mansion at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison. Celebrate the holidays with soprano Amelia Burshe, tenor Frederick Schlick, and nine talented stars of tomorrow from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Montclair State and Queens College. The artists perform arias, traditional carols, diverse religious melodies, and seasonal songs from Broadway and the American Songbook. Artistic Director Mary Pinto accompanies on piano and Mariana Karpatova narrates.
Visitors to the world-renowned Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 5-8, 2019) can take their love of culture a step further by visiting the Riverwalk A&E District in Fort Lauderdale. Located less than 30 miles north of Miami Beach, The District is offering many fun-filled holiday events, art exhibitions, tours and more during and surrounding Art Basel.
