BARTLEBY begins with a tease. The curtain only rises a little, just enough to show feet. Expressive. Unexpected and intriguing from the first second. When it finally lifts, Vincent Lemaire’s set reveals itself in clean, minimal lines, white bricks, a black table, black chairs, and a bust. It’s atemporal, and still you feel the lawyer’s office in your bones.
The Calgary Philharmonic announced its 2026/2027 season, with full program details available for the upcoming year of performances at Calgary's Arts Commons.
Alec Baldwin will narrate the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The award-winning actor and classical music enthusiast joins a special Independence Day weekend program.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform Philip Glass' new Symphony No. 15, Lincoln on Sunday, July 5 at 2:30 p.m. at Tanglewood, capping off the summer music festival's monumental four-day celebration of America's 250th anniversary.
The composer withdraws the planned world premiere of Symphony No. 15, citing concerns about the institution’s current direction.
The Calgary Philharmonic has announced that Grammy-award winning conductor Karen Kamensek has joined the Calgary Phil this season in the newly-created role of Principal Guest Conductor.
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra will open its 2025–26 season on September 5 with a six-concert September lineup that showcases the breadth of its 70th anniversary programming.
The Grange Festival has announced the full cast for Queen at the Opera (5, 8, 19 June) and Bernstein on Broadway (26, 29 June), bringing together some of the greatest performers from Opera and the West End.
The Calgary Philharmonic revealed its 2025/2026 Season, featuring a stellar array of concerts running the gamut from classical to country, EDM to Baroque, don’t-miss dance parties, and moe.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will present the fourth annual Summer for the City. The 2025 festival will include world and New York premieres, participatory events, and more.
For its first season under the leadership of new Chief Executive Tyler Stoops, The Grange Festival has announced the programme for summer 2025.
Get a first look at San Francisco Opera's West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Check out the video!
San Francisco Opera will present the West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood.
Watch a teaser trailer for San Francisco Opera's The Handmaid's Tale, running September 14-October 1, 2024, in the video here.
Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2024-25 season, featuring a spectacular, new, season-opening production of Il trovatore; the return of charming, family-friendly Cinderella, classic tragedy La bohème, and blockbuster musical West Side Story; Houstonians’ first-ever chance to see award-winning opera Breaking the Waves; and a lushly beautiful new production of Tannhäuser.
Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2024-25 season, which includes a concert presentation of the Broadway masterpiece, West Side Story, led by Broadway's Shereen Pimentel and tenor Brenton Ryan.
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has unveiled its 2024/25 season at the Winspear Centre. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.
The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.
The 2024–25 Season includes six mainstage opera productions along with concert presentations including a one-night-only performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on October 26, honoring the work's 200th anniversary and, in the summer of 2025, a special Pride Concert celebrating San Francisco's LGBTQIA+ community.
Even with its scenes of torture, sexual extortion, execution and suicide, this thirteenth revival of Jonathan Kent’s take on Tosca digs deep into the romantic story at its heart.
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