Terence Blanchard News

The Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival will return to Lincoln Center Plaza this August. See full programming and learn how to attend!

It's official! six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall, taking on what is widely regarded as the greatest role in musical theatre, “Rose” in GYPSY. We have all of the details!

Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed cast updates for Debussy's PELLÉAS & MÉLISANDE, featuring new performers in key roles. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, with a libretto by Greg Pierce is back at The Met for eight performances following its sold-out world-premiere production last season. In all new footage from the production's 2022 run, watch highlights of the cast in action featuring Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato and more.

Are you trying to plan your entertainment for the week or looking for a fun show to see this weekend? We have you covered with a few top picks for jazz, cabaret, comedy, and more! NYC has so many incredible events, but here are a few top picks to consider this week including Linda Eder, Betty Buckley and Sally Mayes.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, with a libretto by Greg Pierce, will return to the Met stage for eight performances. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Spivey Hall has announced its 2024/25 season with an inspiring collection of concerts.  Learn more about the lineup here!

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer-conductor John Adams will return to the Met for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio El Niño, opening on April 23.

All new rehearsal clips have been released from Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera. In both clips, Ryan Speedo Green sings an excerpt from Charles’s Act II aria in the production's final dress rehearsal. Check out the videos here!

Carnegie Hall has revealed the summer concert schedule for Carnegie Hall Citywide, the Hall’s free concert series that brings a diverse lineup of live performances to neighborhoods throughout New York City. See the performers!

It was tough separating the opera from the event when FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES opened the first post-Covid pandemic season at the Met. Back then, in September 2021, FIRE made history as the first opera by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard with his librettist Kasi Lemmons (based on the book by Charles M. Blow), to make its way to the Met stage. This week, it returned to show that contemporary opera can have “legs” on the big stage of the company.

Experience the magic of Puccini's TOSCA, presented by the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.

Get a first look at Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones' return to the Met stage. The production's remount begins performances on April 8 for seven performances. Its 2021 premiere made history as the first opera by a Black composer to be presented at the Met and won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.

Following its landmark company premiere during the 2021–22 season, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones will return to the Met stage.

Celebrate jazz at SMOKE Jazz Club in NYC this May with album release concerts by Charles McPherson and Jane Monheit, and more! See the full lineup and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Kennedy Center’s season-long celebration of Ellington 125 culminates this month, leading up to what would have been the American icon and Washington, D.C. native’s 125th birthday on April 29. See programming!

Join the 92nd Street Y for COTTON: Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano and Justin Austin, baritone. See when you can catch the performance and learn how to purchase tickets.

Watch as the dancers of this season’s revival of Terence Blanchard’s hit opera rehearse the Act III step dance with co-director and choreographer Camille A. Brown.

Soprano Rebecca L. Hargrove will be starring as Angelina (The Plaintiff) in the upcoming production of Trial By Jury, a rarely produced Gilbert & Sullivan show, on April 6th and 7th at the Kaye Playhouse in Manhattan. We spoke about her role in the upcoming show, her experiences with NYGASP so far, and what’s coming up next for her.

Discover the ten talented singers who have advanced to the final round of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.