Celebrating more than 90 years of advancing innovation, access, and excellence in music education, the Music Institute of Chicago will host its annual Gala Benefit on Thursday, June 2 at 6 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago, 120 E. Delaware Place.
The Center for Fiction and Theatre Communications Group will co-present Sarah Ruhl and Matthew Aucoin in Conversation on March 16 at 7pm ET at The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, and via livestream.
Members of the Flora L. Thornton Opera Program will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University on Thursday, February 24 and Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts.
Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, Acting Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the last decade, will make her Chamber Music Society of Detroit debut with a recital on Friday, March 4, 2022, 8 PM, at Schaver Music Recital Hall.
The tenor's recent seasons have included Don José in Carmen with San Francisco Opera, Calaf in Turandot at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana, opposite Agnes Baltsa in Thessaloniki, Greece, Orin Mannon in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Mourning Becomes Electra.
It was just announced that American baritone Lucas Meachem will step in to perform Athanaël in a new Olivier Py production of Jules Massenet's Thaïs at Teatro alla Scala, marking his house debut.
Bronx Arts Ensemble has announced Reflections, a free concert event on February 5, 2022, at 3 pm at Bronx House Community Center, 990 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY.
The New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas have announced I Dream a World: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a multi-disciplinary, multi-tiered festival that celebrates the history and influence of this cultural movement.
Palm Beach Symphony returns to CBS 12 News and CW34 for the second consecutive year with a brand new holiday-themed Sounds of the Season this December with airings that include Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve broadcasts. Music Director Gerard Schwarz, who recently received the eighth and ninth Emmy Awards of his distinguished career, conducts.
Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi and General Director Richard Russell have announced casting for the 2022 Winter Opera Festival, which also marks Maestro DeRenzi's 40th anniversary with the company.
Following years of releasing elaborate music videos of holiday carols on his popular YouTube channel, Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem releases All I Want, an EP of five classic Christmas ballads on December 10 with Crossover Records. Carols include All I Want for Christmas, This Christmas, Adeste Fideles 'O Come, All Ye Faithful,' and Carol of the Bells, each arranged for a cappella voices by Meachem and featuring him singing all of the multi-layered parts.
The New York Philharmonic today released a new film featuring conductor and composer Daniela Candillari leading the orchestra's brass section in her own composition, Sonnet IX, as well as a program of Mussorgsky, Dorothy Gates, Michael Kamen, Bruckner, and Paul Terracini.
Violeta Angelova, former principal dancer of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and Matthew Prescott, a former member of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and who has danced with the Joffrey Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, will appear as guest artists in the Ballet Arts of Jackson’s production of The Nutcracker on December 10, 11, and 12, 2021 at the Carl Perkins Civic Center in Jackson, Tennessee.
David Newkirk, Chair of Charlottesville Opera's Board of Directors and Christina DeMarea, General Director, announced that Caroline Worra has been named Artistic Director of the nonprofit company, effective immediately.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced the cast and creative team for Tony Award-nominated August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, directed by Tazewell Thompson (Arena’s Jubilee).
The week's Utah Symphony program may not be for the faint of heart, but deeply felt emotion is guaranteed.
Call it Loretta Young meets Carol Burnett, with a little Whoopi Goldberg thrown in, LATE NITE CATEHCISM is part catechism class, part stand-up comedy routine. Written by Vicki Quade & Maripat Donovan, it's an interactive comedy, one of the longest running shows in Chicago and U.S. theater history.
The recital spotlights the works of Black composers and writers, in addition to works from the traditional classical music canon including three Strauss pieces, Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten, Traum durch die Dämmerung, and Zueignung; the song cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Ravel.
Mid afternoon, our tour group meets on the Magic Opera Flying Carpet at Los Angeles Airport (LAX). We watch LA Opera’s digital short entitled Gallup, or Na'nízhoozhí in Navajo. The scene incorporates the high desert New Mexico landscape and the city famed for Navajo jewelry. Tour members should wear the biggest and best turquoise they have for the show!
Laura Osnes has been facing backlash on social media following a story published by the New York Post's Page Six last week. The story alleged that Osnes was fired from a one-night production of Crazy For You at the Guild Hall in East Hampton because she refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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