Vaughan Williams News

Inland Pacific Ballet returns this spring with its spectacular landmark production of The Little Mermaid, the classic tale about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea for love.

What did our critic think of ARTS@FSW CONCERT at B. B. Mann? Florida SouthWestern State College Symphony Orchestra, String Ensemble, and College Choirs offered an inspiring evening of music on April 19, 2023. The program included carefully selected works spanning a wide variety of composers and styles.

The Fisher Center at Bard and its renowned annual Bard SummerScape festival both celebrate their 20th anniversaries this year. “A hotbed of intellectual and aesthetic adventure” (New York Times), SummerScape returns to New York's Hudson Valley this summer with seven weeks of live music, opera, music-theater, and more, in the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center and other venues on the idyllic Bard College campus (June 23–Aug 13).

On Saturday, April 29th at 7:30 pm, Modus Operandi Orchestra (MOO), under the baton of Maestro Justin Bischof (pictured above left), Eiko Kano, concertmaster, will celebrate the riches and majesty of works that either premiered in Vienna or that have a strong connection to this glittering European capital city.

Inland Pacific Ballet returns this spring with its spectacular landmark production of The Little Mermaid, the classic tale about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea for love.

Opera Orlando and honorary chairs Margie and Chuck Steinmetz present The Mozart Dinner on Saturday, April 22, 2023 at Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

“I shall gain me glory, or grim-death shall take me”, says the titular hero in the thousand-year-old epic poem. Last night, however, it was the turn of composer Iain Bell to seek a different kind of glory as his new adaptation of Beowulf (commissioned by the BBC) made its world première at Barbican Hall. Conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus was Martyn Brabbins, and they were joined by actor Ruth Wilson as narrator, and tenor Charles Styles (standing in for Stuart Skelton at short notice).

The Seattle Symphony's 2023/2024 season marks the orchestra's 120th season and the 25th anniversary of Benaroya Hall's opening. The season launches with recreations of the Symphony's and the Hall's first-ever concerts; featuring Seattle Symphony Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot and soprano Alexandra LoBianco.

The Fisher Center at Bard has announced its 20th Anniversary Season: Breaking Ground, a celebration of the artists, audiences, students, faculty, and communities that have written the Fisher Center’s story for its first two decades and will imagine it into the future.

The fully renovated State Theatre New Jersey presents Daniel Hope with Zurich Chamber Orchestra on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $17.50-$70.  

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance continues its 2022-2023 Masterworks Series with a concert featuring three composers' musical reactions to war and their hopes for peace in Perspectives: War and Peace.

Park Avenue Armory's 2023 season will mark the tenth year of its celebrated Recital Series, bringing chamber music programs by world-renowned artists to the restored Board of Officers Room.

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Symphony San José and Symphony San José Chorale present 'Serenade to Music'. The performance is on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 7pm, at Mission Santa Clara. Located on the campus of Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053

​​​​​​​Coro Allegro, Boston's award-winning LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus, kicks off its centennial celebration of Daniel Pinkham on March 12 with performances of the late local composer's fanfares and works for double choir, brass quartet, and organ. The celebration culminates with a performance of  Pinkham's “The White Raven,” a Coro Allegro commission, on May 7. 

MidAmerica Productions has announced programming for its 2023 season at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, marking the 40th anniversary for the company and one of the longest tenures (over 1,000 concerts as a presenter) at Carnegie Hall.

Buckingham Palace has confirmed that Andrew Lloyd Webber has been chosen to compose King Charles III's Coronation Anthem.

A series of controversial lectures on 'female hysteria' given in Paris in the 1880s by the leading French neurologist of his day will be creatively re-enacted in music by French-British soprano and composer Héloïse Werner on Wednesday 8 March, when she performs the world première of her new work Les Leçons du Mardi (Tuesday Lectures) with the Tippett String Quartet, at London's Wigmore Hall.

This Spring, Ragazzi Boys Chorus will lift their voices in the concert Cantate Domino. Ragazzi Boys Chorus' Concert Group, Choral Scholars, and Young Men's Ensemble are joined by Ragazzi Continuo, a men's chorus comprised of Ragazzi alumni, to perform this program of stunning song.

The New York Choral Society, New York's pioneering symphonic chorus that explores unique collaboration and dynamic repertory, celebrates an epic season of large scale choral and multi-disciplinary collaborations with their annual gala, March 30, 2023, at the Metropolitan Club on Manhattan's Upper East Side.