Victor Herbert News

Sara Chase brought Madeline Kahn back to life at The Laurie Beechman with a new twist on the cabaret bio show. Her good script, beautiful soprano and top-notch support made for a very entertaining 75 minutes

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Executive Director Michael Shinn will present honorary doctorates to Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kelli O'Hara. Learn more!

 The Anchorage Symphony has announced an evening of music at their next Classic Concert - Legends in the Atwood Concert Hall. Learn more about the upcoming performance here!

Music Theater Works has announced that registration is open for the final YouthREACH production of its 2024 season, Babes in Toyland, with weekday rehearsals and performance at Music Theater Works' Joyce Saxon Rehearsal Hall in Wilmette.

Great Lakes Operetta has announced its inaugural fundraising event, featuring a centenary celebration of Victor Herbert's works, including THE MAGIC KNIGHT.

La Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) presenta su cuarto programa de la Segunda Temporada 2024, titulado Armonías sin fronteras, en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, bajo la dirección artística de Luis Manuel Sánchez, el jueves 10 de octubre a las 20:00 h.  

Chelsea Table + Stage is quickly becoming the most adventurous cabaret venue in New York. Last week Ann Kittredge celebrated the release of her new album ROMANTIC NOTIONS, a series of songs exploring the many aspects of love and romance, with a concert there. Kittredge is an engaging performer with a wonderful sense of style and elegance.

Artistic Director Mark Seto kicks off The Chelsea Symphony's 19th season with the world premiere of Aidan Gold's Swallowtail, a breathtaking work that draws inspiration from the majestic landscapes of the Pacific Northwest.

Cellist John-Henry Crawford has released a new album featuring works by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky, performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Martin West.

This time, the reader question was: With The Great Gatsby musicals happening now, are there other examples of musicals about the same subject?

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León will continue her Debs Composer’s Chair residency at Carnegie Hall this spring with two inventive programs in Zankel Hall, followed by two free Carnegie Hall Citywide concerts this summer to be announced soon.

Winter Opera continues it’s seventeenth season with another iconic operetta—Victor Herbert’s Naughty Marietta.  This lovely old show premiered in 1910. It was produced by the first Oscar Hammerstein (the grandfather of you-know-who).  In 1935 a movie version was made—with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

Nickel City Opera's 15th Season will bring a new American opera, The Falling and the Rising produced by the U.S. Army Field Band, Saturday, June 29th at 8:00pm and Sunday, June 30th at 4:00pm at Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts Center, 1250 Amherst Street Buffalo. On Friday, March 1st, A Night of Funny Stuff with Artistic Director, Valerian Ruminski and pianist Ivan Docenko accompanying in concert at The Meeting House, 5658 Main Street, Williamsville and the 15th Annual NCO Gala Dinner, Tuesday, June 25th at 6:00pm at Ilio DiPaolo’s 3785 South Park Avenue, Blasdell.

MasterVoices has announced details of the celebrated chorus’ 82nd season, celebrating the power of the human voice to unite, inspire and connect since 1941.

MasterVoices will conclude its 2022-23 season on May 3 at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium with a concert staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Iolanthe, directed and conducted by Ted Sperling.

A stellar cast brightens a Romberg favorite. Operetta, as a genre, arose in the 1850's and swelled into a widely beloved form of entertainment. In America its chief luminaries were Sigmund Romberg, Victor Herbert, and Rudolf Friml. From the 1920's to the '40's the modern musical gradually drove operettas from the stage (except for the happily undying works of Gilbert & Sullivan). And I miss them! So I greatly approve of Winter Opera's offering us this old piece.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will present a bold and daring evening of Dvořák Masterworks, featuring his love letter to America, Symphony No. 9 in E minor: “From the New World” as well as Cello Concerto in B minor, the greatest of all cello concertos, performed by Grammy Award-winning artist Zuill Bailey - who also appeared during the Symphony's inaugural concert 25 years ago.

MasterVoices continues its eclectic 2022-23 season on March 23 at Central Synagogue with Ted Sperling leading O How Good, a performance of Jewish sacred music. The program includes two beloved works of traditional Jewish liturgy set by master composers – Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service and Kurt Weill's Kiddush – as well as the world premiere of And the Sun Goes Up, a new work by Israeli-American composer Daniel Rein, commissioned by MasterVoices.  

“Siento que mi propósito es hacer que el mundo sea un poco mejor viviendo una vida saludable y sabiendo que el talento que me han dado está en esencia destinado a traer más luz al mundo”. Bajo esta mirada de la vida y de su arte, Hera Hyesang Park estará presente en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes el próximo sábado 15 de octubre, a las 12:00 horas, en un concierto organizado por la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal).  

Opera Orlando has announced four singers joining the company’s Studio Artist program in the Company’s 2022-23 Opera Everlasting season. The artists are Sara Lucille Law, soprano; Raphaella Medina, mezzo soprano; Robert Hartfield, tenor; and Geoffrey Peterson, lyric baritone.