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On the Los Angeles Opera website, Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex is available to stream now thru July 18th. Stravinsky based his opera Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Oedipus Rex, is staged with minimal movement, which works well with COVID restrictions. A narrator describes the action in English.

To accompany the song’s release, the first in a series of special, cinematic films entitled ‘Sublime Boulevards - Performance Films’ launches today on YouTube.

Erin Fowler's FEMME is astonishingly good.

THE ROAD THEATRE COMPANY and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, Artistic Director, are now presenting the second show of their 2021 virtual season, REYKJAVÍK, written by Steve Yockey and directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

San Francisco Ballet has announced Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson’s farewell season in 2022, celebrating Tomasson’s remarkable 37-year tenure leading the Company.

The Road Theatre Company and Taylor Gilbert, Founder/Artistic Director together with Sam Anderson, will present the second show of their 2021 virtual season, REYKJAVÍK, written by Steve Yockey (Golden Globe-Nominee and Executive Producer of “The Flight Attendant”) and directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra throws open its virtual doors to the entire community, inviting the public to stream at no cost its digital 2021 gala, “Meet the Moment,” which celebrates the Orchestra's virtuosic musicians, on Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 6 pm (PT).

The release is preceded by today’s premiere of the album’s first song, “Radio Silence,” which David Fricke called in his album notes “an overture of slowly dawning arpeggios that dot the void like hopeful transmissions.”

Source Material will present the World Premiere of Low Skies Divine, an abstract sound-based performance piece inspired by William Shakespeare’s King Lear, created by director Samantha Shay and composer Áslaug Magnúsdóttir.

Laufey—twenty-one year old Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter, musician, cellist and pianist—recently announced her forthcoming debut EP, Typical of Me, and shared a new track entitled “Best Friend,” which has already received support from the likes of Billboard and NPR Music.

Choreographer/performer Maureen Fleming will present the premiere of EARTH GODDESSES, a digital streaming program that pairs two of Fleming's critically acclaimed recent pieces, 'Axis Mundi' and 'Effulgent Wings'. EARTH GODDESSES is available to stream December 28, 2020 - January 28, 2021.

The Iceland-based Danish musician, ZAAR (the solo project of Sara Flindt) will premiere the music video for Homesick on Sunday, December 20 at 10am EST on YouTube.

Faroese electronica artist Eivør has shared a video for “Only Love” featuring vocals from Ásgeir. The track is featured on Eivør’s new album Segl released earlier this fall on BFD/The Orchard/Kobalt. 

Sono Luminus has announced the January 22, 2021 worldwide release of Occurrence, a new recording from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO). Conducted by the ISO’s Principal Guest Conductor Daníel Bjarnason and recorded at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland in February '18, December '19 & March '20, Occurrence features music by leading Icelandic composers.

Los Angeles Opera presents The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. James Conlon will conduct the orchestra. LAO will stream the performance online on Saturday, November 14, 2020, at 5:00 PM. Tickets are free at: https://bit.ly/3eiBtSF

Pittsburgh Festival Opera has announced a Wicked Wagner Weekend in response to the continued COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings throughout the state of Pennsylvania.

Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA) and WAPAVA President Jackson R. Bryer have announced that Rick Hammerly has joined the organization as its new Executive Director as of October 1, 2020. Hammerly, a 2-time Helen Hayes Award-winning actor/director, is also the Producing Artistic Director of Factory 449.

Electro-folk-pop artist Eivør has announced a digital livestream release concert to celebrate her new album Segl, October 9 via the Nordic House in Torshavn, the capital of her native Faroe Islands.

After celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2019 with the release of the 25LIVE@25 album, British rock icons Skunk Anansie have announced a string of rescheduled European tour dates, with new shows added due to phenomenal demand including a brand new date at London’s iconic O2 Academy Brixton.

GCG Theatricals, a startup musical theatre production company in Orange County, CA, released today the trailer for its upcoming socially distanced production of 'Chess The Musical', to air September 25th at 7 PM PDT.

The Broad Stage and esteemed LA-based publisher Red Hen Press continues season two of the Red Hen Press Poetry Hour with an online episode on Thursday, September 24 at 6pm PT in which host Sandra Tsing Loh leads a program with five unique artists about the intersections between feminism, performance, identity and poetry in the time following the #MeToo Movement.

THE LUDLOW FRINGE FESTIVAL Presents The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within in association with Richard Skipper Celebrates.

Faroese electro-folk-pop artist Eivør has released a new single and video 'Let It Come' today.

Source Material's IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES will world premiere via Zoom July 25, 2020 at 4pm PST. Directed by Source Material's artistic director Samantha Shay, IN THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES posits the state of theatre in these COVID-19 times using a mash-up of Chekov monologues, drinking duels and coronavirus memes. Performers, spread out in the U. S. and in Iceland, include company members James Cowan, Miles Hartfelder, Annelise Lawson, Stephanie Regina, Raven Scott, Victoria Sendra, and Grace Tiso. I had the chance to ask Samantha what's currently predominating in her creative mind.

Icelandic cellist, singer, and composer Gyda Valtysdottir, a founder of the band múm and 2019 winner of the prestigious Nordic Council Music Prize, releases Epicycle II on her label DiaMond in collaboration with Sono Luminus on August 28, 2020. The second single, 'Liquidity' by Kjartan Sveinsson is out today and follows 'Evol Laminia' by Jónsi and Gyda.