A classical season of intriguing variety springs forth
New music by Julia Wolfe and performances of Haydn’s “Creation” and Ethel Smyth’s seldom-heard “Mass in D” are among the ...
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He’s the first Black American to compose a full opera. It’s finally being staged after 138 years
“And the reality is that in the United States – in the person of Dédé – Black people were (already) participating in classical music.” Dédé grew up in a New Orleans that resonated with the bel cantos ...
Why Is an Entire Age of American Opera Missing at the Met?
A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...
Derbyshire Times on MSN16h
Classical music with an hilarious twist at The MozART Group concert in Derbyshire
Classical music played with a humorous twist will be hysterical if you don’t know your Mozart from you Bach, but exquisitely ...
Seattle Opera to present a ‘Magic Flute’ that’s a bold spectacle
Seattle Opera will present a "Magic Flute" that mixes live performance with projected animations, turning singers into living parts of a cinematic spectacle.
The New York Times23d
On Site Opera Shuts Down, Citing Financial Woes
Javier C. Hernández reports on classical music, opera and dance in New York City and beyond. More about Javier C. Hernández ...
LA Times on MSN7d
L.A.’s classical KUSC will merge programming with San Francisco sister station
KUSC and the Bay Area's KDFC will combine their radio programming and on-air staffs. Cost cutting is not to blame, leadership ...
Classic FM22d
19 iconic pop songs you didn’t know were directly inspired by classical music
Music history’s most iconic bass guitar riff is inspired by seven notes from the first movement of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony. Lead singer Jack White had classical training ... Mio Elvis takes on the ...
The Vancouver Sun28d
Classical music: Bringing Jonathan Dove's bright, vibrant Flight to Vancouver Opera
It is the responsibility of any serious opera company to produce or commission ... a Gogol-derived production mimed to the music of Shostakovich. Flight is a full-length proposition in three ...