Music
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Berlin Philharmonikker at Carnegie Hall
Painting Italy in Sound
By: - Oct 09th, 2026The Berlin Philharmoniker painted soundscapes in Carnegie Hall to open their season. Collaborating with their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, Rome and Italy came alive in New York. Tenor extraordinaire Jonas Kaufmann joined in to offer a grounded view of the struggles and passions of every person.
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein BSO Artist in Residence
Schedule of Performances
By: - Oct 06th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces the addition of recital dates in November and April by 2026–27 Artist in Residence Alisa Weilerstein. The acclaimed cellist, who performs Prokofiev as soloist with the BSO and guest conductor Paavo Järvi on February 4-6, adds fall and spring recitals to her residency.
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Parlando Presents The City Without Jews
Ian Niederhoffer Conducts Olga Neuwirth
By: - Oct 06th, 2026Ian Niederhoffer founded Parlando a little over five years ago, and his programming has been both adventuresome and unusual. His presentation of the film The City Without Jews, produced in 1924 and then lost, was an important step in restoring our picture of the culture of Central Europe in the crucial period between the First and Second World Wars.
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Suor Angelica
Puccini's Tragedy in the Covent
By: - Oct 05th, 2026The intense 60-minute opera tells of a young woman consigned to the convent as punishment for having a child out of wedlock. Having already subjugated earthly desires to serving God, she is asked to make one final sacrifice.
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Mannes Produces Suor Angelica
Puccini in a Cathoic Church
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Mannes School of Music filled the nave of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Arguably the best music school in New York, Mannes produces wonderful operas and concerts week after week. They are offered free and they're always a treat.
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Snow Goose Lays an Egg
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 01st, 2026I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.
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Sophie B. Hawkins at Joe's Pub
Previews upcoming musical Birds of New York
By: - Sep 28th, 2026Featuring book, music, and lyrics written by Sophie B. Hawkins, BIRDS OF NEW YORK brings to life the heartfelt story of an estranged daughter who returns home to New York City with her seven-year-old son to reconnect with her dying father.
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Lincoln in the Bardo Preview
Death of ClassicL and Greenwood Cemetery Magical Partners
By: - Sep 27th, 2026Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thea Musgrave's Tragic Opera
By: - Sep 26th, 2026At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.
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What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow
Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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Don Giovanni
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of Mozart Classic
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season
Launches with William Tell
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.
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The Village Trip in New York
Annual Downtown Festival
By: - Sep 07th, 2026September 25-October 4: The Village Trip celebrates culture and history in NYC’s iconic Greenwich Village. The 2026 edition of this annual festival includes nearly a dozen concerts performed by established classical and contemporary musicians and rising stars.
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Smoke Jazz Club
Vincent Herring Starts the Fall Program
By: - Sep 04th, 2026Smoke, the iconic jazz club on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has everything. First and foremost, the music is wonderful. Set in a smallish room with plush red velvet curtains bracketing the stage and three tiny chandeliers dotting the ceiling, the room is warm and comfortable. The acoustics are great.
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Key Chorale Launches New Season
Twentieth Under Joseph Caulkins
By: - Sep 04th, 2026When he was first hired as artistic director of Key Chorale in 2007, Joseph Caulkins figured he would lead the chorus of more than 100 voices for five or six years and then move on to the next job opportunity. It was such a different organization back then that he never expected to be preparing for his 20th season.
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Music at Clark Art Institute
Fall Programming
By: - Sep 04th, 2026This autumn, the Clark Art Institute presents an exciting lineup of performing arts events spanning multiple genres. There's something to delight every music fan!
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Batboy the Musical
Sarasota Players
By: - Aug 29th, 2026“Bat Boy: The Musical” is one of the most unusual and bizarre shows you’re likely to come across. That shouldn’t be surprising considering it was inspired in part by a 1992 story in the mostly fictional Weekly World News tabloid newspaper, about the discovery of a boy who was half human and half bat.
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Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Invincible
The Met Opera and Associates Host in David Geffen Hall
By: - Aug 28th, 2026The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra stopped off at David Geffen Hall in New York as part of their Invincible Tour. The first program was bracketed by two urgent works—notably a new suite by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets.
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Lili Elbe
Winning Opera of Early Transsexual Surgery
By: - Aug 16th, 2026Santa Fe Opera offers an imposing American premiere of Tobias Picker's powerful statement about an oppressed group through the biography of Lili Elbe, who underwent sex reassignment surgery a century ago.
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The Magic Flute
Santa Fe Opera's Visual and Vocal Kaleidoscope
By: - Aug 15th, 2026Mozart's popular fable-like singspiel is given a scintillating, near comic-like treatment. The hero wins the girl and passes the tests of the brotherhood
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Orpheus Descending
Flawed but Worthy Play with Strong Treatment
By: - Aug 11th, 2026Oakland Theater Project takes on Tennessee Williams' Southern Gothic tale and adds another dimension by making Val, the Orpheus figure, black. Drifting into a Southern town and becoming intimate with a white woman in the early 1950s is not likely to have a positive outcome.
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American Apollo
Another Hit for West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 09th, 2026In truth, a young black man, Thomas McKeller, modeled for famed portrait artist John Singer Sargent for several years. In truth, did they have an affair? An entertaining contemporary opera explores the fantasy.
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Carmen in Salzburg
Asmik Grigorian Shines in Her Role Debut
By: - Aug 09th, 2026Carmen arrived in a new production at Salzburg this summer, featuring Asmik Grigorian in her role debut as the title character. Everything we have come to expect from this glorious singer. is alive on stage at the Grosses Festspielhaus.. Her acting fully matches her vocal prowess. S
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Rinaldo
Holy Crusader as Modern Comic Superhero
By: - Aug 04th, 2026West Edge Opera has adapted the storyline of Handel's Baroque opera into a tale of a superhero who joins forces with the police to fight organized crime. It works.
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The Turn of the Screw
Britten's Sinister Opera Based on Henry James's Novella
By: - Aug 03rd, 2026Without the presence of parents, an untried governess is hired to care for two children on an English country estate. She becomes ensnared by the ghosts of the deceased and the deceptions of the children in her charge.
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