Music
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Deutsche Oper Presents Turnage
Greek Outdoors in KoolAide Colors
By: - Sep 06th, 2022Mark Anthony Turnage was very young when composer Hans Werner Henze asked him to create an opera for the first Munich Biennale Summer Festival. Turnage, already attracting attention for his musical language which draws on Miles Davis, Janácek and Stravinsky, had caught Henze’s ear. Henze’s own work ranges in reference from serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition.
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Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY.
2022 Fall Season
By: - Sep 07th, 2022Co-Directors Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi are proud to announce the 2022 fall season at the Ancram Opera House in Ancram, NY. “We are excited to welcome audiences back to the Opera House for our fall season which includes a highly anticipated revival of Emily Mann’s Obie Award-winning documentary play, Still Life,” says Paul Ricciardi; with Jeffrey Mousseau adding, “the project extends an examination of war and its impact on all of us which we initiated last season with our acclaimed production of An Iliad.”
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Free Concert at the Clark
Sunday September 11 at 4PM
By: - Sep 08th, 2022Sunday, September 11, the Clark Art Institute continues its Locals at the Lunder Center series with a free concert by two-guitar duo Elkhorn, followed by local musical group Sound For. Presented in partnership with Belltower Records (North Adams, Massachusetts), the performance kicks off an upcoming series of live music events that feature new experimentations in sound, in conjunction with the changing of the seasons. The concert takes place at 4:15 pm on the Lunder Center’s Moltz Terrace. In the event of inclement weather, the event moves to the Clark’s auditorium.
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Presented by BroadwaySF
By: - Sep 12th, 2022The appeal of the show draws on the naughty titillation of the fin de siècle cabarets that emerged in the steamy Montmartre district of Paris, where the working set, bohemians, and the demi-monde (the upper class who go slumming), sat side-by-side. The Moulin Rouge marked the spiritual epicenter, where the can-can was originated and danced by courtesans.
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Daisy Press Sings Hildegard Von Bingen
Angel's Share and Green-Wood Present
By: - Sep 12th, 2022Death of Classical keeps classical music alive in unusual and inviting locations and attracts the curious who often are unfamiliar with this form of music. Collaborating with the Green-Wood Cemetery in the Angel’s Share series, the audience walked through the beautiful Brooklyn graveyard to its Catacombs for a mesmerizing presentation of songs by a twelfth century composer, herbalist and politician, Hildegard Von Bingen.
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The Marriage of Figaro
produced by Opera San Jose
By: - Sep 13th, 2022Perhaps more than any other, “Marriage” is considered to be the finest comic opera ever written, if not the finest opera altogether.
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Close Encounters Announces a New Season
Treasures in the Berkshires
By: - Sep 14th, 2022Close encounters with music is an innovative and captivating presenter of music. Sublime chamber music concerts are enhanced by entertaining, erudite, and lively commentary by artistic director Yehuda Hanani. Programs include international soloists, and intriguing themes.
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Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 17th, 2022The opera is set in the 1930s, offering shades of the Hollywood glamor and fascist depravity of that time. This conceit does allow for the visual appeal of period newsreels projections and a more varied look in Constance Hoffman’s appealing and fashionable costumery, but the conceptual rationale for the time shift is unclear.
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BSO Launches Season
Andris Nelsons Leads the Orchestra
By: - Sep 22nd, 2022Andris Nelsons, marking his ninth season as BSO Music Director, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the opening concert of the 2022–23 season on September 22 at Symphony Hall. Pianist Awadagin Pratt appears for the first time with the BSO, performing a work written for him by American composer Jessie Montgomery (Rounds, for piano and string orchestra) and J.S. Bach's Concerto in A, BWV 1055.
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Sunset Boulevard
Music Theatre of Connecticut
By: - Sep 26th, 2022Have you forgotten this show? It is based on the classic 1950 film noir of the same name which tells the story of an aging silent screen actress deluded that she will make a comeback and the struggling screenwriter she hires to help her with a script. Add in music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and you had a smash hit in both London and New York.
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Opera Philadelphia Festival Returns
Rossini's Otello Features Lawrence Brownlee
By: - Sep 27th, 2022Opera Philadelphia brings Gioachino Rossini's Otello to the stage. Beethoven told Rossini that he should stay away from serious drama. It was not in his nature. That is not the only reason Rossini’s serious opera Otello has been largely ignored. When Verdi and Bioto wrote their Otello, it replaced Rossini’s in the repertoire. Now we can hear the glorious bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee and also Daniela Mack dazzle and emote as Rodrigo and Desdemona.
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Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022But, oh, that music. Those haunting melodies and the euphonic lilt of the language produce a signature Russian experience. It should be no surprise that this is currently the world’s most produced Slavic opera, given its many attractions. Happily, it remains in the repertory of San Francisco Opera, which offers a striking and highly enjoyable rendition.
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Britten's the Prodigal Son
Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Boston- and U.K.-based Enigma Chamber Opera continues its exploration of chamber works by Benjamin Britten with two performances of the English composer’s biblically inspired 1968 opera “The Prodigal Son.” The work is the third of Britten's three Parables for Church Performance; Enigma mounted the first, “Curlew River,” to critical acclaim last fall. This new production is directed by Artistic Director Kirsten Z. Cairns, who finds in the universal story of parent/child reconciliation and forgiveness a balm for an often bitterly divided society.
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Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven
Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Opera Philadelphia and the Obvious Agency present a choreographed Raven, based on Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue. The audience is transported by the fantastic music and dance.
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Grace Kelly and U Conn Jazz Ensemble
Stationery Factory in Dalton, Mass
By: - Oct 01st, 2022All signs point to a full house for Grace Kelly’s evening of big band music. The young lion of jazz headlines with the University of Connecticut Jazz Ensemble on Sunday evening, Oct. 9.
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The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti
Produced by Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Although Donizetti concocted this superficially light-hearted confection, “Elixir” is a serious delight from curtain to curtain, both as an entertainment and as a great work of composition. As we have come to expect, Livermore Valley Opera once again punches above its weight with a totally appealing production that hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively.
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Intolleranza at Komische Oper, Berlin
Intolleranza 1960, by Luigi Nono
By: - Oct 14th, 2022What an opera experience at the Komische Oper! Luigi Nono's "Intolleranza 1960" as the first opening of the 2022/23 season.
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Jennifer Koh and Davone Tines at BAM
Outsider Voices in an Alien Culture
By: - Oct 14th, 2022Across a crowded room at the Paris Opera, Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines looked at each other and realized they had something in common, something that was different from everyone else in the room: their color. They have joined forces to bring ther unique stories to a culture they find alien. Everything Rises is presented as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Death of Classical Presents Nico Muhly's The Street
Live Artists Parker Ramsey, Monica Wyche and Hannah Spierman
By: - Oct 16th, 2022The Street is a triptych of tones and textures created by composer Nico Muhly and writer Alice Goodman. Goodman points out that this is not a libretto. It is a meditation on Christ’s walk up the stations of the cross in Jerusalem on the day he would be crucified by his fellow Jews. Its take is a street scene, and on the streets where we live.
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TON Orchestra at the Rose Theater
JoAnn Falleta Conducts
By: - Oct 19th, 2022TON orchestra arrived at the Rose Theater under the baton of JoAnn Falleta. She is a conductor one wishes would spend more time in New York. Music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, she conducted at Tanglewood last summer. She brings thrilling musicality to her program choices.
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Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites
San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 20th, 2022“Dialogues” is based on the true story of 16 Carmelite nuns of Compiègne who were guillotined in 1794 during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror because of their unwillingness to compromise their faith. Historically, the nuns’ singing as they ascended the gallows quieted the bloodthirsty crowd that gathered at these beheadings. In less than two weeks, Robespierre’s degenerate reign ended with his execution at the guillotine.
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Joshua Bell and Larisa Martinez at the 92nd Street Y
New York Hosts the Violinist and Singer Duo
By: - Oct 21st, 2022Joshua Bell and his wife, the soprano Larisa Martinez, performed together at the 92nd Street Y in New York. Paul Dugan accompanied on the piano with his own special touch
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42nd Street at Goodspeed
A Timeless Musical
By: - Oct 22nd, 2022The projections and the equipment used – which I’m told were very expensive – by Shawn Duan really helped to create the setting and the locations without taking up room on the stage. I wanted to “ooh” and “aah” at them
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We, the Innumerable at National Sawdust
Nilofar Nourbakash Captures Iranian Protests
By: - Oct 25th, 2022We The Innumerable is an opera created by the Iranian/American composer Niloufar Nourbakash with libretto by Australian aborigine Lisa Flanigan. Sara Jobin, who is committed to works which bring about peace and global understanding, conducted. National Sawdust staged. The opera tells the story of a woman who protects the truth at all costs It is set during protests in Iran after a contested election in 2009. It echoes in today’s protests.
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Anthony Davis X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
Record Released
By: - Oct 25th, 2022Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound announced the world premiere recording of the revised version of Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
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