Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera’s new stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and ‘Tristan und Isolde’
The Met also said Tuesday that Nézet-Séguin's contract had been extended by six years through 2029-30.
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Playlist: 10 Shakespeare-Inspired Operas You Should Know
If “Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm,” perhaps these 10 Shakespeare-inspired operas will charm you.
“Difficult, But Worth It”: Singers Share Their Secrets to Memorizing Opera Scores by Philip Glass
Anyone who’s ever tried to sing or play an instrument knows that hard work and practice are essential to make a performance successful. But performing music from memory presents another challenge. The repetitions Glass uses make memorizing his music particularly difficult.
Soprano Nadine Sierra wins 2017 Richard Tucker Award
Soprano Nadine Sierra has won the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, dubbed the Heisman Trophy of opera.
Hearing George Shirley, the Met’s First Black Tenor, Sing Mozart Will Melt Your Heart
In 2015, former President Barack Obama awarded Shirley with the National Medal of Arts.
Make Music Day festival is coming to dozens of US cities
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 U.S. cities will be hosting Make Music Day, a free one-day outdoor festival celebrating music and music-making. The annual event is June 21, the summer solstice. Highlights of Make Music Day in the U.S. will include Sousapaloozas in Chicago; Cleveland; Madison, Wisconsin; Minneapolis-St. Paul; New York; and San Jose, California. Part of Make ...
This Split Screen Performance of Bach’s St. John Passion is the Most Metal Thing You’ll Hear All Day
What’s more metal than Bach’s driving bass line, chromatic suspensions, and florid inner voices?
Video: Pianist Vassily Primakov Plays Chopin and Rachmaninoff
The Pregnant Buffalo Lounge, a subterranean space at the Chopin Theatre was home to the second WFMT Cabaret.
James Levine Named Ravinia Conductor Laureate
James Levine, recently retired music director of the Metropolitan Opera, has been named conductor laureate of the Ravinia Festival.
2017 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts
The 2017 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: JOURNALISM Public Service New York Daily News and ProPublica for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities. Also nominated as finalists: The Chicago Tribune for reporting on prescription drug dispensing; and the Houston ...
Winners of London’s 2017 Olivier stage awards
LONDON (AP) — The winners of the 2017 Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in London theater, opera and dance: New Play: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” New Musical: “Groundhog Day” New Comedy: “Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour” Entertainment and Family Show: “The Red Shoes” Revival: “Yerma” Musical Revival: “Jesus Christ Superstar” Actress-Play: Billie Piper, “Yerma” Actor-Play: Jamie Parker, “Harry Potter ...
