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Music of the Baroque Is Back With Messiah, Mozart, Haydn for 2021-22

Music of the Baroque today announced its plans for a 2021-22 season, the venerable Chicago area ensemble’s 51st.

Stephen Raskauskas | March 23, 2017

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar on Sexism, Collaboration, Her Return “Home” to the United States

Stephen Raskauskas | March 22, 2017

Watch ‘Invitation to a Die-In,’ A Moving Musical Memorial to Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police

Sarah Zwinklis | March 21, 2017

This Classical Music-Inspired Cocktail Is A “Ravelation”

Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs

Associated Press | June 4, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — “When I am laid in earth,” the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than when the hour-long opera, composed in the 1680s, is performed this week in the catacombs of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. The ...

Daniel Barenboim in a grey hat, stands in front of a stone wall

Barenboim’s tenure at Berlin’s Staatsoper extended to 2027

Associated Press | June 4, 2019

Conductor Daniel Barenboim is getting a five-year contract extension as general music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper, which would keep him at the opera house until 2027.

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