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Grant Park Music Festival Announces Full 2022 Season

The season begins on June 15 with artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar leading music of Mozart, Wagner, and Price.

Michael San GabinoOctober 13, 2017

Meet Stilian Kirov, the New Music Director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Louise FrankOctober 12, 2017

Musicians Share Why Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Is the Gig That Gives Them “All Any of Us Really Want”

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 12, 2017

Is Verdi’s Last Opera, ‘Falstaff,’ Also His Best?

Met Opera to hold celebration of Jessye Norman on Nov. 24

Associated PressNovember 6, 2019

Latonia Moore, Eric Owens, Lise Davidsen, J'Nai Bridges, and Leah Hawkins are scheduled to perform, the company said Wednesday, along with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Christians want Belgian opera’s naked Joan of Arc banned

Associated PressOctober 30, 2019

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Christian association is trying to prevent Brussels opera house La Monnaie from staging a production of Arthur Honegger’s oratorio “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher,” or “Joan of Arc at the Stake,” in which the heroine appears dressed in men’s clothes and, at one point, naked. The Pro Europa Christiana Federation wants the show orchestrated by Italian director ...

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