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Caccini, Hasse, Scarlatti: Haymarket Shares ’23 Season

The performance lineup features three mainstage operas; all three titles are rare and represent Chicago premieres.

Stephen RaskauskasApril 6, 2018

Video: Hear Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Newest Early Music Ensemble

Stephen RaskauskasApril 4, 2018

Visa difficulties force Esperanza Spalding, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba to cancel Chicago concert

Stephen RaskauskasApril 2, 2018

“Everybody has the blues”: Martin Luther King Jr. on How Music Brings People Together

Sheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘Being interested is what makes you interesting as a musician’

Keegan MorrisMarch 25, 2020

In 2018, 1.9 billion people around the world watched the young cellist — he was just 19 years old at the time — perform during the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Now, he's released his second album, a collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.

Plácido Domingo has coronavirus amid Spain outbreak

Associated PressMarch 22, 2020

The opera star said in a post on his personal Facebook account Sunday that "I feel it is my moral duty to announce to you that I have tested positive for COVID19."

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Inside the Sounds of the Upside Down: Meet the Composers of the Netflix Hit Stranger Things

Michael San GabinoMarch 28, 2018

Get to know Emmy Award-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, and how their interest in experimental music prepared them to score one of the definitive shows of our era.

For the Record: The Library of Congress Welcomes Four Classical Recordings to the National Recording Registry

Candice AgreeMarch 27, 2018

Every year since 2002, the National Recording Registry selects a number of sound recordings to honor. Here are four classical recordings registered this year.

Opera in New York City to feature inmates recorded in Iowa

Associated PressMarch 26, 2018

CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Inmates from an eastern Iowa prison have spent weeks learning German and perfecting inflections for a recording that will be played during a New York City opera performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Heartbeat Opera invited the Oakdale Community Choir of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center to perform the “Prisoner’s Chorus” for its New York City live ...

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