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Met Opera season had no COVID cancellations but sales down

The Metropolitan Opera sold 56% of ticket dollar capacity this season as it returned from a 1 1/2-year absence.

Mary MazurekOctober 13, 2016

An Inside Look at the “GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends”

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 12, 2016

The Surprising Politics of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Kerry FrumkinOctober 12, 2016

WFMT Host Kerry Frumkin’s Postcard From Europe

‘He groped me’: Singer Says Opera’s Domingo Grabbed Breast

Associated PressSeptember 5, 2019

The glittering production was a high point of the Washington Opera’s 1999-2000 season: Jules Massenet’s Le Cid, about a legendary Spanish conqueror, starring a tenor legendary in his own right — Plácido Domingo, then the company’s artistic director. The opera, also being filmed for broadcast on public television, was unquestionably a career break for a 28-year-old singer named Angela Turner ...

Celebrate Art Song and Living Composers in Chicago and Beyond at this Three-Day Festival

Keegan MorrisAugust 29, 2019

In the eyes of tenor Nicholas Phan, living composers and the classical music genre of art song both face a similar obstacle: they’re often overlooked when it comes to programming and promoting classical music.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda: “Arts Education…Saved My Life”

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 7, 2016

Lin-Manuel Miranda has impacted many lives through his Pulitzer Prize-winning work Hamilton: An American Musical. Recently, Miranda revealed how the arts have impacted him, saying that arts education, “saved my life.” The room where it happened was a studio at Hubbard Street Dance Center in Chicago’s West Loop, home of Hubbard Street Dance. Since Hamilton has landed in Chicago, Miranda ...

Hear Kristin Chenoweth’s Operatic Version of the ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme Song

Stephen RaskauskasOctober 6, 2016

The Broadway star — who got her start in opera — shared her operatic talents on a recent episode of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' performing her own unique rendition of the theme song to 'Game of Thrones.'

Oliver Sacks-Inspired Concerto, ‘Five Hallucinations,’ Has Windy City World Premiere

Robbie EllisOctober 6, 2016

"That phrase just runs through and through your head and you cannot get it out. It occupies their entire field of vision, that sentence."

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