Despite the art form’s foreign origins, composers such as Antonín Dvořák, George Gershwin and Charles Ives have managed to ...
Despite the rising costs of nearly everything else, South Florida is the land of the $Free.99 concerts and the home of the in ...
Malin Byström lives her characters. She is steely of purpose as Beethoven ’s Leonore in ‘Abscheulicher’ – pity Don Pizarro. And if she isn’t quite ‘knowing’ enough as the Countess in the final scene ...
Mignon Dunn's dramatic vocals made her a popular and mesmerizing star at New York's Metropolitan Opera and on stages around ...
British director Harry Fehr balances the Orientalism of Act One by leaning into the American stereotypes of Act Two. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
IT’S unlikely that you’ve ever lost sleep wondering what Queen Victoria’s favourite opera was. But for the record, it was Bellini’s I Puritani (The Puritans) which, despite royal enthusiasm, went on ...
Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730) was considered by many to be the greatest actress of her day, shunning stylized vocal ...
A new 56-track recording of Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans features mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená in the title role alongside four soloists and the Academia Mont ...
On the hottest day of the year so far, conditions were sweltering even in the shady Theatre in the Woods that Grange Park ...
An evening of opera is set to light up the courtyard in Llanfyllin. North Wales Opera is bringing 'A Night at the Opera' to The Workhouse on Saturday, July 18, promising a blend of classic and ...
Soprano Kirsten Ashley Wiest, tenor Elias Berezin, and ten-year-old soprano Sara Zhou, with the accompaniment of Jonathan Keplinger on piano, filled Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church with operatic drama on ...
Listeners in the 17th and 18th centuries experienced music in a startlingly vivid – and physical way. A fascinating academic project is wondering if we should let ourselves be much more moved, and get ...