The University Musical Society at the University of Michigan is set to present Renée Fleming and Inon Barnatan in concert. The recital, which is set to take place on Sept. 28, 2023 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, will be based around the soprano’s 2023 Grammy Award-winning recording “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.” The showcase will feature music by Caroline {…}
The Los Angeles Master Chorale has announced the next two major shows in its 2022-23 season. First up is “Choose Something Like A Star.” The showcase, which will be directed by Artistic Director Grant Gershon, is set to take place on Feb. 12, 2023 at Walt Disney Concert Hall. “Choose Something Like A Star” will feature must by Brahms, Schumann, {…}
Roderick Williams and Kate Royal are set to provide masterclasses and a recital at Milton Court this February. First up, Williams will give a masterclass on Feb. 21, 2022 at 6 p.m. Two days later, on Feb. 23, 2022 at 4 p.m., Kate Royal will give her class. Both classes are set to take place at Milton Court Concert Hall {…}
Tenor Brian Cheney is set to continue his weekly recital series with a concert dedicated to the music of Gabriel Fauré. The showcase, scheduled for Friday, June 3, 2021, will feature Cheney alongside long-time collaborator Cathy Venable. The program represents the sixth in the duo’s composer series. The duo has dedicated concert performances to the music of Leonard Bernstein, John {…}
Death of Classical has announced a brand new series of concerts for its 2021 season. We will focus solely on vocal performances in this article, though it is worth noting that the series will feature collaborations with the New York Philharmonic, violinist Gil Shaham, pianist Min Kwon, the PUBLIQuartet, the Ulysses Quartet, and pianist Simone Dinnerstein. But for opera lovers, {…}
(Credit: © Dario Acosta) Soprano Anna Netrebko will perform a double recital at the Philharmonie de Paris on Nov. 11, 2020. The soprano will give the first recital at 5:00 p.m CET, and the second one will follow at 8:30 p.m. at the Grande salle Pierre Boulez. Anna Netrebko will be joined onstage by the mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova. Giovanni Andrea Zanon {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced that it will reopen its doors to the public after the six-month hiatus. The opera house has confirmed in the press release that the Opéra Bastille will reopen on November 23, with the premiere of the first night of the Ring Festival in the concert form. Per the press release, the fully staged {…}
(Photo Credit: Dario Acosta) February 4, 2020, saw the latest installment of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series, with the evening’s recital featuring renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau. The program, titled “Fauenliebe und –leben: Variations,” took Schumann’s song cycle and fleshed out a fuller narrative, using a breadth of musical works from other composers which spanned eight languages. {…}
Star Russian soprano Hibla Gerzmava performed a recital program featuring art song compositions by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Prokofiev sprinkled with a dramatic dash of Donizetti and Verdi on Nov. 1, 2019 at Carnegie Hall. Her appearance was not without controversy. To get to the main entrance, recital-goers needed to push past Pro-Ukrainian activists lining the sidewalk and holding placards in {…}
Update: Due to illness, Hamaoui withdrew from this concert. In her stead, tenor Stéphane Sénéchal has stepped in to perform alongside Markham for the May 17 concert. They will perform music of Fauré, Debussy, Duparc, Poulenc, Hahn, Gounod, and more. The original story follows. Pianist Mark Markham will be a featured artists at the 2019 Spring Into Art Song Festival. {…}
Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré were born on the same day three years apart. May 12, 1842, brought us the former and three years later, his impressionist counterpart was born. The two were prominent French composers of their time, though one is better known for his orchestral works and the other for his opera. Fauré did compose two operas and {…}