iSING! Festival 2024 Review: Mason Bates’s ‘Spring River Flowers by Moonlight’

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For the first generation of singers who traveled to China in 2011, I SING BEIJING was something new and adventurous, but also a bit of a lark. That has changed over the intervening years. On November 2, 2024, the iSING! Festival, as it is now known, and the Philadelphia Orchestra performed under the baton of Marin Alsop at Beijing’s National {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Celebrates ‘Oppenheimer’ with Free ‘Dr. Atomic’ Stream

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The Metropolitan Opera is celebrating the opening of “Oppenheimer” by streaming a 2008 production of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” for free. The production, which will be available to audiences for free through July 28, stars bass-baritone Gerald Finley as Oppenheimer and mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke as Kitty Oppenheimer. Alan Gilbert conducts the opera which also stars Richard Paul Fink and Thomas Glenn. The {…}

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Alice Tully Hall 2023 Review: iSing! Suzhou’s ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

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On Jan. 7, 2023, iSing Suzhou, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Asian Performing Arts Council presented “Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems” at Alice Tully Hall. The event, in celebration of the Lunar New Year, was the culmination of a compositional competition that initiated in 2020. The composition yielded competitions from around the world, and the winners got {…}

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iSING! Suzhou & The Philadelphia Orchestra to Present ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

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iSING! Suzhou and The Philadelphia Orchestra are set to present “Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems” in Celebration of Lunar New Year on Jan. 6 and 7, 2023. The showcase, compromised of settings to ancient Chinese lyrical texts, will feature by such composers as Huanzhi Li, Maishuo Luo, Sam Wu, Tomàs Peire, Xiao Su, Fernando Buide del Real, Conrad Asman, Cong {…}

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Renata Scotto, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton Headline Weeks 66, 67, & 68 of Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next three weeks of nightly streams. The first week will center on Father’s Day, and the following week will celebrate Pride Month, highlighting great performances by artists from the LGBTQ+ community. The final week will be focused on American composers. Additionally, the 1997 telecast of Britten’s “Billy Budd,” featuring Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft, and {…}

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Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Leona Mitchell, Shirley Verrett Headline Next Month of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the next month of nightly streams which focus on a number of unique themes including operas in English, holiday works, and even an entire work dedicated to one of the most iconic artists of all time. Week 39– In Plain English Monday, December 7 – Thomas Adès’s The Tempest Starring Audrey Luna, Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Alek Shrader, {…}

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Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, Joyce DiDonato, Sonya Yoncheva Headline Week 15 of Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Streams

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(Credit: Metropolitan Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has announced Week 15 of its streaming service, which includes performances by such superstars as Sonya Yoncheva, Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Roberto Alagna, and Joyce DiDonato among others. Here is a full breakdown. Monday, June 22 – Verdi’s La Traviata Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From March 11, 2017. {…}

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Ryan Speedo Green, Kelli O’Hara Among Headliners of PBS’ ‘America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together’

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PBS will broadcast “America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together,” a live celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, on Saturday, July 4, 2026. The two-hour special is produced in partnership with Virginia’s American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250) and features performances by bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren, Michael Feinstein, and singer-songwriter Judy {…}

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Pocket Opera 2025-26 Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Shakespeare would be proud. Benjamin Britten would cheer. Pocket Opera must celebrate, for its production of Britten’s Opera “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was a true success. Pocket Opera’s Chamber Opera Company, founded by Donald Pippin and now led by Nicolas A. Garcia, gave us all that delights and stirs in Britten’s musical version of Shakespeare’s famous comedy. At the Thomas {…}

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iSING! Festival 2024 Review: Mason Bates’s ‘Spring River Flowers by Moonlight’

Metropolitan Opera Celebrates ‘Oppenheimer’ with Free ‘Dr. Atomic’ Stream

Alice Tully Hall 2023 Review: iSing! Suzhou’s ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

iSING! Suzhou & The Philadelphia Orchestra to Present ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

Renata Scotto, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton Headline Weeks 66, 67, & 68 of Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Streams

Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Leona Mitchell, Shirley Verrett Headline Next Month of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, Joyce DiDonato, Sonya Yoncheva Headline Week 15 of Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Streams

Ryan Speedo Green, Kelli O’Hara Among Headliners of PBS’ ‘America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together’

Pocket Opera 2025-26 Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream