The Happenstancers will present “Being Pascal Dusapin” on April 6, 2024 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Toronto. The event will feature sopranos Danika Lorén and Hillary Jean Young, as they take on works by French composer Pascal Dusapin. Among the works on offer will be “Laps,” “Canto,” “If,” “Two Walking,” “Imago,” “Now the Fields,” and “Ohé.” Also on the program {…}
Essential Voices USA will present a sing-along performance of Händel’s “Messiah” on April 13, 2024 at Grace Church in Brooklyn, Heights. The showcase will be conducted by Judith Clurman with Paul Olson at the organ. Soloists include Elisa Singer Strom, Helen Karloski, Paul D’Arcy, and Bryan Murray. “It is my hope that the public will come and join in the {…}
North / South Consonance is set to present “Is Spring Right?” on March 18, 2024 at the National Opera Center in New York. The showcase will feature sopranos Alina Tamborini and Hannah Spierman alongside pianist Max Lifchitz as they take on a wide-ranging program emphasizing the end of winter and the coming of spring. The program features Lonnie Hevia’s “Many {…}
“Telekinetik,” a genre-bending short musical film from composer-performer Khary Laurent and commissioned by Catapult Opera, was released on YouTube on March 7, 2024. The “hip-hopera” is a surreal, moody 10-minute tale of an aspiring vigilante being tormented by a shaman. To tell the story of civilian justice and the violence it leaves in its wake, classically trained Khary Laurent switches {…}
Baritone Jay Stephenson’s original steampunk opera, “Beethoven’s Wrong Note” is set to make its world premiere. “Beethoven’s Wrong Note” features the music of Beethoven transcribed for modern rock instruments, with lyrics based on Stephenson’s book. The story is set in a “proto-Steampunk” era and follows the imagined tale of a final ill-fated piano dress rehearsal. Jay Kamen directs and James {…}
Rhode Island College and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will celebrate Women’s History Month with “Women Trailblazers in Music: A Play-Within-A-Concert.” The showcase, scheduled for March 7 and 10, 2024 at the Carter Center, will meld music, theatre, visual art, and history to present a journey about pioneering women composers throughout history. “These extraordinary women composers have been marginalized, repressed, {…}
L’Ente Luglio Musicale Trapanese in collaboration with Comune di Trapani has announced the XIX Edizione del Concorso Lirico Internazionale “Giuseppe Di Stefano.” The competition will take place in Trapani from April 24 to 28, 2024. The competition will see young performers competing for a role in “Die Zauberflöte” and other prizes such as Premio Menzione speciale Francesco Braschi – Kiwanis {…}
Classically trained, jazz-loving soprano Chelsi Om’Niro is set to present a concert on March 10 ranging from classic arrangements of Negro Spirituals to Art Songs by Daura Burleigh. The evening will be held at the St. Mark’s Church and pianist Jeannine Otis will accompany. Om’Niro studied at Prairie View Arts & Music University and trained at the Meadows School at {…}
(Photo credit: Tynesight Photographic) RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble featuring disabled musicians and non-disabled members of Royal Northern Sinfonia, is set to premiere Héloïse Werner’s “Wander.” Soprano and composer Werner’s newly commissioned work “Wander” is inspired by city life. The composer recreates the sensation of strolling through a bustling landscape and being drawn to buskers, by using a mixture of {…}
Gloriae Dei Cantaores will present “Thou Hearest Me!” on March 8 and 9, 2024 at the Church of the Transfiguration in Rock Harbor, Orleans, MA. The program features “Ave Verum” and “Civitas Sancti Tui” by Byrd; “Voce Mea” by Croce; “Adoramus Te, Christe” by Agostini; “Jesu Rex Admirabilis,” “Sicut Cervis” by Palestrina; “Da Pacem” by Pärt; “Pater Noster by Liszt; {…}
Soprano Susan Narucki will present two recitals in New York this March. The soprano will present “Kafka Fragments” by György Kurtág alongside violinist Curtis Macomber. The work “uses fragments of texts from the diaries of Franz Kafka to create a kaleidoscopic world of sound, sense and expression. Each fragment – some lasting less than a minute –is singular and potent; {…}