Starting on September, the ninth annual Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival will be streaming four weekly concerts on the organization’s YouTube channel. The concerts were filmed in late July, in front of a private audience at the historic home of Lord Salisbury, whose family has owned Hatfield House since 1607. Led by Dr. Emily Burns, each broadcast will also include {…}
The Phoenix Symphony has announced that it has cancelled the entirety of its 2020-21 season due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. “Today, with heavy hearts, we are writing to share our decision to cancel the previously announced 2020/21 season of concerts due to the COVID-19 global pandemic,” President and CEO Suzanne Wilson wrote in a press release. “While this news {…}
Starting on August 21, musicians from the Chicago Federation of Musicians will commence “Music Helping All Recover Together (M-HART).” The program, which was created by the Chicago musicians union to present music to the larger Chicago community, will feature performances throughout the Chicago Metro area in an effort to lift the spirits of its audience in these challenging times. The {…}
The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts and Classical Movements will be joining forces to present a unique concert as part of the “Songs of Hope & Harmony” series on August 29, 2020. The showcase will feature soprano Alexandria Crichlow and baritone V. Savoy McIlwain alongside pianist Dr. Lester Green. Pamela Simonson will narrate the concert performance.The event {…}
The trailer to “The Sound of Identity” has been released ahead of its premiere at the OUTshine Film Festival. The documentary, which follows baritone Lucia Lucas’s historic Tulsa Opera debut, was directed by James Kicklighter and Executive Produced by Josh Bachove, in Hollywood. The film will also be given a special screening at The Grand Opera House, outside of Atlanta {…}
The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live! has announced that the organization will be streaming archived performances of past concerts as part of its Virtual Concert Series. All proceeds from the broadcasts will go toward supporting company artists. First among these monthly broadcasts is a concert production of Hubert’s 1897 operetta “The Serenade,” running from August 25 – 30. The performance {…}
Seattle Opera has announced a new initiative to help cultivate and develop the next generation of opera composers and librettists in Washington State. The new Creation Lab will seek out 16 emerging composers and writers of all genres to give way to the creation of short operatic pieces, which will be performed during the 2020-21 Season. In a press statement, {…}
On August 19, 2020, Daniel Barenboim will celebrate the 70th anniversary of his stage debut. The famed pianist and conductor will perform a solo recital at the Großes Festspielhaus with music by Beethoven. The repertoire will be similar to his August 19, 1950 recital, and first public concert in Buenos Aires at the age of seven. In that recital, he performed {…}
On August 15, the New York City Opera and Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra teamed up for what was billed as the first live operatic experience in the United States since the lockdown due to COVID-19. The concert, which was held at the Freeman Stage, brought together a small chamber ensemble and four singers who have performed at the New York City {…}
(Photo: Brigitte Duftner) Italian composer Ferdinando Paër (1771 – 1839) is significant in the history of opera for his work during the first decade of the 19th century in developing opera semi-seria by integrating attributes of serious and comic opera. And although no longer well-known, his operas do receive the occasional performance. This year, however, there were a couple of {…}
(Credit: Jan Windszus Photography) Earlier this week, leading German epidemiologists from the prestigious Berlin’s Clinic Charité published a revised study suggesting that the opera houses and concert halls should allow every seat in the audiences to be occupied. The report initially appeared on the website Rbb24.de. However, in a major twist, the Charité’s Board of Directors has distanced itself from {…}