Daniel Barenboim has canceled his North American tour. Barenboim said, “It is with great regret that I need to withdraw from the Staatskapelle Berlin’s upcoming concert tour to North America and Canada. I was very much looking forward to returning to this tour, but my health simply does not allow me to undertake the strenuous transatlantic travel and the many {…}
The Young People’s Chorus of New York City is set to present “A Very Merry New York” at David Geffen Hall on Dec. 10, 2023. The showcase will feature 600 young voices from around New York City under Artistic Director/ Founder Francisco J. Núñez and conductors Ahra Cho, Caitlin Henning, Maria Peña and Emma Sway. “A Very Merry New York” {…}
The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its second annual Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival. “Building on last season’s successful launch of the Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, the 2024 edition will continue to bring together our community and several of Cleveland’s great cultural institutions for exploration, discussion, and reflection around the theme of ‘Power,’” said André Gremillet, {…}
(Photo: Neil Harrison Photography) Northern Ireland Opera is not flush with money. Fortunately, however, it has an imaginative artistic director in Cameron Menzies, whose innovative approach ensures that the company is able to provide a wide range of productions over the season, which it tours to locations across the province. Unable to afford more than a single fully staged opera {…}
(Copyright: Kaupo Kikkas) Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska will make her Tippet Rise Art Center debut next season on August 18, 2024. Nikolovska will perform at the 12,500-acre working ranch and outdoor performance space alongside pianist Kunal Lahiry. The duo are set to give their program in the Olivier Music Barn. It will feature music by Rainier, Copland, Schubert, Prokofiev, Emily Doolittle, {…}
Overtone Industries, a genre-bending opera-theater company, is set to host “Original Vision: Leveling,” its third annual presentation of workshops from developing composers and librettists. The “Original Vision” project focuses on encouraging and guiding composers and librettists to develop their unique visions in an authentic, boundary-breaking environment. The project consists of a six-week workshop period with dedicated mentorship from Overtone’s leadership. {…}
(Photo credit: NYT) Music critic and journalist Anthony Holden passed away on Oct. 7 at the age of 76. Holden worked for several British new sources covering the Royal family, he served as a Washington Correspondent and US editor for The Observer (1979–81), Assistant Editor of The Times (1981–82), Executive Editor of Today, (1985–86), and was the chief classical music {…}
(Photo credit: Kristen Loken) San Francisco Opera concludes its fall season with concerts by the Adler Fellows and the San Francisco Opera Chorus. “The Future Is Now” features the 2023 Adler Fellows, sopranos Arianna Rodriguez, Mikayla Sager and Olivia Smith, mezzo-sopranos Gabrielle Beteag and Nikola Printz, tenors Victor Cardamone, Edward Graves and Moisés Salazar, bass-baritone Jongwon Han, and pianists Yang {…}
Pasadena Chorale is set to present its free holiday concert on Dec. 5, 2023. The event will feature Shawn Kirchner’s “The Light of Hope Returning” at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, California. The ensemble delivered the LA premiere of the piece back in December 2022. The Pasadena Chorale will be joined by the High Notes, a choir of {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced initiatives to make the company’s initiatives and activities more ecological. “Art is born from constraint; integrating environmental challenges to our activities is not an obstacle to the liberty of creation but inversely, an opportunity to enrich the way we think about projects and the way the Opéra interacts with its public and partners,” {…}
Tigran Abramovich Alikhanov Moscow Conservatory’s head of the Chamber Ensemble and Quartet Department passed away on Oct. 29 at the age of 80. Alikhanov was born in 1943 in Moscow. His father Abram Alikhanov, was the founder and first director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics named after him. His mother Slava Roshal, was a violin soloist at {…}