Amanda Forsythe Headlines Music of the Baroque’s ‘Classical Heroines’

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(Credit Tatiana Daubek) Music of the Baroque is set to celebrate Women’s History Month with “Classical Heroines.” The showcase, which is scheduled for March 20-21, 2022 at the North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie and. The Harris Theater in Millennium Park (in Chicago) will be headlined by soprano Amanda Forsythe. The program, which will be conducted by Nicholas {…}

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Tyshawn Sorey Signs Publishing Deal with Edition Peters

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Composer and instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey has signed a publishing agreement with Edition Peters. Winner of a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award, a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, and a 2018 United States Artists Fellowship, Sorey’s work has been performed by such organizations as John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, the Ojai Music Festival, {…}

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Spoleto Festival Announces Full 2022 Details

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The Spoleto Festival has announced full details for the upcoming 2022 season. Operas As previously announced “Omar” will make its world premiere. The new opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels will be directed by Kaneza Schaal and conducted by John Kennedy. The production will star Jamez McCorkle in the title role, Laquita Mitchell, Malcom MacKenzie, Cheryse McLeod Lewis, Catherine Anne {…}

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Bucklesweet Announces Client Events for Spring 2022

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Bucklesweet has announced its client performance lineup for March and April 2022. With events set to take place in Washington, D.C., New York City, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles, audiences around the United States will enjoy live performances across a range of genres and styles. For this article, only vocal performances are listed, and these are by state. Washington {…}

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The Cleveland Orchestra Unveils 2022 Blossom Festival Lineup

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Photo: Roger Mastroianni The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2022 Blossom Music Festival, presented by The J.M. Smucker Company. The Festival, which features 10 weeks of concerts from Fourth of July through Labor Day, comprises nineteen concerts, with programs ranging from Beethoven to film scores to Broadway. All concerts will take place at Blossom Music Center and attendance is free {…}

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Q & A: Tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas on his Breakout Year & ‘Macbeth’ at La Scala

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(Photo credit: Tatiana Mazzola) For Iván Ayón-Rivas, 2021 was a breakout party. Selected by OperaWire as one of the 10 rising stars of 2021, the Peruvian tenor also took home top honors at Operalia before finishing out the year with his opera debut at the Teatro alla Scala. That ascension to opera’s peak was years in the making. Ayón-Rivas began {…}

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Obituary: German Composer Udo Zimmermann Dies at 78

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On Oct. 22, 2021 Udo Zimmermann, a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor died at the age of 78. According to reports Zimmermann died of a long illness. Born on Oct. 6, 1943, in Dresden Germany, Zimmermann became a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor from 1954 to 1962. During that time he was directed by Rudolf Mauersberger and Zimmermann {…}

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Obituary: Composer Luis de Pablo Passes at 91

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(Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Macarrones) Composer Luis De Pablo passed away on October 10 at the age of 91. He was a Basque avant-garde composer, an important member of the well-known Vanguardia de la Música Española and the main exponent of what was called Generación del 51. The Bilbao native created the first electroacoustic music laboratory in Spain and composed {…}

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Anita Rachvelishvili, Angel Blue & Zachary James Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to hear two solo albums from some of the most exciting artists in the industry, world premiere recordings, and a rarely performed opera, among others. Here is a look at the new releases: Élégie Sony Classical will release Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili’s second album. The new album will showcase Rachvelishvili in the song {…}

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Amanda Forsythe Headlines Music of the Baroque’s ‘Classical Heroines’

Tyshawn Sorey Signs Publishing Deal with Edition Peters

Spoleto Festival Announces Full 2022 Details

Bucklesweet Announces Client Events for Spring 2022

The Cleveland Orchestra Unveils 2022 Blossom Festival Lineup

Q & A: Tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas on his Breakout Year & ‘Macbeth’ at La Scala

Obituary: German Composer Udo Zimmermann Dies at 78

Obituary: Composer Luis de Pablo Passes at 91

Anita Rachvelishvili, Angel Blue & Zachary James Lead New CD/DVD Releases