2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger

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Bard SummerScape is set to kick off on July 8 and run through August 22. As part of SummerScape, the 31st Annual Bard Music Festival will celebrate the life and works of one of the most important women in music history, Nadia Boulanger (1878 – 1979). The festival will fete the Parisian polymath who taught composition to students such as {…}

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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Promotion of Vinay Parameswaran to Associate Conductor

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The Cleveland Orchestra announced the immediate promotion of Vinay Parameswaran to Associate Conductor, continuing his three-and-a-half-year tenure with the Orchestra through the 2021-22 season. Parameswaran, who served as the Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor since 2017, will continue to hold the Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Assistant Conductor Endowed Chair, despite his new title. Parameswaran will remain The Cleveland Orchestra Youth {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

Felix Jarrar & Bea Goodwin to Stream Virtual Benefit Concert for Artist Relief Tree

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Long time collaborators pianist/composer Felix Jarrar and lyricist/librettist Bea Goodwin have announced “Looking: a Jarrar/Goodwin Benefit for Artist Relief Tree” The event, scheduled for Thursday, January 21 at 7:00 p.m. EST features tenor Josh Kaneklides and soprano Caroline Spaeth. The performance will stream on Jarrar’s YouTube Channel and is free to watch. Donations are encouraged with 25 percent of the {…}

Reviews, Video Productions

PROTOTYPE Festival 2021 Review: Times3 (Times x Times x Times)

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Innovation and extraordinary contemporary production which is vital to the continuation of opera-theatre and music-theatre works is at the core of this year’s annual PROTOTYPE Festival. Both international and local new works presented online at this time give audience members across the globe a chance to experience multimedia and interdisciplinary art that challenges perspectives and invites audience members to listen {…}

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Chiltern Arts Presents Excerpts from Britten’s ‘Saint Nicolas’ Via Free-to-Watch Short Film

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Chiltern Arts presents excerpts from Benjamin Britten’s “Saint Nicolas” cantata via a free-to-view 20-minute video celebrating the story of Santa Claus. Director Bill Barclay has created a powerful, spiritually uplifting film that anticipates the time when we will once more come together to celebrate musicmaking. The film features Royal Opera House tenor Nick Pritchard and British choral and orchestra conductor, {…}

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Zachary James Releases Original Video Rendition of Poe’s ‘The Raven’

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Broadway, opera, and television star Zachary James has released an original video capture of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem, “The Raven.” James’ collaborator, multi-genre composer Kristin Hevner, penned a lush and haunting cinematic score for the bass-baritone’s portrayal of the tortured poet, lending wonderful ambiance as the audience takes a visual trip through Poe’s masterpiece. Dressed in mid-19th-century garb and {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Tiroler Landestheater 2020-21 Review: The Lighthouse

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In December 1900 the HMS Hesperus weighed anchor close to a group of small rocky outcrops known as the Flannan Islands, situated in the Outer Hebrides. It was reacting to a report from a passing ship that the island’s lighthouse was not shining its light. Receiving no signal from the lighthouse, the captain of the Hesperus sent {…}

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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Extends Andris Nelsons Contract

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(Credit: Marco Borggreve) The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig has announced that it has extended the contract with its Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons. The new contract also includes the musical direction of one production each season at the Oper Leipzig. Andris Nelsons simultaneously extended his contract as the Music Director with the Boston Symphony Orchestra until 2025. The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Boston Symphony {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Marlon Daniel on the Chevalier de Saint-Georges & Systematic Racism in Classical Music

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Few artists have dedicated themselves to championing the works of composers of African and African American descent the way that conductor Marlon Daniel has. A Chicago native, Daniel has performed new works by such composers as Fred Onovwerosuoke, Dominique Le Gendre, and Adolphus Hailstork, among others. He also founded the Festival International de Music Saint-Georges in Guadaloupe and was the {…}

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2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger

The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Promotion of Vinay Parameswaran to Associate Conductor

Felix Jarrar & Bea Goodwin to Stream Virtual Benefit Concert for Artist Relief Tree

PROTOTYPE Festival 2021 Review: Times3 (Times x Times x Times)

Chiltern Arts Presents Excerpts from Britten’s ‘Saint Nicolas’ Via Free-to-Watch Short Film

Zachary James Releases Original Video Rendition of Poe’s ‘The Raven’

Tiroler Landestheater 2020-21 Review: The Lighthouse

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Extends Andris Nelsons Contract

Q & A: Marlon Daniel on the Chevalier de Saint-Georges & Systematic Racism in Classical Music