(Photo credit: Iwan Baan) The Perelman Performing Arts Center announces its 2026-27 lineup. This article only features classical vocal concerts. First up is the song cycle, “The Puerto Rico Experiment” by Angélica Négron with Balún and Roomful of Teeth. This is a Democracy Cycle world premiere song cycle commission. Performance Dates: January 16-23, 2027 Timothy Long presents the “North American Indigenous {…}
For its 2024-25 home season, Ensemble for These Times presents “Women in Transit.” This article only includes vocal performances. Opening the 17th anniversary season is “In Motion.” The concert features world premieres by Ursula Kwong-Brown, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Mary Bianco, as well as works by Benjamin Britten, York Bowen, Lisa Bielawa, Vivian Fung, Sage Shurman, and Zhou Tian, with {…}
Opera Philadelphia has announced that it will stream “The Island We Made.” The new digital offering will combine ethereal electronic music, personal storytelling, arthouse filmmaking, and the transformative art of drag lip-sync to form an art-opera film. “The Island We Made” was created by composer Angélica Negrón, drag superstar Sasha Velour, and filmmaker Matthew Placek and is based on the {…}