Brooklyn Art Song Society to Launch ‘New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future’ This April

On April 9, 2021, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the first program in its “New Voices Festival: Past/Present/Future,” featuring world premieres by composers Katherine Balch and Brad and Doug Balliett. First will be the Balliett Brothers, with a re-setting of Schubert’s “Schwanengesang” that draws upon their idiosyncratic styles of composition and performance. Katherine Balch’s “estrangement” will view Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” {…}

Feb 20, 2021

Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present Final Concert in Schubert Festival

The Brooklyn Art Song Society will conclude its Schubert Festival with “Schwanengesang” on Saturday, March 13, 2021. The concert will feature tenor Dominic Armstrong and Joel Harder, soprano Kristina Bachrach, and baritone Michael Kelly accompanied by clarinetist Narek Arutyunian and pianists Michael Brofman and Joel Harder. The first half of the concert will feature Kelly and Brofman taking on “Widerschien,” {…}

Jan 25, 2021

Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present Schubert’s ‘Liebe’

The Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present the fourth concert in its 2020-21 season, entitled “Liebe,” on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. The showcase will place an emphasis on love songs composed by Schubert. The first half of the concert will open with mezzo-soprano Devony Smith interpreting “Im Frühling,” “Geheimes,” Nähe des Gelibeten,” “Versunken,” and “Ganymed,” followed by soprano {…}

Jan 9, 2021

Jonas Kaufmann To Give Recital at Teatro Real de Madrid

(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical) Famed tenor Jonas Kaufmann will give a recital at Teatro Real de Madrid on Jan. 14, 2021. For this occasion, Kaufmann will be accompanied by his long-term collaborator, pianist Helmut Deutsch. The program for the concert includes music by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Dvořák, among others. The {…}

Dec 10, 2020

Opera Meets Film: How Zoe Saldana’s ‘Colombiana’ Uses Opera to Express Cataleya’s Struggle With a World of Toxic Masculinity

“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a film section or a film in its entirety and highlight the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features the {…}

Nov 21, 2020

Brooklyn Art Song Society Announces Bonus Concert in Virtual Schubert Festival

On December 12, 2020, Brooklyn Art Song Society will present the next installment of its virtual Schubert festival. Featuring works not normally shown in mainstage programs, this concert will be filmed live at the Soapbox Gallery in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The program will include “Die Forelle,” “Auf Dem Wasser du singen,” and “Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III).” The artists are {…}

Nov 9, 2020

Chevalier de Saint-George, J’Nai Bridges, Samuel Ramey, Anthony Roth Costanzo Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

It is going to be a fun opera week with a lot of unique viewing experiences for opera lovers around the world. There are modern operas. There are concerts with famed arias. There’s a mystery story. There’s a battle between two queens. There’s some Schubert songs. And a Rossini mass. And of course, there is a high-profile company premiere of {…}

Sep 27, 2020

Music and Theatre for All Receives Major Grant to Develop New Projects

U.K. charity Music and Theatre for All has been awarded a major grant by The Arts Council, which they will use to fund three new projects. The first project is Urban Opera, which will gather participants from across the United Kingdom. Over the next year, the organization will work with local communities, youth groups, choirs, local bands, designers, industry professionals, {…}

Sep 11, 2020

Christian Gerhaher, Joyce DiDonato, Józef Orliński, Benjamin Bernheim Among Nominees for Gramophone Awards 2020

Credit: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Gramophone has announced the recordings that have advanced to the final round of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on vocal, choral, and opera categories. The first contestant in the opera category is the Barber’s “Vanessa,” performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus, under the musical {…}

Aug 27, 2020

Jonas Kaufmann Releases Single From The Upcoming Album

Jonas Kaufmann has released a new track, “Da unten im Tale,” by Johannes Brahms. Brahms’ song is a part of Kaufmann’s new Album “Selige Stunde,” which is due for release on September 4, 2020. Another track, “Mondnacht,” Op. 39/5 by Robert Schumann is now also available. The album also contains lieder such as Silcher’s “Ännchen von Tharau,” Mozart’s “Sehnsucht nach {…}

Aug 22, 2020

Tenor Nicholas Watts to Perform at Leeds Town Hall

(Credit: Danny Courtis) The Leeds Town Hall has announced that it will hold the first live concert on August 28 since the lockdown began in March this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tenor Nicholas Watts will perform a program that includes works by Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart. David Cowan will be at the piano. David Greed will lead the {…}

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