(Photo credit: Lawrence Sumulong) Summer for the City has announced hundreds of free events to take place at Lincoln Center over three months. For the purposes of this article, only vocal works are featured. Opening the summer series is the Lincoln Center’s new commission from director James Blaszko in a new work that unites opera, drag, queerness, and gender expression {…}
(UPDATE: OperaWire has been informed that due to a snowstorm, the concert has been postponed to Feb. 14, 2024. The article continues as follows with the original date listed). Music of the Americas is set to present a recital featuring Sonya Headlam and Rebecca Cypess entitled “Translatlantic Music Heritage from Sancho to Johnson.” Scheduled for Feb. 13 at Americas Society {…}
Trinity Church Wall Street has announced its 2024 spring season. This article only features vocal works. Downtown Voices presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Carol Barnett’s “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass,” along with Benedict Sheehan’s “In the Wondrous Blending of Sounds” from “Akathist,” Arnold Schönberg’s “Friede auf Erden,” Op. 13, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Devo” from {…}
(Photo credit: Freddie Collier & Jennifer Taylor) The Lincoln Center announced its “Summer for the City” series in its inaugural season under Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Jonathon Heyward. This article only features vocal works. Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges sings Peter Lieberson’s “Neruda Songs,” in “Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducts Haydn and Ginastera.” Performance Dates: July 30 & 31, 2024 “An {…}
Notes for Growth Foundation is set to present “Tremün: Celebrating Indigenous Roots” on Oct. 15, 2021 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City. The program, which will represent the organization’s debut concert at Carnegie Hall, will feature the premiere of nine new works by Latinx composers such as Patricio Molina, Ramón Catalan, Aina Sandoval, Carlos Zamora, and {…}
On May 6, 2021, Cal Performances at Home will launch the video premiere of “Steel Hammer,” a new film that features the oratorio by Bang on a Can’s co-founder and Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Wolfe. Wolfe’s “Steel Hammer” explores the over 200 versions of the John Henry ballad, weaving and fragmenting all the variations that have risen since the 1800s into {…}