“It’s like a fairy tale, the whole thing,” the composer Tobias Picker said the other day, standing in a Boston rehearsal studio. He was presiding over a run-through of an opera that he adapted from ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, in 2020, and the cultural upheavals that ensued, classical-music organizations began including more composers of color in their programs. The Philadelphia ...
With a distinctly American vision of communal life and entertainment, these theaters have survived fires and floods because they were always about more than classical music.
While performing on the piano in a public space, pianist Aurélien Froissart received one of the cutest musical requests ...
Has a review of Eugene Onegin—that is, a performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera, based on Pushkin’s novel-in-verse—ever begun with the Nanny? Well, this one will. She was Larissa Diadkova, at the ...
Opera singers are admired for their powerful and expressive voices, achieved through years of rigorous training. In opera singing competitions, judges evaluate the performances of aspiring singers by ...
The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by Paul Pines (1941–2018). Pines wrote the libretto. The opera will be ...