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In Berlin, the director Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production dispenses with the opera’s final sextet and leads directly into ...
Opera can tell small, intimate tales as well as fill the vast canvases of Aida or Boris Godunov, but the acoustics of the ...
Sandra Cisneros, the award-winning author of “The House on Mango Street,” visited Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Wednesday to read ...
The opera house in Kharkiv was almost destroyed and an undetonated Russian rocket can still be found on its roof. But after a long interruption, the ensemble is once again staging productions - in the ...
William Christie is as busy as ever in a season celebrating his 80th birthday, conducting, playing the harpsichord, ...
And it's a show where the music will thump you in the chest ... addressing the audience or giving them a knowing look as if to say 'this shouldn't work should it, but it's brilliant'.
Wagner’s universe, in the second of his Ring operas which brings semi-humans on board to challenge the gods, matches ...
The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore’s “Giants in the Earth,” a Pulitzer ...
STONINGTON, Maine (WABI) - A historical staple in the town of Stonington is celebrating 25 years as a non-profit. Sitting tall on Opera House Lane in Stonington or as locals call it Russ’ Hill ...
In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has ...
For Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Heartbeat went to prisons and recorded the voices of incarcerated people, who appeared on video singing the Prisoners Chorus. For Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” the two main ...