Music
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The Mount and NY's Grace Church Collaborate
Wharton's Roman Fever a New Opera
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Mount and Grace Church Celebrate Edith Wharton with a One-Night-Only Event on April 9th in NYC – Adapting Wharton: The Operatic Reimagining of Roman Fever
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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Mannes Opera Presents a Korngold Premiere
A Silent Serenade Given its Delicious US Debut
By: - Mar 14th, 2026Mannes Opera mounted the United States premiere of Erich Korngold’s The Silent Serenade at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York. Korngold set the standard for film scoring during his decade in Hollywood, and the insights he gained while scoring Robin Hood are evident in this charming blend of Johann Strauss and Jack Warner.
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World Premiere about High School Girls and Music
By: - Mar 20th, 2026Four high schoolers meet in a summer music program for girls in Berkeley, California. Despite differences in performance preference, classical vs. improv, as well as life styles, the four find an ability to mesh their skills and form friendships.
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Anything Goes at Alterena Playhouse
Cole Porter's Beloved Chestnut
By: - Mar 29th, 2026Billy Crocker impulsively stows away on a cruise ship crossing to London. Avoiding his boss, who is onboard, and the captain prove a challenge. Pratfalls ensue, but so do amorous couples.
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The Brady Bunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady
This is What Happens After Cancellation
By: - Apr 02nd, 2026In a crazy, mixed-up world, Keith Partridge and Marcia Brady fall star-crossed in love, and a plague of carnage befalls their television houses. Despite the accumulation of body sacks, the farce remains a laugher with a mix of surprisingly listenable music.
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Saariaho's Innocence Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera
Will the 21st century Masterpiece Succeed in New York
By: - Apr 02nd, 2026Innocence, a twenty-first century masterpiece, has its Metropolitan Opera debut on April 6. Many of the artists attached to the world premiere in Aix five years ago come with this production, first and foremost, the composer Kaija Saariaho.
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BSO Announces BSO 2026-27 Season
Andris Nelsons at the Podium
By: - Apr 07th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons announce their 2026–27 subscription season — the orchestra’s 146th — running from September 18, 2026, through May 9, 2027. Subscriptions (fixed and flexible “choose your own” packages) are available now, and single tickets may be purchased starting July 31.
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Saariaho's Innocence Beautiful at the Met Opera
The Composer's final opera is a Masterpeice
By: - Apr 07th, 2026Innocence, Kaija Saariaho’s searing meditation on collective guilt, received its New York premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Many of the artists from its world premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival five years ago are present here: Susanna Mälkki conducts, bringing her close collaboration with Saariaho to bear, alongside the brilliant director Simon Stone. Stone makes a work live in the moment, a powerful invitational tool for audiences.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Presents Flower and Hawk
At Historic Ventfort Hall in Lenox
By: - Apr 08th, 2026This intimate, 50-minute performance (no intermission), sung in English, brings to life one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages—queen of two nations, mother of kings, and a commanding political force. Set during her imprisonment in Salisbury Tower, Flower and Hawk unfolds as Eleanor reflects on the triumphs and betrayals that shaped her extraordinary life.
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Barbara Hannigan Returns to the NY Phil
Hannigan sings Poulen's Human Voice
By: - Apr 13th, 2026Barbara Hannigan arrives at the New York Philharmonic on April 23. Her memorable debut was in Grigor Ligetti’s opera Le Grand Macabre under conductor Alan Gilbert fifteen years ago. It sold out. The production was the Philharmonic's first opera, directed by Doug Fitch with a multimedia set and backdrop. Hannigan will sing and conduct Poulenc's Human Voice.
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Nelsons Exodus from the BSO
Is a New Directorial Model Being Created
By: - Apr 14th, 2026Andris Nelsons will leave the Boston Symphonhy in 2027. Everything about his departure is guesswork until Chad Smith, President and CEO, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra board speak publicly.
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Jazz Appreciation Month
Music in the Berkshires
By: - Apr 18th, 2026Founder Ed Bride has retired. This is the first program organized by the new president Chuck Walker.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Pocket Opera's Wonderful Chamber Opera Adaptation
By: - Apr 18th, 2026Benjamin Britten hits the right notes with a delightful condensation of Shakespeare's complex but lovable comedy, full of clever plot devices and fun characters. Pocket Opera excels in casting over 20 parts with fine matches, and the score is a great fit for the world premiere concert orchestra version.
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Barbara Hannigan at the New York Philharmonic
Thrilling
By: - Apr 27th, 2026Barbara Hannigan made her conducting debut at the Wu Tsai Hall in David Geffen Hall. The performance was breathtaking. Singing Fracis Poulenc’s La voix Humaine, Hannigan makes music visible in her movements. The orchestra understood her every gesture and engaged.
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Giancarlo Guerrero Ignites Sarasota Orchestra
Announces Second Season Program
By: - Apr 27th, 2026As he nears the end of his first season as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero is quickly feeling part of a large community of music lovers. Even as he spends most of his time flying around the world for other engagements, he has been a frequent visitor to Sarasota, conducting numerous concerts, working on plans to build a new music center and getting to know the musicians, donors and staff.
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Death of Classical Previews the Met Opera
Missy Mazzoli and Gabriela Lena Frank Featured in Underworld Venues
By: - May 10th, 2026Death of Classical is a spunky classical music producer that takes performers and audiences into strange and wonderful spaces, where they enjoy whiskey, burgers, and music. In the past week, the composers of two upcoming productions of the Metropolitan Opera have been previewed.
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Mohawk Trail Concerts
Telegraph Quartet at Charlemont Federated Church
By: - May 12th, 2026On Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 5pm, the Telegraph Quartet (Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violins; Pei-Ling Lin, viola; Jeremiah Shaw, cello), a group The New York Times describes as “full of elegance and pinpoint control” is presented by Mohawk Trail Concerts. The performance will be held at Charlemont Federated Church (175 Main St.).
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Goodspeed Opera House Rocks
Fine Production of Jesus Christ Superstar
By: - May 13th, 2026As expected, this is a very good production of the show; Justin Matthew Sargent, the lead, has played the role before, including as a stand-in for John Legend during rehearsals of the television live television production. His experience shows not only in the vocals, but also in the interpretation of the role. His Jesus is gentle, determined, but also scared.
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Alec Baldwin at Tanglewood
Premiere of Philip Glass Symphony
By: - May 15th, 2026Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin will narrate the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait on Sunday, July 5 at 2:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. The award-winning actor and classical music enthusiast joins a special Independence Day weekend program that features two other Lincoln-inspired works. The centerpiece is the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 15.
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Heartbeat Opera Punches Up Vanessa
Samuel Barber's Opera in Shadowy Chamber Form
By: - May 18th, 2026Samuel Barber’s Vanessa is playing at the Baruch Performing Arts Center after a smashing run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival last summer. R. B. Schlather, also of Hudson Hall, directs: Hot sex in a cold clime. This story was originally told in veils and mirrors, which have been translated into shadows by Heartbeat Opera.
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - May 20th, 2026Playing Billie Holiday is the type of meaty role any actor would die for. Billie Holiday is revered as one of, if not the premiere, jazz singers of the 20th century. Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill by Lanie Robertson, is receiving an excellent production at Ivoryton Playhouse.
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Experiments in Opera at HERE
Constance the Con Artist is Brazen Fun
By: - May 20th, 2026Experiments in Opera’s new opera, Constance: A Confession, is the sixth opera created in a unique collaborative Writers' Room. It is modeled on workshops like the one in the movie Mank. Writers and composers gather together and hash out wonderful tales. They are often serials, like soap operas. Yet these are serious soap operas with many laugh-out-loud moments. Attending an Experiments in Opera evening is unqualified fun.
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Sarasota Orchestra Update
Anonymous Gift Toward New Music Center
By: - May 21st, 2026In the latest step toward the realization of its future home, the Sarasota Orchestra announces a gift of $11.7 million from an anonymous donor toward its new music center project on Fruitville Road west of I-75. The donation brings the publicly announced total of fundraising for the center, which is estimated to cost from $375 to $425 million in total, to nearly $87 million.
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Summer at the Naumburg
Wonderful Free concerts in Central Park
By: - May 21st, 2026This year's edition, the 121st season, runs June 9 through August 4, 2026 with five spectacular programs featuring world-class ensembles and soloists at the historic Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park (mid-park at 72nd St.). Concerts begin at 7:30 p.m., no reservations are needed. All will be broadcast live and streamed on WQXR for those unable to attend in person. Visit naumburgconcerts.org for more information and programs
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