Music
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The Lion in Winter - the Play
A Gripping Real-Life Battle Royal
By: - Oct 25th, 2026Henry may be king, but he still has to deal with his wife, Queen Eleanor's power, despite her being his prisoner for 10 years. Their battle concerns not just her freedom but succession, she being for Richard, and he for John.
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Manon
Jules Massenet as His Lyrical Best
By: - Oct 23rd, 2026Committed to a convent as an adolescent, Manon escapes to a relationship that will be compromised by the interference of her lover's father. The complex femme fatale undergoes a roller coaster of changing fortune performed to beautiful Romantic music.
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Lincoln in the Bardo at the Met Opera
Missy Mazzoli Triumphs
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Missy Mazzoli’s new opera, Lincoln in the Bardo, recently had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. As a leading contemporary American composer, Mazzoli writes exceptionally well for the human voice. The Met has provided a luxury cast featuring Peter Mattei as Lincoln alongside Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, all in top form.
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Streetcar Named Desire
At Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Oct 21st, 2026Next up in its 50th Season, Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) presents André Previn’s acclaimed opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre. A co-production with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, STREETCAR plays three performances November 5-8.
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Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
By: - Oct 20th, 2026Once “Sophisticated Ladies” takes off, it rarely slows down. In the first act, it’s about 30 minutes before the tempo softens briefly for a tender version of “Solitude.” But it doesn’t stay that way for long.
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Carrie the Musical
At Manatee Players
By: - Oct 20th, 2026You get a lot of intensity and just enough blood if not outright frightening moments in the Manatee Players production of “Carrie: The Musical.”
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Every Saturday Night: A Harlem of the West Musical
World Premiere About Urban Renewal in San Francisco
By: - Oct 17th, 2026The Fillmore was the Bay Area's center of African-American life and jazz in the 1950s. An ill-advised urban renewal project displaced over 10,000 residents and forever destroyed the area's character. A new musical looks at the environs then and now through the context of a fictional family
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Greek National Opera at Carnegie Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Supports Culture
By: - Oct 17th, 2026The Greek National Opera made its United States debut at Carnegie Hall with a program titled Nikos Kazantzakis An Odyssey in Music. Kazantzakis' novels are among the most frequently translated across the globe, and his iconic character Zorba came alive on stage at Carnegie.
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Ben Bliss at the Park Avenue Armory
Mix and Match Songs Accompanied by Christopher Allen
By: - Oct 15th, 2026In the opera house, he is known as Benjamin Bliss and is highly regarded. At the Park Avenue Armory’s Board of Officers Room, he goes simply by Ben, singing a wide range of songs in his beautiful voice and speaking to us through the sound of music.
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
Early Mozart Singspiel that Foretold Later Operatic Masterpieces
By: - Oct 14th, 2026A light-hearted culture clash between Europeans and Turks begins with captivity but ends in magnanimity.
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Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
Summer 2027 Co Production Barrington Stage and Tectonic Theatre Project
By: - Oct 14th, 2026“Sunday in the Park with George is one of the great achievements of the American musical theater—an exploration of the passion and courage it takes to create something beautiful and lasting,” said BSC’s Artistic Director Alan Paul. “It reminds us why art matters, and why we devote our lives to making it.”
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Berkshire Opera Festival
Martin Mansfield New President and CEO
By: - Oct 13th, 2026Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) has announced the appointment of Martin Mansfield as its new President and CEO, bringing extensive experience in arts leadership, fundraising, law, and opera to the organization.
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Vikingur Olafsson and The Berlin Philharmoniker
Carnegie Hall Launches New Season
By: - Oct 13th, 2026The Berlin Philharmoniker performed a second program on October 9 and 11 to inaugurate Carnegie Hall’s new season. Brahms's challenging first piano concerto began the program. This difficult work began life as a two-piano piece, morphed into a symphony, and finally became a concerto. Its problems were not only solved by the pianist Vikingur Olafsson and the orchestra, but translated musically into virtues.
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Berlin Philharmonikker at Carnegie Hall
Painting Italy in Sound
By: - Oct 09th, 2026The Berlin Philharmoniker painted soundscapes in Carnegie Hall to open their season. Collaborating with their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, Rome and Italy came alive in New York. Tenor extraordinaire Jonas Kaufmann joined in to offer a grounded view of the struggles and passions of every person.
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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein BSO Artist in Residence
Schedule of Performances
By: - Oct 06th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces the addition of recital dates in November and April by 2026–27 Artist in Residence Alisa Weilerstein. The acclaimed cellist, who performs Prokofiev as soloist with the BSO and guest conductor Paavo Järvi on February 4-6, adds fall and spring recitals to her residency.
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Parlando Presents The City Without Jews
Ian Niederhoffer Conducts Olga Neuwirth
By: - Oct 06th, 2026Ian Niederhoffer founded Parlando a little over five years ago, and his programming has been both adventuresome and unusual. His presentation of the film The City Without Jews, produced in 1924 and then lost, was an important step in restoring our picture of the culture of Central Europe in the crucial period between the First and Second World Wars.
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Suor Angelica
Puccini's Tragedy in the Covent
By: - Oct 05th, 2026The intense 60-minute opera tells of a young woman consigned to the convent as punishment for having a child out of wedlock. Having already subjugated earthly desires to serving God, she is asked to make one final sacrifice.
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Mannes Produces Suor Angelica
Puccini in a Cathoic Church
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Mannes School of Music filled the nave of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Arguably the best music school in New York, Mannes produces wonderful operas and concerts week after week. They are offered free and they're always a treat.
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Snow Goose Lays an Egg
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 01st, 2026I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.
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Sophie B. Hawkins at Joe's Pub
Previews upcoming musical Birds of New York
By: - Sep 28th, 2026Featuring book, music, and lyrics written by Sophie B. Hawkins, BIRDS OF NEW YORK brings to life the heartfelt story of an estranged daughter who returns home to New York City with her seven-year-old son to reconnect with her dying father.
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Lincoln in the Bardo Preview
Death of ClassicL and Greenwood Cemetery Magical Partners
By: - Sep 27th, 2026Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thea Musgrave's Tragic Opera
By: - Sep 26th, 2026At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.
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What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow
Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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Don Giovanni
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of Mozart Classic
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season
Launches with William Tell
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.
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