Music
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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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The Village Trip in New York
Annual Downtown Festival
By: - Sep 07th, 2026September 25-October 4: The Village Trip celebrates culture and history in NYC’s iconic Greenwich Village. The 2026 edition of this annual festival includes nearly a dozen concerts performed by established classical and contemporary musicians and rising stars.
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Smoke Jazz Club
Vincent Herring Starts the Fall Program
By: - Sep 04th, 2026Smoke, the iconic jazz club on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has everything. First and foremost, the music is wonderful. Set in a smallish room with plush red velvet curtains bracketing the stage and three tiny chandeliers dotting the ceiling, the room is warm and comfortable. The acoustics are great.
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Key Chorale Launches New Season
Twentieth Under Joseph Caulkins
By: - Sep 04th, 2026When he was first hired as artistic director of Key Chorale in 2007, Joseph Caulkins figured he would lead the chorus of more than 100 voices for five or six years and then move on to the next job opportunity. It was such a different organization back then that he never expected to be preparing for his 20th season.
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Music at Clark Art Institute
Fall Programming
By: - Sep 04th, 2026This autumn, the Clark Art Institute presents an exciting lineup of performing arts events spanning multiple genres. There's something to delight every music fan!
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Batboy the Musical
Sarasota Players
By: - Aug 29th, 2026“Bat Boy: The Musical” is one of the most unusual and bizarre shows you’re likely to come across. That shouldn’t be surprising considering it was inspired in part by a 1992 story in the mostly fictional Weekly World News tabloid newspaper, about the discovery of a boy who was half human and half bat.
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Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Invincible
The Met Opera and Associates Host in David Geffen Hall
By: - Aug 28th, 2026The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra stopped off at David Geffen Hall in New York as part of their Invincible Tour. The first program was bracketed by two urgent works—notably a new suite by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets.
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Lili Elbe
Winning Opera of Early Transsexual Surgery
By: - Aug 16th, 2026Santa Fe Opera offers an imposing American premiere of Tobias Picker's powerful statement about an oppressed group through the biography of Lili Elbe, who underwent sex reassignment surgery a century ago.
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The Magic Flute
Santa Fe Opera's Visual and Vocal Kaleidoscope
By: - Aug 15th, 2026Mozart's popular fable-like singspiel is given a scintillating, near comic-like treatment. The hero wins the girl and passes the tests of the brotherhood
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Orpheus Descending
Flawed but Worthy Play with Strong Treatment
By: - Aug 11th, 2026Oakland Theater Project takes on Tennessee Williams' Southern Gothic tale and adds another dimension by making Val, the Orpheus figure, black. Drifting into a Southern town and becoming intimate with a white woman in the early 1950s is not likely to have a positive outcome.
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American Apollo
Another Hit for West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 09th, 2026In truth, a young black man, Thomas McKeller, modeled for famed portrait artist John Singer Sargent for several years. In truth, did they have an affair? An entertaining contemporary opera explores the fantasy.
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Carmen in Salzburg
Asmik Grigorian Shines in Her Role Debut
By: - Aug 09th, 2026Carmen arrived in a new production at Salzburg this summer, featuring Asmik Grigorian in her role debut as the title character. Everything we have come to expect from this glorious singer. is alive on stage at the Grosses Festspielhaus.. Her acting fully matches her vocal prowess. S
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Rinaldo
Holy Crusader as Modern Comic Superhero
By: - Aug 04th, 2026West Edge Opera has adapted the storyline of Handel's Baroque opera into a tale of a superhero who joins forces with the police to fight organized crime. It works.
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The Turn of the Screw
Britten's Sinister Opera Based on Henry James's Novella
By: - Aug 03rd, 2026Without the presence of parents, an untried governess is hired to care for two children on an English country estate. She becomes ensnared by the ghosts of the deceased and the deceptions of the children in her charge.
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Ariadne auf Naxos
Merola Opera's Spectacular Portrait
By: - Jul 31st, 2026When opera and burlesque companies must perform simultaneously for a wealthy patron, consternation commences and a delightful mashup follows.
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The Wooten Brothers Come to Berlin
Zig Zag's Jazz Fesitval Presents the Curtis Mayfield Headliners
By: - Jul 26th, 2026The Wooten Brothers performed at Zig Zag’s Jazz Festival in Berlin. They have quite a history.
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Chesterwood Arts Alive
Music From the Spanish Baroque
By: - Jul 24th, 2026Chesterwood will present a concert of Spanish music performed by Boston Baroque’s The X-tet with GRAMMY® winning tenor Karim Sulayman on Saturday, August 1 at 5:30 PM. The performance is part of Chesterwood's music, dance, and literary arts series ArtsAlive!.
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Tanglewood Celebrates Serge Koussevitsky
Digital Release in November of Complete BSO Recordings
By: - Jul 24th, 2026As the annual Tanglewood Music Festival marks its founder Serge Koussevitzky’s 152nd birth anniversary this weekend, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Sony Classical announce the digital release this November of Serge Koussevitzky: The Complete Boston Symphony Recordings (1928–1950).
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La Rondine
Pocket Opera's Fine Take on Puccini's Less Produced Masterpiece
By: - Jul 21st, 2026Magda is a courtesan supported by a wealthy banker, but she falls in love with a younger man. Can a tiger change its stripes? Must a swallow always fly home?
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Zig Zag Jazz Festival in Berlin
Ella Radio co-sponsors
By: - Jul 21st, 2026The Zig Zag Jazz Festival runs from July 20 to August 1 in Berlin. Zig Zag is often voted the best jazz club in Europe. The event is co-sponsored by Ella Radio (available both as an app and on the web). The festival takes place at Gasometer in the Schöneberg section of Berlin
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Hairspray The Broadway Musical
The Joint is Jumpin' at SF Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2026This John Waters creation has legs. The hit Broadway musical has lost none of its pizzazz or its underlying social commentary. It's 1962, and the overweight Tracy tries out for the Corny Collins Show. Not a big enough hill to climb, she tries to integrate it too.
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Jazz at Deutsche Oper in Berlin
Syncopated Scheherazade
By: - Jul 14th, 2026Deutsche Oper presents a small series of narrated jazz concerts in their Tischlerei theater space in Berlin. Converted from former workshops, this intimate venue is the hub for the Junge Deutsche Oper and features world premieres, bold installations, participatory community projects, and chamber or jazz concerts.
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La Tragédie de Carmen
Merola Triumphs with Peter Brook's Minimalistic Adaptation
By: - Jul 10th, 2026Minimalist theater director Peter Brook strips this war horse to 80 minutes of essentials. As an intimate psychological intimacy, the plot line is jolting, often lacking the motivations behind characters' actions. But the music is Carmen, and the cast is talented, so forgiveness for numerous transgressions is in order.
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Handel at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin
Elena Tsallagova Rocks as Cleopatra
By: - Jul 09th, 2026The Deutsche Oper’s mounting of the David McVicar production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto has stood the test of time. First presented over twenty years ago, it still seems grand and full of life.
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