Music
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Gunther Schuller Legacy Concert at Jordan Hall
The Spirit of ’57: Schuller’s Third Stream Revolution and the Music of Today
By: - Nov 11th, 2026Inspired by the historic 1957 Brandeis concert that launched his concept of the Third Stream, The Spirit of ’57: Schuller’s Third Stream Revolution and the Music of Today explores how his spirit of innovation continues to resonate, bringing together contemporary improvisation with traditional Chinese, Hindustani, Jazz, and Yiddish music alongside Schuller’s Transformation, reimaginings of his “Magic Tone Row,” and more.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pre Concert Events
By: - Nov 11th, 2026The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces a slate of pre-concert humanities events in January and February 2027 that complement the orchestra’s performances of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies and Stravinsky’s ballets. All of these events take place at Symphony Hall and are available at no additional charge to concert ticketholders with advance reservation (space is limited).
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U.S. premiere of Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People.
At Jordan Hall in Boston
By: - Nov 09th, 2026Hailed for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera-theater, White Snake Projects (WSP) presents the U.S. premiere of Brent Michael Davids’s monumental orchestral work Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People.
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Nine Pianists in Search of Nocturnes
Ellis Ludwig-Leone Brings a Quiet Hour
By: - Nov 08th, 2026November 8 is World Pianist Day. The evening before, New York's leading young impresario, Andrew Ousley, presented nine pianists in search of nine nocturnes composed by one of their own, Ellis Ludwig-Leone.
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With the Modern Lovers in Bermuda
Iconic Album Released Fifty Years Ago
By: - Nov 04th, 2026Two years after they disbanded, fifty years ago, the eponymous Modern Lovers album was released. By then Jonathan Richman had formed another band named Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers which released an album simultaneously, but don’t be confused. The original or real Modern Lovers album is regarded as a classic of its era.
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The Marriage of Figaro
To Many, The Greatest Comic Opera Ever
By: - Nov 02nd, 2026Figaro, valet to the Count, and Susanna, maid to the Countess, are to be married, but the Count invokes the droit du seigneur, his right to have a carnal episode with the maid before the nuptials. Ploys to avoid the event lead to a number of humorous complications.
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Sarasota Opera's Hansel and Gretel
Season Opener is Family Friendly
By: - Nov 02nd, 2026Enchanting and whimsical, the Sarasota Opera’s Hansel and Gretel is a delightful experience, reminding us that even in our most hopeless of times, youthful innocence and optimism can light the way forward.
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Sonya Youncheva Returns to the Met
McVikar's Production is Grand Opera
By: - Nov 01st, 2026The Metropolitan Opera mounted the season premiere of Luigi Cherubini’s Medea. In the title role, Sonya Yoncheva returned in fine form. Her dark, rich tones suggested both the sorceress’s pain at betrayal and her dastardly plans for vengeance. Her notes are threaded with a silvery filament like the knives and swords she wields. One voice becomes two.
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Julia Bulloock at Jordan Hall
Boston Modern Opera Project Brings Us an Intoxicating Mix
By: - Oct 28th, 2026Julia Bullock is one of the foremost sopranos of our time. She will perform at Jordan Hall with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on November 6th.
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American Classics It Takes Two
30th Concert Season
By: - Oct 28th, 2026American Classics announces its 30th concert season, "It Takes Two," a series of performances dedicated to teams of songwriters, lyricists, and composers who brought their talents together to create enduring songs.
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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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