Music
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David and Jonathan
Baroque Opera with a Modern Twist at West Edge
By: - Aug 04th, 2025Charpentier's 1688 opera celebrates the close but star-crossed friendship of Biblical hero David with Jonathan, the son of Saul, Israel's first king. Saul's resistance to God's call to step down in favor of David results in a clash between Saul and David as well as Jonathan's conflict between love and duty. Without bending the text, the West Edge twist is that David and Jonathan's relationship is carnal.
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The Knights at Clark Art Institute
Two Free Concerts
By: - Aug 05th, 2025Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights return to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts for music lovers of all ages.
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Barrington"s Mr. Finn Cabaret
Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko
By: - Aug 08th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announces two dazzling evenings of Broadway talent at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, headlined by two of the Great White Way’s brightest stars: Andrea McArdle and Julie Benko.
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Wozzeck
A Fine Rendering by West Edge Opera of the Atonal Masterpiece
By: - Aug 10th, 2025Downtrodden Franz Wozzeck suffers abuse from those in higher social classes and is betrayed by his common-law wife who has an affair with a Drum Major. West Edge depicts the drama of the underclass in concert with the dissonance of Alban Berg's music.
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Berlin Philharmonic Opens Its Season
Kirill Petrenko Compels
By: - Aug 31st, 2025The Berlin Philharmonic launched its 2025–26 season with a program that set Schumann, Zimmermann, and Brahms in conversation across a century of musical upheaval. Under Kirill Petrenko’s direction, the evening unfolded less like a sequence of works than a drama in three acts.
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A Night with Janis Joplin
Sonoma Arts Live's Lively Jukebox Musical
By: - Sep 06th, 2025Janis Joplin was one of rock-and-roll's greatest icons. This musical tribute to her which has thrilled audiences across the country and around the world returns to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she earned her fame.
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Berio and Boulez at the Berlin Music Festiva;
Both Composers 100th Birthdays
By: - Sep 05th, 2025The Berlin Music Festival is honoring Luciano Berio on the occasion of his 100th birthday with eight concerts devoted to his work. His explorations of acoustic sound fused with electronics, his relentless push to test the technical and expressive limits of instruments, his inventive musical collage and dialogues between traditions are all being showcased. Pierre Boulez, whose centenary also falls this year, is likewise being celebrated.
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The Heart at La Jolla
By Kate Kerrigan, Music and Lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath
By: - Sep 08th, 2025The Heart is written by Kate Kerrigan, with music and lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath. It is based on the novel, Réparer les Vivants by Maylis de Kerangal. In the LA Jolla Playhouse production, over 24 hours, the heart of a person in the wrong place at the wrong time is connected to another person who was in the right place at the right time to answer the call.
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Cosi fan Tutte
Opera San Jose Charms with a Bright Version of the Mozart / da Ponte Favorite
By: - Sep 17th, 2025A small-scale grand opera, Cosi revolves around a bet that two sisters will be unfaithful to their fiances within 24 hours. To tempt the women, the men are required to dress like Albanians, with each man pursuing the other's beloved. Cosi is full of beautiful, if unmemorable music, but the comic chops of the singers are what makes the opera most appealing.
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White Raven, Black Dove in Boston
White Snakes Projects Presents
By: - Sep 17th, 2025Celebrated for creating diverse, timely and relevant opera, White Snake Projects (WSP) returns to Boston’s Strand Theatre, September 26-28, 2025, for the world premiere of White Raven, Black Dove, in a season dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through art. Composed by Jacinth Greywoode and Andrew Lynch, and written by librettist Cerise Lim Jacob, White Raven, Blake Dove is an original work of science fiction fantasy exploring two issues consuming America today – race and climate change.
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Dead Man Walking
San Francisco Opera Reprises 21st Century's Most Successful Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Joseph de Rocher faces execution for the grisly murders of young lovers. Though unrepentant, he requests and receives spiritual counseling from Sister Helen Prejean. The opera based on the true story scintillates on all dimensions.
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Victoria Bond at The Village Trip
Wonderful, Wild Music in New York
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Poets of Patchin Place features the première of settings of Barnes’ poetry by William Kentner Anderson. Also on the program: Victoria Bond: “Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming” from Ulysses by James Joyce. Nehemiah Luckett: “Oceans Always Lead to Some Great Good Place,” inspired by James Baldwin’s Another Country and commissioned by The Village Trip for Baldwin’s centennial,
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Kavalier and Clay Come to the Met
Composer Mason Bates Not Well Served
By: - Sep 26th, 2025If you listened carefully to a panel discussion at the Guggenheim Museum a few weeks before the opera by Mason Bates, The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, opened, you could hear the problems staging this work was going to face at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Pene Pate at the Park Avenue Armory
Tenor of the Century Performs
By: - Sep 28th, 2025Tenor Pene Pate gave his first concert in New York at the Park Aveneue Armory. He has a superb voice, impeccable, warm deilvery and a special generosity, charcteeristic of his Samoan heritage.
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Bates, Szymanowski, Lutoslawski at NY Phil
David Robertson Conducts
By: - Sep 29th, 2025David Robertson and the New York Philharmonic performed a program that displayed the orchestra in all its glory.
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La Traviata
Avery Boettcher's Performance Highlights Livermore Valley's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 30th, 2025One of the canon's most fabled operas, the story of a frail, doomed courtesan and her star-crossed love for a man from the upper class has resonated with audiences of all ilks for over 170 years. Verdi's sumptuous score with stunning arias and ensembles is matchless.
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MASS MoCA Records
Museum Launches Label
By: - Oct 01st, 2025The first band to sign with MASS MoCA Records is The Kasambwe Brothers, a multi-generational band who has been making music together for almost 40 years and are grounded in the rich, musical heritage of Malawi, Africa.
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Chorus Line Still Engaging
At Goodspeed
By: - Oct 02nd, 2025Attention to detail helps the audience immediately form attachments with the cast. Even with the first cuts, you are disappointed that a favorite or two did not make it. By the end of the show, you are upset when a favorite doesn’t make the final cut.
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Park Avenue Armory Hosts 11,000 Strings
Composer G.F. Haas Imagines Space
By: - Oct 05th, 2025Park Avenue Armory is hosting 11,000 Strings, a trsnsportting soundscaoe creaated by composer G. F. Haas. The work is a play on sounds created by the space between two notes.
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Jeremy Denk at the Park Avenue Armory
Six Partita Characters in Search of Interpretation
By: - Oct 09th, 2025Jeremy Denk performs the six Bach partitas for keyboard in the Officer’s Board Room of the Park Avenue Armory. We all come back to Bach. Jeremy Denk never left him. And Denk's insights have expanded over the years. The joy, the sense of humor and the play have always been there. Denk makes Bach clear and present.
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Saariaho's Passion in New York
Mannes Opera Presents La Passion de Simone
By: - Oct 14th, 2025Mannes, the most interesting and daring music school in New York, presented Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone at the Nagelberg Theater, just steps from its usual home in the Tishman Auditorium. At the Tishman, works were often presented catwalk-style, the action taking place on a narrow strip in front of the orchestra. At the Nagelberg, director Emma Griffin finally had space to mount the first fully staged chamber version of Saariaho’s oratorio.
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Samson et Dalila
West Bay Opera's Fine Production
By: - Oct 14th, 2025The tale from the Bible is brought to the opera stage. The deceitful temptress Dalila seeks not love but destruction and revenge. Though she succeeds, Samson will have the last word.
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Jazz in the Berkshires
Tanglewood’s Linde Center for Music and Learning
By: - Oct 24th, 2025Our friends at the Tanglewood Learning Institute are committed to presenting jazz year-round, and we’re delighted to remind our followers of three upcoming performances: Ulysses Owens, Jr., Ted Rosenthal, and Stella Cole.
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Parsifal
San Francisco Opera's Stellar Production
By: - Oct 30th, 2025Wagner's final opera boasts some of his most organic music and lyrics in a tale of redemption. The piece demands enormous resources of every kind, and San Francisco Opera has produced a matchless experience that excels in every way.
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Ragtime at Lincoln Center
An All Time Favorite
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025This musical, even more so than when it opened in 1998, forces us to confront some truths that we would prefer to ignore. It points out that America has not always lived up to its ideals and, in fact, has at times rejected them.
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