WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center’s first expansion in its nearly half-century history had just opened, and its new spaces were being put through their paces for the first time.
NEW YORK — It was Friday afternoon, five hours before curtain, and a stylized Japan was taking shape on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. A crew was untangling ropes of cherry blossoms to form the backdrop of Madama Butterfly’s house in Nagasaki.
NEW YORK — There has been a reprieve: After an outcry from artists, composers, listeners and staffers, WNYC-FM announced Monday that it had reversed its plans to cancel “New Sounds,” the influential, eclectic new-music program that has expanded the city’s tastes for 37 years.
NEW YORK — It is no secret that classical music faces strong headwinds, but one challenge has been reaching gale-force proportions in recent years: high ticket prices.
LENOX, Mass. — For more than 80 years, Tanglewood, the bucolic summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has made the Berkshires a vital destination for classical music.
NEW YORK — It was late one afternoon this spring, and Madison Square Garden’s 19,000 seats were empty as Billy Joel and Lang Lang began jamming onstage.
The longest strike in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 128-year history neared an end on Saturday, when its musicians voted to approve a new labor agreement that was brokered with the help of Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel. The mayor had called the players’ union and the orchestra’s management to his office on Friday to try to break the nearly seven-week stalemate.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — In an early test case of the limits of disciplinary action in the #MeToo era, an arbitrator has ruled that New York City Ballet overstepped when it fired two principal male dancers accused of sharing sexually explicit photos of female dancers, the company said Friday.
NEW YORK — Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, a rehearsal pianist was ready to launch into Wagner’s famous “Ride of the Valkyries.” But before the battalion of singers could unleash their war cries — “Hojotoho!” — the conductor, Philippe Jordan, paused to offer a brief elocution lesson.
The bright-voiced American soprano Lisette Oropesa — who is known for singing bel canto onstage and running marathons offstage — has been awarded the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, the prize’s administrators announced Monday.World6 Aug 2024
Joseph Flummerfelt, the pre-eminent American choral conductor of his generation and a collaborator with some of the nation’s most renowned orchestras and maestros, died Friday in Indianapolis. He was 82.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — New York City Ballet, which has been going through one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, announced Thursday that it had picked new artistic leaders for the first time in more than three decades, turning to a pair of respected former dancers to help right the ship.
NEW YORK — New York City Ballet, which has been going through one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, announced Thursday that it had picked new artistic leaders for the first time in more than three decades, turning to a pair of respected former dancers to help right the ship.
NEW YORK — New York City Ballet, which has been going through one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, announced Thursday that it had picked new artistic leaders for the first time in more than three decades, turning to a pair of respected former dancers to help right the ship.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — A harrowing new staging of Berg’s “Wozzeck.” The return of bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, after eight years, in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer.” And the company’s first regular Sunday matinees.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — It is a brief, charming moment — and subtle enough that some audience members may miss it. But it speaks loudly as a symbol: the distinctive clicks of Zulu, the African language, echoing from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.Entertainment6 Aug 2024
Film can set fashions (would trench coats have been as popular without Bogart?), send viewers shopping (see: action figures and trading cards) and popularize all sorts of music (the song “Ghostbusters” topped the charts).
Jean Guillou, a French organ master whose modern-sounding compositions, unusual transcriptions and idiosyncratic performances challenged centuries of tradition and were preserved on more than 100 recordings, died Saturday in Paris. He was 88.Entertainment5 Aug 2024
NEW YORK — The opening night of New York City Ballet’s winter season was hours away, and several dancers were trying to perfect their lines onstage at the David H. Koch Theater. As they danced, a work crew just outside the auditorium struggled with another kind of line.
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