FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Ihnen, Director of External Communications Website: www.operabaltimore.org Opera Baltimore and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum present “Roots and Resonance: An Operatic Love Letter to Baltimore” on February…
The Choral Arts Society of Washington and Washington Performing Arts Present Annual Living The Dream…Singing the Dream Concert
A choral tribute to the inclusive vision of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Music Center at Strathmore on Sunday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE …
The Breadth and Depth that Schubert Finds for the Voice: Christian Gerhaher at Wigmore Hall
Imagine: twenty-seven short pieces by the same composer, curated for an entire evening’s entertainment. What are we thinking here? Sonatas by Scarlatti, waltzes by Chopin? Grieg’s Lyric Pieces or Bartók’s…
A Staged German Requiem in Paris: Insula’s unforgettable Brahms
Stagings of Bach Passions are, if not the norm, certainly not unknown; and Insula showed how effective known music with projection can be in Matt Collishaw’s Sky Burial, a film…
Fire, Paprika and Pepper: Spices Galore with Rattle, Kopatchinskaya and the LSO
Songs my mother taught me: the title of the fourth in a cycle of gypsy songs by Dvořák, but this title also stands as a convenient coat hanger for so…
Cycle de berceuses: Sabine Devieilhe and Mathieu Pordoy at Wigmore Hall
This was recital programming of the very highest level, the first half a cycle of lullabies; the second a celebration of the female creatrix in Her various forms. It all…
The Makropulos Case with Simon Rattle and the LSO
Simon Rattle’s twin traversal of the Janáček operas in concert in London and onstage in Berlin has now reached The Makropulos Case in the former, Claus Guth’s staging for the…
Opera Baltimore Opens Doors to First-Time Audiences with Opera Aperitif and Rare Performance of Lucrezia Borgia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Megan Ihnen, Director of External CommunicationsWebsite: www.operabaltimore.org Baltimore, MD — January 8, 2026 — At a time when many performing arts institutions are struggling to fill seats, Opera Baltimore is…
Barber’s Vanessa Comes to Boston
Samuel Barber’s first opera, Vanessa, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958 – when serialist abstraction and stark realism dominated the world of modern opera. Many critics immediately dismissed it…
The Power to Inspire: Dame Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall
Composers have always been inspired to write for others: this is one of the rich seams of inventiveness running through so much music, old and new. Over many decades Dame…