Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The opera is based on Alan Paton's literary classic CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, ...
New Orleanians Givonna Joseph and Patrick Quigley were guests of honor Wednesday at a small gathering on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The wine flowed. The caviar was as salty as ever. And singer ...
When it comes to the holidays in the opera world there are few standards as beloved as Gian Carlo Menotti’s AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS. The first opera written expressly for television and first ...
Once banned from opera houses during the Jim Crow era, rarely-seen works by American composers of color are finally gracing U.S. stages, thanks to two New Orleans-based mezzo-sopranos. In ...
NAPLES, Italy (AP) — At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty ...
Come to Lost in Thought as a gentle meditation, an exercise in communal activity, or come just for four hours of peace. You can talk about meaningful silences or the Japanese concept of “Ma” all you ...
Lyric Opera’s Don Giovanni almost manhandles the giant Municipal Auditorium Municipal Auditorium is a beautiful structure built in 1926. Since the ’40s it was used as an opera venue among other things ...
The opera “Andromeda” being performed in Lithuania as a part of the 700th anniversary of the country’s capital city of Vilnius. Andromeda is an historical Baroque-style opera written in the 1600s by a ...
Gabriel Preisser had an idea, the kind of idea about which cartoon characters would say, “That’s so crazy it just might work.” What if a beloved and sacred musical tradition for many could be expanded ...