Bard Music Festival Presents BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD In August
This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.
FAUST Comes to the Paris Opera This September
Faust comes to Paris Opera this September. Selling his soul to the devil for eternal youth is Faust’s – inevitably risky – gamble. By joining forces with the diabolical Mephistopheles, the elderly scholar recovers a youthfulness that allows him to win over the beautiful Marguerite, but at what cost?
Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE Comes to SummerScape
As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical grand opera in which religion, politics, and power collide.
21V to Present RECLAIMING RADICAL
The San Francisco Bay Area's 21V choral ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Martín Benvenuto, will present Reclaiming Radical on Friday April 5, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Old Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. at the Hillside Club in Berkeley.
Review: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC at Road Less Traveled Theater
It's not often that a horror story or the supernatural takes to the stage, so when a comedy turns dark, you know you're in for a night of the unknown. Ike Holter's play THE LIGHT FANTASTIC is full of surprises, twists and turns that kept the opening night audience engrossed in Road Less Traveled Productions latest production.
LOADBANG: LAND OF SILENCE Announced At Goethe-Institut Boston
Loadbang: Land of silence at Goethe-Institut Boston. Experience compositions for baritone voice, bass clarinet, trumpet, and trombone by Reiko Füting, Helmut Oehring, Eva-Maria Houben, Artur Kroschel, and Andy Kozar. Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7:30 PM.
Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Center Repertory Company
What did our critic think of EVERY BRILLIANT THING at Center Repertory Company? Individual thoughts, moments and actions help define the lead characters evolving and ever-growing list in this poignant and uplifting one man performance piece starring William Thomas Hodgson with direction by award-winning Jeffrey Lo (Vietgone, Chinglish, The Great Leap).