Tanglewood Learning Institute Announces 2024 Spotlight Series
by A.A. Cristi - May 9, 2024
Tanglewood has announced additional programs and updates to its 2024 season (June 20–August 31), which celebrate the legacy of Seiji Ozawa and reflect the BSO's commitment as a service organization to advancing the humanities and enriching the lives of Berkshire residents:
Bard Music Festival Presents BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD In August
by A.A. Cristi - May 1, 2024
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.
Interview: How to Make a Cad"BUTTERFLY's Pinkerton"Appealing, According to Jonathan Tetelman
by Richard Sasanow - Apr 26, 2024
It’s a big season at the Met for tenor Jonathan Tetelman—born in Chile, raised in New Jersey—and he’s taking every advantage of it. He’s come to town with a reputation as a Puccini specialist (not that there’s anything wrong with that). How does he feel about that?
“Well, I basically built my voice on Puccini repertoire. I’ve taken it as a gift because he’s a great writer for my voice.” His debut at the Met in March was in LA RONDINE but he’s looking forward to showing off more of his dramatic chops with Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, starting this week, because there’s more 'there' there.
FAUST Comes to the Paris Opera This September
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2024
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
by Stephi Wild - Apr 18, 2024
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.
Video: Pillow Queens Embrace Intoxicating Feelings on Punchy 'Heavy Pour' Track
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 16, 2024
Acclaimed Irish indie rock band Pillow Queens is diving into intoxicating feelings with punchy, cathartic track and official video 'Heavy Pour' out now ahead of their LP release on Friday, April 19. The band's triumphant third studio album Name Your Sorrow is due out April 19 and available for pre-order now. This June, Pillow Queens will perform live across the UK and will support Snow Patrol in Limerick, IR on July 12 ahead of their biggest show to date on July 13 at Dublin, Ireland's Iveagh Gardens. Watch the music video for the new song here!
Review: STRANGER SINGS, THE PARODY MUSICAL at The Black Box
by Steve Wilson - Apr 7, 2024
But on the upside, there is always Hawkins, Indiana, nothing strange ever happens there. Unless you are in the upside/down and Hawkins is inside The Black Box, for Padgett Productions' phenomenal Kansas City premiere of STRANGER SINGS, THE PARODY MUSICAL.
Paris Opera Faces 6 Million Euro Budget Cut
by Stephi Wild - Apr 5, 2024
The Paris Opera is taking a large budget cut this year, after the Ministry of Culture was ordered to find 204.3 million euros in savings before the summer Olympics.
Ken Page Will Perform at Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood
by Stephi Wild - Apr 2, 2024
Acclaimed film, television, and Broadway star Ken Page will bring his new show Right Here, Right Now to Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood for one show only on Wednesday, April 3, at 8:30pm, it was announced today by Chris Isaacson Presents and Catalina.
21V to Present RECLAIMING RADICAL
by Blair Ingenthron - Mar 24, 2024
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.
Olivier Award-Winner Katie Brayben and Andrew Rannells Will Lead TAMMY FAYE
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 22, 2024
Initial casting has been announced for the Broadway production of the acclaimed musical TAMMY FAYE. Two-time Olivier Award winner Katie Brayben will recreate her Olivier Award-winning performance as Tammy Faye Bakker, and Tony Award nominee Andrew Rannells will reprise his Olivier-nominated performance as Jim Bakker. TAMMY FAYE will begin preview performances on October 19th and will officially open on November 14th, 2024 at Broadway's Palace Theater.
Review: Met's Laffont Competition Unleashes New Artists on Grateful Audience
by Richard Sasanow - Mar 21, 2024
No matter how many “star” performances the Met manages to muster in the course of a season, there’s nothing quite as exciting as the Laffont Grand Finals Concert—formerly known as the Met’s National Auditions Finals—which took place this past Sunday afternoon for its 70th season, when we got to hear up-and-comers who might have knocked our socks off at the concert itself or could at some time in the future.
Review: 54 SINGS IN TROUSERS Brought a Rare Gem to 54 Below
by Rebecca Kaplan - Mar 16, 2024
The 54 Sings in Trousers concert at 54 Below on March 12th had the same sense of anticipation and delight I felt listening to the In Trousers record for the first time and hearing the story that comes before Finn's FALSETTOS. The bouncy score to In Trousers is a gem on its own, and the 54 Below cast did it justice.