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BEN HEPPNER Good voices seem to take hold of us gently, producing vague feelings of warmth that go unnoticed until they've passed. Great voices, on the other hand, are best [...]

Perhaps it's a fortuitous consequence of the administrative changes at so many opera houses this season that the canon itself should be in a state of flux. Who among us [...]

AUSTRIA BREGENZ FESTIVAL July 20-August 21 Sales/Box Office P0B 311 A-6901 Breqenz Telephone: 43 5574 407 6 Fax: 43 5574 407 400 E-mail: ticket@breqenzerfestspiele.com Website: www.breqenzerfestspiele.com Last year's festival produced [...]

That thought might have crossed more than a few minds on Tuesday, June 10, when the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation finally announced the constituent groups that would occupy space at [...]

Those quick to proclaim the 'death' of classical music and/or opera, solely based on the faltering budgets of arts institutions in America and abroad, would do well to take a [...]

The article features opera singer Quinn Kelsey, a Verdi baritone and recipient of the Metropolitan Opera's (Met) Beverly Sills Award. Topics discussed include his performance in the title role of the Met's production of "Rigoletto," his characteristics which make his performances seem to be a Verdi baritone, and his rendition of "It Was a Lover and His Lass" from Gerald Finzi's "Let Us Garlands Bring," sung at his 2015 Wigmore Hall recital.

Mei, Rey, Nikiteanu, Kleiter; Strehl, Schasching; Orchestra La Scintilla of Zurich Opera, Harnoncourt. Production: Moretti. TDK DVWW-OPHNT, 187 mins., subtitled Aside from a few European efforts, this past Mozart year [...]

The European festival circuit can be an intimidating experience for the sojourning operagoer. Speaking the native tongue certainly helps, but in the summer of Mozart's 250th the lingua franca may […]

Natalie Dessay and Emmanuelle Haim [] 'DELIRIO' Cantatas by Handel: Delirio Amoroso, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo and Mi Palpita il Cor. With Beaugiraud (oboe), Gaillard (recorder), Sakai (cello), Le Concert [...]

The article focuses on historical performance of musical group Juilliard415. Topics include importance of Juilliard's Historical Performance program which represents the consummation of musical trends; revival of Baroque music in Juilliard's Historical Performance program; and focus to offer students the chance to work directly with a roster of visiting artists-in-residence that includes some of celebrities in Baroque and early music, such as Christie, Paul Agnew, and Richard Egarr.

The article offers information on Canadian-French director, François Girard. Topics include considered that his movie "The Song of Names" are presented to seven international film festivals over the course of two months; and reports that his musical and philosophical ideas across theater, opera and film shown ability to engender performances of remarkable specificity.

An interview with instrumentalist and composer Tyshawn Sorey in the U.S. is presented. He shares his artistic inception of the music "Cycles of My Being," and describes how he reconcile his process with the need to compose for performers. Sorey explains how he tailored his composition to Lawrence Brownlee. He also mentions his strategy of responding to poet Terarnce Hayes' works.

ARMIN JORDAN, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1932--Basel, September 20, 2006 The Swiss conductor, who notably served as music director of Geneva's Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for a dozen years during the [...]

RAMEAU: In Convertendo Motet: In Convertendo; Pieces de Clavecin. Daneman, Pitarch; Rivenq, Thompson; Les Arts Florissants, Christie. Documentary: The Real Rameau, Dir. Reiner E Moritz. Opus Arte OA0956 D, 96 [...]

The vaults have been opened. With the groundbreaking announcement in September that the Metropolitan Opera would join forces with satellite radio network Sirius--provider of 134 channels of commercial-free content, ranging [...]

Tansferring your massive music collection from disc to your computer's hard drive may have given you the space to turn that spare bedroom into a makeshift Renata Tebaldi shrine. But [...]

Take note technophobic operagoers! Now that you've conquered your irrational fear of the computer mouse, willingly taken off your lead-lined helmet when sitting in front of that twenty-inch screen and [...]

STRAVINSKY: Oedipus Rex Norman; Langridge, Terfel; Tanaka (dancer); Tokyo Opera Singers, Shinyu-Kai Chorus, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Ozawa. Production: Taymor. Bonus: Conversations with Julie Taymor. Philips DVD B0003883-09, 58 mins., subtitled [...]

Measha Brueggergosman certifies that it takes one hell of an opera to pry her away from the concert stage. The twenty-eight-year-old Canadian soprano has been transfixing audiences with a stream [...]

Like Civil War reenactments, Renaissance fairs and Star Trek conventions, the modern-day oddity of the Baroque music festival seems to provoke a certain tribal fanaticism. It's hard not to develop [...]

Father's Day has always been one of the thornier gift-centric holidays to tackle: what do you get for the man who exhibits the contentment of Wotan, basking in the glow [...]

Morris Robinson doesn't hesitate to affirm that his sartorial sensibilities are not entirely typical among today's jumble of up-and-coming young singers. 'I have on Timberland boots, Fubu jeans, an Enyce [...]

Sarah Coburn might leave an interviewer with the impression that she has an inferiority complex about her head. Maybe it's the way she suddenly spouts her hat size in mock [...]

Opera lovers are admittedly an analog bunch. But when an 'upgrade' comes in the form of a new ceramic record needle or replacing the polyurethane buggies that you keep old [...]

John Matz admits that his career path may seem a tad circuitous. The twenty-six-year-old tenor, who spent the 2003-04 season winning praise for his Pinkerton in Los Angeles Opera's Madama [...]

As New Zealand--born soprano Jayne Tankersley put it, 'the place to be' for aspiring early-music singers one bitterly cold afternoon last February was Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse, where Baroque-music patriarch [...]

"I am all about affairs, actually," admits Cheryl Barker, and she's right: rather sordid trysts and Fatal assignations have been compromising her schedule of late. Those unfamiliar with the Australian […]

The article profiles opera soprano singer Marina Rebeka. Topics discussed include her early life and career, her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Anna in the 2011 premiere of Michael Grandage's opera "Don Giovanni," and her return to the Metropolitan Opera for "Don Giovanni" in April 2017 where she will make her role debut as Elvira.

The article focuses on award-winning conductor William Christie, who is known to give Baroque music an authentic sound with a timeless sheen.