Stephen Sondheim’s 'Sweeney Todd' from Glimmerglass
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, is our opening broadcast from the 2016 Glimmerglass Festival. Greer Grimsley stars in the title role, with his real-life wife Luretta...
View ArticleThis Folk Opera Predicted the Biggest Themes of the 2016 Election
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Ten years before there was Donald Trump declaring he'll build walls, Vermont-based folk singer Anaïs Mitchell was writing "Why We Build the...
View ArticleKeeping Up With Conductor Gianandrea Noseda
TURIN, Italy—Whenever I travel for work I make a point of checking what is on in the opera houses and the concert halls of the places I will be visiting. Lately, it seems that wherever I go the...
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Get to Know The First Woman Who Ever Ran for President
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Long before Hillary Clinton, Shirley Chisholm or the 12 other women who have run for president of the United States, there was Victoria...
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Met Cancels Performances After Someone Sprinkles Suspicious Powder on Orchestra
A performance of Guillaume Tell at the Metropolitan Opera was interrupted today when an unidentified person sprinkled some sort of powder into the orchestra pit. The NYPD is investigating the incident....
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What Can Happen When an Opera Performance is Cancelled
By now you have to know, if you are a reader of The New York Times, New York Post or social media, that this past Saturday's matinee of Guillaume Tell at the Metropolitan Opera was cancelled when an...
View ArticleReview: Met's Revival of Janáček's 'Jenůfa' Highlights Karita Mattila
There is an old saying in Hollywood that there are three stages in an actress's career — beautiful babe, corporate lawyer and Miss Daisy. The saying, while perhaps unfair, has parallels in opera. With...
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The Glorious Diversity of African-American Music
WASHINGTON, DC—The National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened on Sept. 24 in a ceremony led by President Obama, is a splendid new jewel in the crown of Smithsonian museums....
View ArticleGioachino Rossini’s 'The Thieving Magpie' from Glimmerglass
Tune in on Saturday, Nov 5 at 1 pm to hear Gioachino Rossini’s "The Thieving Magpie," from the 2016 Glimmerglass Festival. Rachele Gilmore stars as the opera’s central character, Ninetta. Michele...
View ArticleSneak Peek
Q2 Music is thrilled to offer an advance listen to Helga, a new podcast that features conversations with diverse, uncompromising and socially conscious artists across the creative and performing arts...
View ArticleThe Art of Listening
A number of years ago I created a seminar called “The Art of Listening” for the Smithsonian Institution. I have taught versions of this course in music classes and have been hired by corporations and...
View ArticleRobert Ward’s 'The Crucible' from Glimmerglass
Join us Saturday at 1 pm on WQXR for Robert Ward’s The Crucible, based on the play by Arthur Miller, from the 2016 Glimmerglass Festival. Brian Mulligan stars as John Proctor, with Jamie Barton as his...
View ArticlePeter Sellars
From the home of the Peabody Award-winning Meet the Composer, Q2 Music is proud today to launch the first season of a 10-part podcast, Helga. Hosted by internationally acclaimed singer Helga Davis,...
View ArticleGig Alert: Renée Fleming at Alice Tully Hall
Gig Alert: Renée Fleming @ Alice Tully Hall, 8PM, $80Soprano Renée Fleming is one of the brightest stars in the opera world. Composer Kevin Puts won a Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night, about...
View ArticleReview: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met
"That's our girl!" said a Kathleen Battle admirer when her grand return to the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday was 30 minutes late and showed no sign of starting. You wondered if it was happening at...
View ArticleShara Nova
After moving to Detroit from New York and separating from her husband, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden decided to change her last name to Nova. The frontwoman for the indie-rock band, singer and...
View Article#3920: "Heresy" by Roger Doyle
The story of hermetic philosopher, martyr for science, spy, playwright, and 16th Century Dominican friar, Giordano Bruno, is the subject of the new opera by Irish composer Roger Doyle called Heresy,...
View ArticleWhy It's More Difficult Than Ever to Become an Opera Singer
Two memorable performances and a conversation in recent days set my mind to thinking about the many things opera singers must now do to launch, grow and sustain their careers apart from knowing their...
View ArticleCharlie Parker's Yardbird from the Apollo
Tune in Saturday at 1pm to hear Charlie Parker’s Yardbird recorded live at Harlem’s world famous Apollo Theater. Daniel Schnyder wrote the score to a libretto by Bridgette A. Wimberly. Superstar tenor...
View ArticleHenry Threadgill
Henry Threadgill wants to know how to build the house. Whether it's Moby Dick or jazz composition, the 72-year-old jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist has spent his life figuring out what goes into...
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