#3866: Time and/or Site-Specific Music
Hear new vocal works, specific to a place, or even a time, on this New Sounds. Listen to a piece built around layers of New York-based Lesley Flanigan’s voice. Then there’s a work by violinist,...
View ArticleRossini's 'Cinderella' from Lyric Opera of Chicago
Tune in Saturday at 1 pm to hear leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and acclaimed tenor Lawrence Brownlee star in Rossini's Cinderella from the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The opera hews close to the...
View ArticleHow Deborah Rutter Manages: A Conversation with the Kennedy Center President
Conversations with able arts administrators who speak with confidence and candor are important because they reveal much about essential decision-making and the directions that our culture might go....
View ArticleBugs Bunny Inspired A Generation of Opera Stars
It turns out Bugs Bunny inspired a generation of opera-singers with his Wagner-inspired “Kill the Wabbit” cartoon.At least, that's what members of the Washington National Opera cast of Wagner's Ring...
View Article7 Series in NYC Presenting World-Class Music for Free
We've listed nearby summer festivals, as well as the top opera destinations in North America and Europe. But if you can't get out of the city before Labor Day, there's good news: there's a plethora of...
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Cavalli's 'Veremonda' from the Spoletto Festival
This week on World of Opera, Lisa Simeone hosts a presentaion of Franceso Cavelli's 16th-century masterpiece Veremonda, l'amazzone di aragona, from Charlston's Spoleto Festival USA. Born in 1602,...
View ArticleYannick Nézet-Séguin Named Met's Next Music Director
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the precocious music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, has been selected to succeed James Levine as the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera, the company announced...
View Article#3869: The Goat as Musical Hero
For this New Sounds, listen to a hootenanny of a program, yep – it’s time to celebrate the goat as a musical hero. Listen to pieces about goats, and works featuring instruments which were inventively...
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Review: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' Crashes into the NY Phil Biennial
Remember those Timex commercials where a wrist watch was put through all manner of abuse, the kicker being, "keeps on ticking"?That's what the Oscar Wilde classic play The Importance of Being Earnest...
View ArticleA Wish List for Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Metropolitan Opera
The announcement that Yannick Nézet-Séguin would replace James Levine as music director of the Metropolitan Opera was no surprise. The timing was rather quick in that Levine announced on April 14 that...
View ArticleJune 4: Architect Brad Cloepfil & Artist Vanessa Renwick At PDX Art Museum,...
This week, State of Wonder's all about the journey: we travel the world with starchitect Brad Cloepfil, meditate on environmental disaster with installation artist Vanessa Renwick, tromp through the...
View ArticleWhat's an Opera?
This week, Naomi Lewin introduces the type of musical theater known as opera, in which all words are sung. Opera singers do not use microphones — their voices are trained, and can fill a whole theater...
View ArticleBerg's 'Wozzeck' from Lyric Opera
Saturday at 1 pm, tune in to hear Alban Berg's gripping opera, Wozzeck, presented by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The new David McVicar production stars Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny in the...
View ArticleIn Dresden Cultural Riches Abound Throughout This 'Florence on the Elbe'
DRESDEN, Germany — When the excellent tenor Piotr Beczala joined me in 2015 for a conversation at New York University's Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò as part of a series I lead there about Italian...
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Placido Domingo Stars in Verdi's 'Il Due Foscari'
This week on World of Opera, Placido Domingo stars in Verdi's Il Due Foscari at the Grand Liceu Theater in Barcelona. Based on the life of a real 15th-century Venetian doge, Francesco Foscari, and his...
View ArticleClassical Clicks: Sometimes You Need an #OperaBoost
Here, at the WQXR offices, we read about, watch and listen to a lot of classical music. We created The Whole Note as a place to share content that has captivated us from around the web. We hope they...
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New rendition of classic opera ‘Porgy and Bess’ offers a ‘greater truth’
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The annual Spoleto music festival in Charleston, South Carolina, will wrap up this weekend. One of its highlights, the staging of a hometown classic, had...
View ArticleRenée Fleming and Thomas Hampson Star in 'The Merry Widow'
Tune in Saturday at 1 pm to hear Renée Fleming star in Susan Stroman's production of Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow. Joining her are baritone Thomas Hampson, as her former flame Count Danilo, and Heidi...
View ArticleThe Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi is one of the greatest opera composers who ever lived, however he was denied entrance to conservatory when he was a teenager. This didn't stop him from writing music and also becoming...
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How to Make Opera Hot and Cool? LoftOpera Has the Recipe
For many years, The Village Voice, New York’s most influential weekly alternative newspaper, produced excellent arts coverage of all types. In Leighton Kerner it had an expert on opera and classical...
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