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A conversation with Southwest Florida Symphony Maestro Radu Paponiu and Outreach Ambassador Robert Van Winkle about the orchestra’s upcoming concert featuring world-renown violinist Gil Shaham performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G Minor. The Masterworks series concert, Saturday, Jan. 28, also includes the overture to Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. We’ll take a deeper dive into the music and the historical context behind each piece.

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Here are seven facts that made Mozart, one of the world's most influential composers ever, so unique.

Festival Opera's The Magic Flute will be playing at the Municipal Theatre in Napier from Tuesday 14th - 20th February 2023 - and we want to send you along!

The Pacific Opera Project aims to make the arts more affordable and entertaining. Their next show is “Superflute,” a retelling of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” with Nintendo characters.

Gil Shaham Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham has been hearing about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto in G Minor for years. “People have been saying, ‘You must learn it! It’s so beautiful,’” he says. “It was a project I always wanted to do.” And now that he’s learned the piece, “I just love it,” he says.

Victorian-born soprano Siobhan Stagg is in huge demand from opera companies and orchestras worldwide. But her career could just as easily never happened.

The company unveils three co-commissions new to the Bay Area — Mason Bates’ “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” Rhiannon Giddens’ “Omar” and Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence” — as well as beloved standards.

Liberty University’s School of Music invites audiences to enjoy modernized Mozart with “Figaro’s Wedding,” an adapted production of the famed composer’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” to be performed in the Tower Theater from Jan. 26-29. Dr. Wayne Kompelien, a...

The company unveils three co-commissions new to the Bay Area — Mason Bates’ “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” Rhiannon Giddens’ “Omar” and Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence” — as well as beloved standards.