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The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association will present the 2023 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival honoring playwright and human rights activist Vaclav Havel. From June 2 to June 14, the Bohemian National Hall will feature award-winning performances from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and the US.

Today, acclaimed Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing, led by Donald Nally, releases its 30th album Titration, on Navona Records. Premiered at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana in August 2022, Titration is another creative collaboration between The Crossing and Shara Nova, founder of the chamber pop band My Brightest Diamond and one of the featured composers on the choir's most recent album, Carols After a Plague.

A workshop presentation featuring singers Iarla Ó Lionáird and Gelsey Bell with an ensemble of Princeton musicians, in selections from Olagón, a new opera work composed by Dan Trueman, with text by Paul Muldoon. This performance serves to conclude the MPP219 Opera Performance course, with music direction by Gabriel Crouch, and the production directed by Mark DeChiazza.

Steve Mackey didn't look far for the actress who would play his mother in the musical theater production, "Memoir," based on his mother's life. Turns out the nanny for his children was the best choice. Mackey brings his mother's story to the Walton Arts Center stage for its world premiere at 7 p.m. May 18 during the Artosphere Festival.

Princeton Faculty composer Steven Mackey presents a preview/workshop performance of Memoir, a new 75-minute music theater work for arx duo, Dover String Quartet, and Natalie Christa, directed by Mark DeChiazza. VIEW VIDEO TRAILER> Free, Unticketed.  The Dover Quartet also performs on the Princeton University Concerts series on April 7. More info here.

Three recent Hermitage Greenfield Prize (HGP) winners – Martyna Majok (2018), Helga Davis (2019), and Aleshea Harris (2021) return to Sarasota this spring to present their work and speak about their creative process.

What if you and one of your dearest friends, someone who has been in your inner circle for a decade, wanted to illustrate your relationship? You might sit for a portrait or share matching pieces of jewelry. As artists, you might create a painting together or as musicians, you might write a song. If you come from different cultures, you might look for a place where those paths intersect.

Beth Morrison. Photo: Michal Fattal One of the worlds foremost, most adventurous female producers of contemporary opera, and a tireless champion of diverse voices, opera-theatre producer Beth Morrison unequivocally embraces her seemingly limitless drive. As President and Creative Producer of Beth Morrison Projects, initiated in 2006, Morrison recently was named one of Musical Americas four Artists of the Year/Agents of Change. Through her pioneering annual winter PROTOTYPE Festival, in collabor...

January 20, 2021 Michael Andor Brodeur THE WASHINGTON POST – A strange package arrived on our doorstep last week. Strange because it didn’t contain masks, or disinfectant wipes, or even another jar of that chili-crisp paste we keep blowing through. It was a box of opera. The Beauty That Still Remains: Diaries in Song is the latest experiment by the New York-based On Site Opera, a company that stays true to its name, even as it eschews that most foundational of operatic conventions: the stag...