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Benedict Tent broadcasts begin with Saturday’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Staff report The Aspen Music Festival and School is producing a series of six livestream concerts this summer, as it returns to live in-person performances. The concert broadcasts, beginning Saturday, July 3, will be shown live from the Benedict Music Tent and viewable for free on the Festival’s “Virtual Stage” page at http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com . The Music Fest developed the platform last ...

7 best Houston in-person and virtual plays and performances for June Houston Grand Operas imaginative new production of Hansel and Gretel sets live performances amid original animation.  HGO Courtesy Photo For local theater-lovers who thought the day would never arrive, June brings the summer surprise of in-person, indoor shows. While most companies won’t make the big leap inside until fall, a few theaters are taking a vaccinated trial (mostly musical) run to bring audiences back inside ...

Hansel and Gretel Takes a Colorful Approach to a Bayou-Set Fairytale The take on Humperdinck’s opera, which is available online through June 27, combines live singing with stunning animated backgrounds. By Holly Beretto 5/28/2021 at 10:01am Virtually everyone knows of Hansel and Gretel, the two children who get lost in the woods, find a house made of candy, and wind up having to escape from a witch. It’s been told in countless versions through the ages, from the Brothers Grimmâ€...

Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter O...

Etienne Charles, pictured here at the 2019 Jazz Aspen June Experience, will return to the JAS Cafe this summer. It’s been a long time coming. Live music is returning this summer as the post-vaccine season of cultural rebirth in Aspen is starting to take shape. The three premiere live music venues and festival producers – Belly Up Aspen, the Aspen Music Festival and School and Jazz Aspen Snowmass – are all returning. Belly Up has been shuttered since March 2020 when the novel coronavirus s...

5:30 PM Shop Talk: Beyond the Scenes with Prop Artisans - The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts-An exploration of the eclectic world of theatre props with three veteran prop designers. click here 6:00 PM GUN HILL - A sleepy little town in the US - Zoe, a black English teacher, riskily attempts to convince her troubled white student Joey to abandon his disturbing plans of going on a shooting spree at their high school. Will she succeed? GUN HILL by award-winning Romanian-American p...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

Included in the upcoming 2021-2022 season is the long-awaited world premiere of Snowy Day and a RodeoHouston-inspired chamber opera. By Emma Schkloven 5/11/2021 at 6:00am Forget your tunes of ennui, Houston, cause the curtain’s rising on in-person opera at the Wortham Center once more. Late last week, the Houston Grand Opera announced its highly anticipated 2021-2022 season, and after seeing the schedule, we can officially say it was worth the wait. The new season, HGO’s first wi...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...