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Houston Grand Opera presents Jeanine De Bique: In Concert on May 14. Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique will join the HGO Orchestra, conducted by HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers, on the stage of the Brown Theater for an evening of works by Handel and Mozart. This marks De Biques second appearance this season with HGO, as she also stars as Maria in HGOs live, socially distanced singalong My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music. Described as a "revelation" and "breatht...

Live music will return to Aspen this summer. After a quiet 2020 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and the historic cancellation of last summer’s in-person season, the Aspen Music Festival and School on Thursday announced a 52-day, 150-event lineup for July and August. With vaccines continuing to roll out, virus cases declining and public health restrictions loosening, the Aspen institution’s slate of summer concerts will return for its 72nd anniversary season. “We’re very excited,” ...

Love, jealousy and magic will be on stage during Palm Beach Opera’s first opera festival. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company moved its 2021 season from the Kravis Center to the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach to better allow for social distancing.  The company will perform Giacomo Puccinis "La Boheme" on Friday and Wednesday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts "The Magic Flute" on Sunday and Feb. 26, and Ruggero Leoncavallos "Pagliacci" on ...

Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and youve worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where youll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers. But now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. The rewards are still th...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorge...

Houston Grand Opera’s Giving Voice concert last January was a triumphant celebration of Black voices in opera. Now Houstonians can give a standing ovation—albeit from their living rooms—for its sequel, which is available to stream through February 21. This year’s concert features several of the most renowned African American opera singers in the country, including tenor Larry Brownlee and soprano Nicole Heaston as co-hosts and performers. Joining them are baritone Donnie...

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here. 2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jea...

Classical music 2020: Blockbuster dreams, dashed hopes Chris Gray, Correspondent FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 The digital world premiere of Apollo Chamber Players "In the Shadow of the MountainCourtesy Apollo Chamber PlayersShow MoreShow Less 2of3 One of the sites along the Buffalo Bayou where music from ROCO can be heard.Courtesy ROCOShow MoreShow Less 3of3 A small, masked and socially distanced audience watches the Houston Symphony perform at Jones Hall on Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in Houston.God...

According to an HGO press release: "A search committee will be organized to pursue the recruitment of a General Director, a single leader of the Company. Patrick Summers will remain with HGO as Artistic and Music Director, ultimately reporting to the General Director." Like all performing arts companies in Houston, HGO has been suffered significant financial loss with its inability to present live performances to full houses. It has been offering HGO Digital programs to keep a connection to its...

The Making of the Snowy Day The new documentary showcases the heart and soul of Ezra Jack Keats’s classic story as well as the challenge of bringing it to the operatic stage. By Rebekah Kibodeaux 12/9/2020 at 3:48pm Though snow days in Houston are few and far between, the magic of a front yard or a beloved park blanketed in white frost is not lost on us in the least. Memories of past snowfalls sweep through our minds with every temperature drop, and as we activate our heaters and open our...