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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...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneide...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Tenors Rufus Wainwright, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and others choose opera’s most passionate, golden voices. Credit...Angie Wang March 3, 2021 Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the passionate, ringing tenor voice. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your choices in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Rufus Wainwright, composer and songwriter My dad, Loudon, has never much liked opera. But when I was 13, the opera bug struck me ...

One of Australia's top musical directors and conductors, George Ellis, will replace Doug Hawkins as Lismore's 2021 Australia Day Ambassador at tomorrow's...

Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bachs Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bachs masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here. ** Delibes’s Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel ...

Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fier...

Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis Save Normal text size Advertisement No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethoven’s command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fier...

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents All the World’s a Stage. The LPO celebrates Brett Dean, their new Composer in Residence, with the UK premiere of The Players. The scene is Elsinore, setting of Dean’s opera Hamlet, with the solo role played by accordion player James Crabb. The concert begins with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and ends with Stravinsky’s mock-Baroque Pulcinella. View here.  6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Mark Steinberg, Marcy...