Throughout the adult life of the great Russian composer Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, he fixated on one idea: his homosexuality, how to closet it and how to compensate for it. Hershey Felder’s one-man show Our Great Tchaikovsky, currently showing at the …Read more
The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sounds the human voice can make. Part of the 2018 Prototype Fes …Read more
Belgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága after its great success in the 2016 Festival. Titled after Sága, …Read more
Politics. Sex. Love. Secrets. Intrigue. Power. Betrayal. All elements you’d find in a good spy thriller are also to be found in the new opera Fellow Travelers, receiving its New York premiere at the 2018 Prototype Festival. With music, story and perf …Read more
Sarah Rothenberg’s exquisite A Proust Sonata: 7 Tableaux En Musique debuted January 10th at The French Institute’s Florence Gould Hall, produced by Da Camera of Houston Productions. It’s easily the most ravishing event I’ll see this year. If you are …Read more
The star of Frozen and Hair will headline the New Year’s show at Feinstein’s/54 Below. We caught up with her to talk about her wishes for 2018, putting together her setlist, and how she hits that note on “Let It Go” every night. https://www.youtube.c …Read more
Celebrated tenor Amine J. Hachem will make his Carnegie Hall debut with A Middle Eastern Christmas: From the Mediterranean to the Americas on December 13. We asked him about the music he loves, his favorite Christmas traditions and getting to sing at …Read more
Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe will headline Women of Notes, a celebration of female composers from Dolly Parton to Mary Rodgers, put together by The New York Pops. Kantor is best known for his work in the recent revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Next to …Read more
Tony nominee Denée Benton will join MasterVoices, Bryce Pinkham, Elizabeth Stanley and Kevin Chamberlin for a performance of George and Ira Gershwin’s Pulitzer winning musical Of Thee I Sing. We caught up with The Great Comet star to talk about her c …Read more
On October 27th, Matt Doyle will join guest star Ali Ewoldt to open the new season of The New York Pops. In 2017, Doyle has already delivered outstanding work as a swoon-worthy Anthony in Sweeney Todd and as the vicious Georgie, one of the “droogs” i …Read more
