OPERA America has announced the seven composers selected as recipients of the 2024 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program, made possible with the generosity of the Virginia ...

Conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in performing 'What Keeps Me Awake,' by the DSO's composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on ...

Carrie Hennessey grew up in the Midwest, where choral singing was a cultural staple. The youngest of eight children with a mom who taught piano, Hennessey was barely out of her teens when she burst ...

Shragg, assistant conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, says her passion for conducting started in middle school.

Women in the industry are speaking out about what they feel are cancellations motivated by their appearance rather than sound, even as there is a belief that pregnancy and childbirth have positive ...

When Emmy-nominated composer Levi Taylor saw Terence Blanchard's opera Champion (2013), it awakened something in him. "I was like, 'wow, wait, there's somebody who looks like me who's writing diverse ...

“The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)” subverts expectations of the genre by making fun of classical composers typically featured in these concerts. The show, written by librettist Jeremy Denk ...

Months before Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere of “Intelligence" on Oct. 20, a rehearsal is underway deep in the fourth-floor maze of the Wortham Theater Center. Director and choreographer Jawole ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to ...

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