Month: May 2021

Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur stages a new version of Jules Massenet’s opera Werther in the first week of June. This four-act lyric drama in five scenes, with a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, is adapted from the German novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a…

The Nightly Met Opera Streams beginning Monday, May 31st, highlight the collaboration between the Metropolitan Opera and WQXR – New York’s Classical Radio Station. For the next week, the Met presents some of the productions from its Live in HD series of transmissions which featured during the podcast series Aria Code, broadcast on WQXR. Puccini’s…

The Boston Pops Orchestra is well into its Spring Celebration series of streamed concerts on BSO NOW!. Four of these programs have been newly recorded, but the series also features two concerts, conducted by the legendary Arthur Fiedler, from the Orchestra’s archives – and one of these is the fabulous Pops Classic, Exquisite Ella –…

The latest program in the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in Concert series features Three Divas – sopranos Alyn Pérez and Nadine Sierra, and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard. It will be filmed in the gorgeous setting of France’s Opéra Royal du Chateau de Versailles. These three stars from the impressive list of artists who have performed at the…

San Francisco Ballet closes its 2021 Digital Season with Helgi Tomasson’s interpretation of one of the best loved ballets in the classical repertoire – Swan Lake. Swan Lake’s introduction to the world, however, was somewhat inauspicious. Tchaikovsky was commissioned to write what turned out to be a magnificent score in 1875, by the director of…

English National Ballet celebrates the return of live performances next week with a programme of five works by contemporary choreographers – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Yuri Possokhov, Stina Quagebeur and Arielle Smith. These ballets were all created for ENB’s Digital Season late last year, but this will be their first live performance. The programme…

There’s a lot of activity on the SFSymphony+ streaming platform at present. Demonstrating yet again the wealth of creativity caused by the cancellation of live performances – happily restored again as of this week – the San Francisco Symphony continues to celebrate the diversity of music-making in three very different online series – CURRENTS which…

Continuing its Met Stars Live in Concert series, the Metropolitan Opera features four luminaries of Wagnerian opera, streaming live from the grand Hessisches Staatsheater in Wiesbaden on Saturday, May 8th. Starring in this performance are sopranos Christine Goerke and Elza van den Heever, tenor Andreas Schager and baritone Michael Volle, accompanied by pianist Craig Terry.…

Fridays at Five sessions during the month of May are all dedicated to a celebration of the music of Miles Davis – American trumpeter, bandleader and composer, who is regarded as one of the most influential and acclaimed figures of 20th century music and the history of jazz. Miles from India is the title of…

The next production in San Francisco Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season is Romeo and Juliet – Helgi Tomasson’s interpretation for ballet of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy about the doomed young lovers of Verona. The story of Romeo and Juliet has been recreated in almost every theatrical form for hundreds of years. Passionate, dramatic and colorful, it has…