The new production of Verdi’s “Traviata” that Jonathan Miller has staged for the Glimmerglass Opera is his second go at the work for this company alone.
At the Venetian Theater at Caramoor on Friday, a vocally athletic cast rose to the challenge of “Semiramide,” fluidly adorning the music with calligraphic embellishments.
To Jim James, the singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band My Morning Jacket, there’s a clear connection between much that George Harrison believed in and the work at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.
Once again the conductor Leon Botstein, a champion of neglected works, has leapt into the breach, presenting a production of “Les Huguenots,” which opened on Friday in the SummerScape festival at Bard College.
The International Mozarteum Foundation says fragmentary works scrawled at the back of a music book were probably composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself.
Lil Wayne was a model of reliability and efficiency: a master rapper in control of his art and an executive ensuring his business interests were protected.
Piotr Anderszewski played Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B flat after Edward Gardner and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra gave a taut account of Mozart’s “Zauberflöte” Overture.
An intense thunderstorm caused the stage to collapse at the Big Valley Jamboree Country Music Festival in Camrose, Alberta, killing one person, The Associated Press reported.
