Month: May 2013

RIOULT Dance NY takes to the stage of New York’s Joyce Theater next week, and included in the programme is  a world premiere performance of Pascal Rioult’s Iphigenia.  Inspired by the Greek heroine of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis, this work was created in collaboration with composer, Michael Torke, whose specially commissioned score will be performed…

The Mariinsky Theatre’s Stars of the White Nights Festival opened last evening – with performances of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Dargomyzhsky’s opera, Rusalka. This celebration of the finest in opera and ballet productions, great symphonic works, masterpieces of chamber music and premieres, takes place in the city of St Petersburg each summer, from May to…

New York’s Lincoln Center will swing to the sound of Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich, as Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic present the first program in Gilbert’s Playlist at the end of May.  A showcase for the themes and ideas synonymous with Gilbert’s tenure as Music Director, this four-week…

The BBC has announced details of its 2013 Proms season, and – as ever – there’s a wealth of wonderful concerts to enjoy.  The 119th season of what is undoubtedly the greatest classical music festival in the world opens at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 12th July, with an impressive line-up of some of the…

“Jewish composers and lyricists created the Broadway musical.  Along with a handful of other talents like George M Cohan and Cole Porter, they fashioned a new, quintessentially American art form.”  So says Barbara Brilliant, Creator and Executive Producer of Broadway Musicals:  A Jewish Legacy, a documentary which was screened by the PBS television network in…

For the first time in five years, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande returns to the United Kingdom.  This three-concert tour, which will take in Birmingham, Manchester and London, marks the first occasion on which Neeme Järvi will lead the Orchestra in Britain since taking up the role of Artistic and Music Director of the Suisse…

Choreographer Jerome Robbins is next to take the spotlight in New York City Ballet’s American Music Festival. Featuring 25 ballets and the music of 17 American composers, this star-spangled celebration marks the 25th anniversary of the 1998 American Music Festival, during which NYCB presented more than 20 new works, all set to the music of…