Henry Purcell News

The Opera Company of Middlebury has announcedthe merger of the pioneering teen performance program, the Youth Opera Company of Vermont (YOC), with the OCM Education and Outreach division. Learn more about what this means for the company here!

Get ready for an incredible season at Lincoln Center! Explore the US premieres and New York premieres that will be taking the stage this fall and winter. Find out what shows and events you won't want to miss.

The GRAMMY®-nominated early music ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston celebrates 20 Years of Magic, a 2023/24 season celebrating two decades of music-making, with six subscription programs - including a fully staged Handel opera - and two CD releases on the Acis label.

The world premiere of new play, Elegy for a Fallen Angel, is coming to Connecticut next month. Opening for two performances only at Madison Lyric Stage. I sat down with playwright Marc Deaton to learn more.

The Tallis Scholars (UK), countertenor Reginald Mobley, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra with baritone  Tyler Duncan, Dhrupad master Uday Bhawalkar (India), Profetti Della Quinta, Le Consort (France), Ensemble Caprice (Canada), fortepianist Mélisande McNabney (Canada), and rubab virtuoso Homayoun Sakhi (Afghanistan/USA) are just a  few of the many musical luminaries that are appearing in Early Music Vancouver’s (EMV) star-studded 54th season- Luminescence. 

As work ramps up on the trio of innovative productions comprising Opera North’s first sustainable season, the Company has revealed some of the transformations it is making in search of more environmentally responsible ways to bring its operas to the stage. 

After closing the curtains for nearly two years, Lewis Family Playhouse reopened in 2022 to multiple sold-out performances for our 15th season. The 2023-2024 line up is packed with live music, comedy, memorable musicals, classic awe-inspiring dance, magic, family favorites, and more!

TENET Vocal Artists has reveaed its 2023 Fall/Winter and 15th series, which celebrates music written, by, for, and about women.

The 2023 Cherry Orchard Festival, running from June - July 2023 across the nation, will present the North American tour of solo pianist Polina Osetinskaya performing some of the most enduring musical masterpieces in history featured in some of the world's greatest films.

Virtuoso pianist and human rights advocate Polina Osetinskaya will return to Toronto for her Canadian solo debut featuring music from some of the greatest films of all time.

The 2023 Cherry Orchard Festival will run from June - July 2023 across the nation, featuring the United States tours of solo pianist Polina Osetinskaya performing some of the most enduring musical masterpieces in history, a solo performance 'I AM HERE' starring renowned theater actor Anatoly Beliy, and an NYC screening of 'Mama, I'm Home'featuring a Q&A session with producer Alexander Rodnyansky.

New York City Ballet’s 2023 Spring Season will open on Tuesday, April 18 with an All Balanchine program consisting of George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No. 2, and Raymonda Variations.  Learn more about the full season here!

The Indian Queen comes to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen this week. Performances run 18-25 March 2023.

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) has announced the dates for this year's summer festival along with a  new name. The 2023 Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival (previously named Vancouver Bach Festival) will take place  July 27 to August 5 at various venues including SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Christ Church Cathedral, Pyatt Hall, The Orpheum Annex, West Vancouver United Church, and St. James Community Square. 

Tippet Rise Art Center, located on a 12,500-acre working ranch nestled at the foot of Montana's Beartooth Mountains, today announced full program details for its eighth concert season, taking place over five weeks from August 18 to September 17, 2023.

Based on Book IV of the Aeneid, the opera was composed in 1688 and is considered one of the great works of English Baroque. Unprecedented montage has scenic direction by William Pereira and musical direction by Luis Otavio Santos, who commands the Orchestra do Theatro Sao Pedro. The performances take place on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th of March.

The Dryden Ensemble presents “Pergolesi and Bach” on Saturday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Church Solebury, 6587 Upper York Road, Solebury, PA and on Sunday, March 26 at 3:00 p.m. at Seminary Chapel, located on the campus of the Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ.

Park Avenue Armory's 2023 season will mark the tenth year of its celebrated Recital Series, bringing chamber music programs by world-renowned artists to the restored Board of Officers Room.

The Molinari Quartet puts the spotlight on English music for its next concert on February 17th with the impressive Quartet no.2 by Benjamin Britten and Thomas Adès' second quartet entitled Four Quarters.

Lyrical season will have 11 titles, including the premiere of O Machete, by Mehmari. Throughout 2023, will be presented of Il Seraglio, by Mozart, Cinderella, by Viardot, The Cunning Little Vixen, by Janácek, Dido and Eneas, by Purcell, among others. The program also includes ballet shows, symphonic and chamber music concerts.