Margaret Lattimore News

The Bach Festival Society will present its 78th Annual Bach Festival, today, February 15-March 3, 2013. The Society continues its commitment to presenting and producing the finest in classical and choral music while celebrating the legacy of its namesake, J.S. Bach.

Over three days of preliminary auditions on February 25-27, 2013, approximately 90 of the best young American and Canadian opera singers will compete to reach the final round of the 42nd annual George London Foundation Awards Competition.

The Bach Festival Society will present its 78th Annual Bach Festival, February 15-March 3, 2013. The Society continues its commitment to presenting and producing the finest in classical and choral music while celebrating the legacy of its namesake, J.S. Bach.

Dark Sisters is a suspenseful, emotional, and lyrical depiction of one woman's struggle with life and faith and the universal dilemma of whether to stay or leave. The opera opens a window into the lives of Eliza and her sister wives, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous sect based in the southwestern United States. Creators Muhly and Karam have drawn inspiration from the crush of media attention surrounding two of the many raids on FLDS compounds (the 2008 raid at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, TX and the 1953 raid at Short Creek, AZ), as well as from the stories of the more than 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group present DARK SISTERS.

Gotham Chamber Opera and Music-Theatre Group present DARK SISTERS.

Tickets are now on sale for the World Premiere production of DARK SISTERS, composed by Nico Muhly with libretto by Stephen Karam, conducted by Neal Goren, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and co-commissioned and co-produced by Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. DARK SISTERS will premiere from November 9-19,2011 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $30-125 and are available at www.ticketcentral.com or by phone at 212-279-4200.

Gotham Chamber Opera will celebrate its 10th anniversary by looking both to the future and to the past.

Music for Life International Inc. and American Pakistan Foundation present Beethoven for the Indus Valley, a benefit concert of Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony, organized and led by Singapore-born Indian conductor George Mathew.

Music for Life International Inc. and American Pakistan Foundation present Beethoven for the Indus Valley, a benefit concert of Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony, organized and led by Singapore-born Indian conductor George Mathew.

A March 14th concert at Weill Recital Hall will feature songs by Ricky Ian Gordon and Jake Heggie