Her career spanned decades, included performances at the Metropolitan Opera and brought her effusive praise from critics and operaphiles. By Jonathan Kandell Benita Valente, an American light soprano ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

The Magic Flute may be the most difficult of Mozart's comic operas to present adequately. The plot is absurd and the complex hints at a parody of masonic ritual make it more difficult, but David ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Varanasi's riverfront will transform into a vibrant cultural stage for the Ganga Mahotsav 2025, from November 1-4. DD News ...

Caity Gyorgy (pronounced like George) is a JUNO Award Winning Canadian vocalist, composer, and lyricist who is known for singing bebop and swing music. Being called one of JazzFM91’s 8 Canadian Women ...

Sad news for the local music scene, as another venue that highlights local talent ... by Terry Hicks -- returns to the ...

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Grieg’s masterpiece of tension-building was supposed to evoke a cave full of trolls, gnomes and goblins. Grieg himself wasn’t a huge fan, though; he once said, “For the Hall of the Mountain King I ...

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its ...

What do Respighi, Rutter, Vivaldi, Bloch and La La Land pieces have in common? In addition to the obvious musicality and ...