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From the Paris Opera Enlarge F. Ferville/ Opera national de Paris Soprano Mireille Delunsch plays the tormented but triumphant sister in the title role of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride .

The Joffrey Midwest Summer Intensive dance workshop celebrated its 13th resident season in Flint on Saturday with a matinee and an evening showcase performance.

In David Pountney's staging, brutality threatens to become trivialized, but the grandeur of his conception makes the Armory a scenic landscape of the deadly sins.

Mansouri introduced simultaneous English translation of the libretto on a horizontal video screen above the proscenium, a system popularly known as supertitles.

Soprano Renee Fleming who spoke to The St. Petersburg Times during a visit to perform in the city earlier this week.

The cream-colored paint is chipped, the ivory keys yellowed with age. But don't be fooled by appearances.

Former Mira Costa High graduate Francisco Martinez works with a troupe of dancers at the Pasadena Dance Theatre as they prepare for an upcoming performance at LMU.

Oscar Wilde's "Salome" has never had an easy time of it. Its first London production in 1892 was abandoned when England's Lord Chamberlain banned it.

Deborah Voigt has shed more than 100 pounds since her gastric bypass surgery © David Sandison Four years ago, Deborah Voigt hit the headlines by not singing in Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden.

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Posted today at 10:32 am by Laura Onstot Consecutive victories at Safeco - against the Red Sox no less - is great news for Edward McMichael, he of the plodding tuba melodies that serenade you into the the ...

Get an earful: Five options for live music Sheryl Crow, Wednesday, Columbia Nine-time Grammy Award winner appears with opening acts Ray Lamontagne and Ingrid Michaelson.

FOREST HILLS' Heidi Strauss just got back from performing in the Czech Republic.

After hearing one of his military bands play an arrangement of music from Richard Strauss' opera Elektra, England's George V reportedly said, 'His majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again.'

Even now, 99 years after the premiere of Elektra, it is bound to strike some listeners as a little scary. Poor George is just lucky he never heard the singing that goes with it, or confronted its bloody plot. But, as Washington National Opera's production reaffirms, Elektra remains a stunner in the best sense of the word, capable of delivering a mighty musical and theatrical punch.

For the final concerts of its 25th anniversary season, Chamber Music Hawaii chose a trio for its Tresemble group: a Brahms Serenade, a Mozart Flute Quartet, K. 285, and a surprise - the Hawaiian premiere of ...

EMI continues to reissue classic opera performances from its vast catalog. In the latest batch are Riccardo Muti's 1980 recording of Bellini's "I Puritani" and Wolfgang Sawallisch's 1990 recording of Strauss' ... via CourierPostOnline

“For me, the stars are the chorus and the symphony. That shouldn't be forgotten. Remember, they're here all the time and everyone else, we rent.”

There is an almost unfathomable sense of history surrounding the Cincinnati May Festival, the nation's longest continuous choral festival. via Cincinnati CityBeat

Sprinkled through Marc-Andre Hamelin's piano recital tonight in Gates Concert Hall are unexpected contributions from three pianist-composers: Alexis Weissenberg, Leopold Godowsky - and Hamelin. via Rocky Mountain News

Family rivalries are at the heart of 'Elektra,' both the Sophocles drama and the Richard Strauss/Hugo von Hofmannsthal opera. But a new wrinkle in the familiar tale of revenge and matricide was introduced in the revival of the Washington National Opera's 1997 production that returned to the Kennedy Center stage Saturday night.

This 'Elektra,' as performed by Susan Bullock, was quite possibly motivated not only by rage at her mother for killing her father, but also by sibling rivalry with her sister, Chrysothemis, since Christine Goerke, who sang that role, had a much larger voice than Bullock did. Read more

The final Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets concert of the season features the concert version of composer Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular piece Die Fledermaus. via Huliq.com