SUNY Cortland’s Performing Arts Department, The Arts at Grace and the McNeil Development Company present the "Verdi Requiem," one of the great works for chorus and orchestra, on Friday, May 3 and ...

In an environment of little food, no medical care, disease, infestation, and fear for their lives, professional conductor Rafael Schachter and other Jews formed a chorus, memorized Giuseppe Verdi’s ...

Last week at Symphony Hall, Marc Bamuthi Joseph explained a flash of the spirit. He felt it when writing the libretto to “brea(d)th,” a brutally honest and searching tribute to George Floyd composed ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The performance of Verdi’s ...

If a requiem looms large among a composer's works, especially one written near the end of his or her life or in a morbid frame of mind, it inevitably becomes an unofficial, autobiographical epitaph.

Pappano has been Music Director of the Royal Opera for 16 glorious years out of the 50 since the granting of the Royal Charter to what was then the Covent Garden Opera Company. In a typically ...

Conductor Mink Luke will lead several soloists and about 60 instrumentalists and 200 volunteer singers in the Jan. 2-4 performances.

For a time, Chicago Symphony music director emeritus Riccardo Muti planned to end the 2024/25 downtown season with Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust,” not heard at Orchestra Hall since 2008.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The company’s opening week included performances of “Nabucco” and the Requiem. By Oussama Zahr This week, the Metropolitan Opera ...

Some sounds are viscer- ally satisfying no matter how many times you hear them. There's the sizzle of bacon, the hush of new snow — even Darth Va- der's stertorous breathing as he tells Luke Skywalker ...

Verdi's Requiem Mass, the product of a man who was publicly agnostic and privately atheist, isn't really a religious work, but it raises all the problems for which religion purports to have the ...