Virtuoso trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is musical director of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and as a composer most known for…
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My cultural round-up has usually centered on theater. This year theater finally did come back and hooray for that but…
As a decades-long Joni Mitchell fan, I have attempted to explain to others the difference between Joni and Joan Mitchell…
The world is full of everything from good dates to bad dates, from good paintings to bad paintings, or as…
Rossini’s Cinderella is LAOpera’s holiday bon bon for this year. There is enough cotton candy on stage to give a…
The Django Festival AllStars is currently back on tour in the US, and in Philadelphia on November 6 for a…
Much has been written about the divisive world we now live in. Which team are you on, Democrats or Republicans?…
In October, the Philadelphia Orchestra appeared in Verizon Hall for the first time in 18 months. Yannick Nezet-Seguin led the…
“Unfortunately, I have a lot in common with Eugene Onegin,” said Ethan Vincent, the 30-year-old Apprentice Artist who understudied the…
It has been a long dry fast for theater, music, and opera aficionados. OK, that was not the worst suffering…
Marcellina, the role mezzo soprano Apprentice Artist Lindsay Kate Brown is taking over for the last two performances of “Marriage…
In the last act of Benjamin Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” after all the lovers have been reunited, the Ass has…
Alexander Pushkin knew intimately the world of which he wrote in his novel-in-verse “Eugene Onegin.” He was raised by nannies…
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s new Dracula opera, “The Lord of Cries,” which premiered at Santa Fe Opera on July…