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At Long Beach Opera: A Delicious New Opera Experience

COSTA MESA, CA – Over the decades, every Long Beach Opera regime has managed to spin new, often wild variations on what opera is and can be. It’s been that way with this congenitally radical company since the early 1980s as artistic … »
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Contests & Awards
Concert Artist Guild Chooses Competition Winners

The Concert Artists Guild (CAG) has selected two soloists and three ensembles as grand prize winners of the 2023 Victor Elmaleh Competition. All will receive management in North and South America and Europe by CAG and Young Classical Artists … »
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Industry News
Detroit Symphony Is Luring Audiences Back

The road back from the pandemic has been a challenging one for American orchestras. The New York Times reported this week that while attendance has begun to rebound, it still is no higher than 70 percent of capacity. The Detroit Symphony has been … »
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People in the News
Dudamel Resigns from Paris Opera

Gustavo Dudamel, just on the heels of conducting three sold-out Mahler Ninth Symphony performances at the New York Philharmonic, has resigned as music director of the Paris Opera, four years ahead of schedule. His decision takes effect in August, … »
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Lucerne Fest Names New Exec/Artistic Director

Sebastian Nordmann, director of the Konzerthaus and Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, is to be the next executive and artistic director of the Lucerne Festival, succeeding Michael Haefliger, who last fall said he would step down after 26 years at the … »
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Reviews
Bodies on the Line: Social Injustice of a Different Era

With its opening volley of concussive orchestral thuds and clanking percussion, Bodies on the Line: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike delivers the assaultive sound and feel of a 1930s automobile assembly line. In doing so, this ambitious, hour-long … »
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Industry News
Most Valuable Non-players: Orchestra Librarians

In a windowless room one floor beneath the Orchestra Hall stage, three people are busy at tasks essential to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Absent the efforts of the CSO’s three music librarians—Carole Keller, Mark Swanson, and … »
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People in the News
New Music Directors in Regional Os

After a two-year search that attracted almost 100 applicants, the Elgin (IL) Symphony Orchestra (ESO) has tapped Chad Goodman [pictured] as its fifth music director. Most recently a conducting fellow at the New World Symphony, Goodman has been … »
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Tina Turner, the One and Only, Dies

NEW YORK (AP)—Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ’70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle … »
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At ROH: Wozzeck Is a Horror Show Extraordinaire

LONDON—Perhaps the bleakest opera of them all, certainly the most harrowing, Alban Berg’s taut, 95-minute Wozzeck is the study of one man’s decline into a terrifying inner darkness. Episodes of degradation and humiliation … »
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