Henry Purcell News

Many people find opera to be intimidating, inaccessible or just plain boring. However, in many cases, this is largely due to the language barrier.

Janos Csaba will conduct the Sinfonia Ottawa orchestra Tuesday in a concert that will raise funds for the Orkidstra program, which offers free music instruction to inner-city school-children. The concert will ...

Peninsula Music Festival's 'Baroque Night' was filled with music from the 17th and 18th centuries.

It was a night of firsts. The first time that Central City Opera featured participants in the company's Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program performing lead roles in a double bill of rarely heard ...

The Daily Telegraph reveals exclusive details of two major new BBC arts programmes In The Birth of British Music for BBC TWO, acclaimed conductor Charles Hazlewood tells the story of how Britishness was built ...

Back for its eighth season, the musical counterpart to the theatre fest covers a wide range of genres.

The Daily Telegraph reveals exclusive details of two major new BBC arts programmes In The Birth of British Music for BBC TWO, acclaimed conductor Charles Hazlewood tells the story of how Britishness was built ...

When Indianapolis Opera relocates next spring to a Greek Orthodox church building on Pennsylvania Street, the move will put the company less than half a mile from its current headquarters.

Melodies from across Europe filled the air inside maestro William Noll's house on Saturday night.

The Washington and Lee University Summer Scholars program, in conjunction with the vocal studio of Christine Schadeberg, presents "Purcell Meets Shakespeare: An Evening of Words and Music" on Tuesday, July 22 ...

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MUNCIE -- A free workshop performance of Those Killing Fears, a newly devised musical monodrama, will be presented at 7 p.m. June 29 at Muncie Civic Theatre, 216 E. Main St.

Drama, Action, Adventure, Thriller, War Jamie Foxx, Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas U.S. Navy pilots Ben Gannon, Kara Wade and Henry Purcell are part of a close-knit elite division of test pilots flying highly ...

Naxos 8.570149, 5.99 Henry Purcell was born just in time for the Restoration, and by the time he was a practising theatre composer, Shakespeare's open-air, male-only dramatics had long since been replaced by ...

MIRROR IMAGES? Amber Darragh and Craig Biesecker are at their best when they're dancing with each other.

Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Stephanie Berger Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Costas Image credit: Courtesy of Mark Morris Dance Group / Costas Courtesy of Mark Morris ...

A giant aquarium. Lithe bodies appearing and disappearing through secret passages.

About half that money is targeted for Northeastern Ohio universities and partners, including Kent State and University of Akron

Next week, the Celebrity Series of Boston brings back Mark Morris's dance setting of Henry Purcell's 17th-century English opera Dido and Aeneas .

A question gurgling near the surface of every opera production is how much the director will trust the music to tell the story.