
Also on stage is Toshio Hosokawa’s The Raven at the Miller Theater, paired with a tour of the theater itself led by a performer. Tenor Lawrence Brownlee makes his 18th debut in a Rossini role as Rodrigo in Otello (the better-known version is Verdi’s), with Khanyiso Gwenxane making his American debut in the title role.
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Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, artistic advisor at Opera Philadelphia, will perform in a Festival O22 production of 'Otello.'Īlways one of the most forward-looking series to be found at a major opera house, Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O22 only stages one work by a standard composer - a story told more famously by a different composer, with the best-known cast member not in the title role. In addition to their monthly appearances at local breweries, Philadelphia’s chapter of Opera on Tap will be at Germantown’s historic Johnson House to perform works by mostly Philadelphia-area composers, along with a newly commissioned work for the ensemble, exploring the definition and cost of patriotism from different perspectives - not least from those who would have used the Johnson House as a stop on the Underground Railroad. They’ll perform commissioned works inspired by land and nature - including a new piece by George Lewis previous commissions by Kirsten Broberg and David Shapiro and Pēteris Vasks’ setting of a poem by Czeslaw Milosz. You’ll traverse five stations, beginning at the farm and ending at the garden - sampling wine, beer, and locally sourced vittles at each stop, as you listen to the heavenly voices of The Crossing, led by Donald Nally. Wear your hiking shoes and bring your appetite to The Crossing’s season-opening concert, at Kings Oaks Farm near Newtown in Bucks County. The Crossing, Walking the Farm: A Progressive Concert Delaware Valley Opera Company will perform Liebovar, or The Little Blind Girl, the story of a world where all the children have disappeared except one girl (played by Nichole Dantoni) who must join forces with the animals of the forest to defeat an evil ogre. Philly’s Fringe Fest featured a new take on a classic opera last year, and this year there will be an entirely new work with story and music by a Philadelphia-area composer, Misha Dutka.


(Mark Pinto)ĭelaware Valley Opera Company, Liebovar, or The Little Blind Girl His use of improvisational and decorative elements characteristic of Mozart's time enhance this outstanding recording. Though not as full-bodied as a modern piano, Mozart’s instrument nonetheless produces pleasing, crisp-sounding tones that sing under Levin’s expressive and nimble touch. With this 7-CD boxed set, American musicologist, Mozart specialist, and keyboard virtuoso Robert Levin gives us historically informed performances of all of Mozart’s piano sonatas on the great Austrian composer’s own c.

Here is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the way he himself might have played it - on an instrument he did in fact play. Zev Kane, Classical Program Director (Also see: our Jazz Fall Preview) The result is a new concert season that promises extraordinary richness and depth, with programs and album releases that challenge the canon while honoring it in equal measure introduce bold new voices that will carry the art form forward for decades to come and deliver their weight in consoling, probing, captivating musical fulfillment. The tremendous challenges of the last few years have given musicians and institutions the imperative to reflect, adapt, and innovate. But that hint of normalcy doesn’t mean things will be the same.
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This year the notion of renewal particularly resonates, as performing arts institutions begin their first seasons largely free of the policies and precautions that have defined the pandemic live music experience.

In the world of classical music, fall signifies starting anew, as concert seasons commence and venues fill again with eager listeners. Autumn, perhaps more palpably than any other season, represents change: falling leaves, the first nip of cold in the air, bewilderment at the persistence of pumpkin spice on café menus.
