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Wagnerites, take heed. In celebration of both National Opera Week as well as the composer's ongoing 200th, the Wagner Society of Santa Fe is seeking sequels to Der Ring des Nibelungen--specifically, what happens to Alberich... -
BREAKING: Noted American Conductor Lawrence Leighton Smith Is Dead at Age 77
Lawrence Leighton Smith, emeritus music director of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, passed away on October 25, 2013 after suffering a major heart attack earlier this month. -
Sonia Marie De León de Vega Bringing Classical Music to L.A. Latinos, One Family at a Time
Maestra Sonia Marie De León de Vega takes the stage. She's greeted with enthusiastic applause from an audience of families with young children, teenagers and young adults. About 80 percent of the audience members are Latino... -
John Sinclair's Spoken Word @ CBGB Festival
OK, so, technically, these were shot up and over in Koreatown--at Chris Noth's fancy pants dinner club, The Cutting Room. -
UPDATE: La Scala's Post-Barenboim Conductor is…Fabio Luisi?
UPDATE: Now, Italy's La Reppublica is reporting that Genoese maestro Fabio Luisi--principal conductor of the Met since September 2011 (i.e. from whence James Levine withdrew)--may very well be the preferred candidate. Call it... -
Jaap Blonk's Sound Poetry Primer @ Roulette
Make no mistake, Jaap Blonk remains the world's foremost sound poet. -
Is This the End of the Brooklyn Philharmonic?
Radio station WQXR reported some troubling news about the Brooklyn Philharmonic on Friday, adding to the woes of this professional ensemble that has been part of Brooklyn's musical -
Classicalite's Five Worst: Pub Shots
Here at Classicalite, we get deluged by publicity photos every day. Some are wonderful, most are average. And a small percentage are truly bizarre, in bad taste or downright silly... -
TRANSLATION: Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, "Ancient Scent"
Lost in the fire of last year's 'Pierrot' centennial was translation. After all, it was Otto Erich Hartleben's German--translated from the original French of Albert Giraud--that Arnold Schoenberg had set. To wit, over the past 21 weekdays.. -
And the New La Scala Boss is…Riccardo Chailly!
If the mounties are known for always getting their man, the same is often decidedly untrue in the murky world of opera house politics. But at La Scala, Italy's premiere house, they have pulled one heck of a triumph out of the hat and... -
Classicalite Recording News: Indie Labels Granted Reprieve After Codaex U.K. Bust
Lately, there's been some good news in the troubled world of classical music record companies and distributors--still reeling from the changes in listening (and buying) patterns. -
Judge Allows Alberto Vilar, Convicted of Fraud, to Attend the Met...as Valery Gergiev's Guest
Judge Richard J. Sullivan recently granted an extended curfew to disgraced businessman Alberto Vilar, so that he could attend the Metropolitan Opera's own scandal-ridden performance of 'Eugene Onegin.' -
Hoang Pham, Son of Vietnamese Refugees, Wins Australian Young Performer of the Year
Some stories in the arts are heartwarmers, first and foremost, pure and simple. That can certainly be said of the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year, a title bestowed at Melbourne Town Hall. Because this year it went -
South African Soprano Pretty Yende’s Rapid Rise
Soprano Pretty Yende grew up in Piet Retief, in a remote eastern province of South Africa. Her remarkable voice and passion for opera have brought her far, to the stages of La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, and an enviable career...
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