RALEIGH, NC – Back by popular demand, this enchanting Halloween-themed program offers fun for the whole family. Forty costumed singers perform captivating, creepy choral compositions. This program runs the gamut from works...
Read MoreRALEIGH, NC – Operas performed in a concert format are often viewed as economy productions, where the music eclipses the visual spectacle that comes with ornate sets, lavish costumes, and ready action. There was nothing...
Read MoreDURHAM, NC – “Your attentive participation, through listening with your ears and your heart, will allow you to enjoy fully this exchange of ideas, to sense these various moods, and to reap the full therapeutic rewards that...
Read MoreWe’ve reached that season when the arts calendar fills with a cluster of productions that reprise Dickens’ Christmas Carol, Handel’s Messiah, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker – a rather traditional...
Read MoreThe Bel Canto Company, along with the (recently formed) Gate City Voices, returned to its “home” venue Friday night for the “Harmonious Holidays” concert in the acoustically rich Christ United Methodist...
Read MorePart of the beauty of live performance is that the experience is truly one of a kind. Rhiannon Giddens’ homecoming concert at the Carolina Theatre in Greensboro will never be repeated in exactly the same way, though would...
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Take a moment and recall a memory with music at the center. Maybe you hear the low, scratchy voice...
Read MoreA sudden, grievous red light cast the Greensboro Opera stage as cellist Cremaine Booker and percussionist David Verin churned up the sounds of undeniable frustration. Lead soprano and librettist, Roberta Gumbel, stumbled on...
Read MoreOthmar Schoeck: Das stille Leuchten. Clara O’Brien, mezzo-soprano; James Douglass, piano; Ablaze Records: ar-00063; Duration 60:00; $13.99 via Ablaze Records. Are you in the market for an NC-created, unique, and...
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Through 4/23: A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, UNC School of the Arts Presents The Rivals by Kirke Mechem
The first of three performances of the witty and buoyant opera, The Rivals by Kirke Mechem (US, b....
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Hope for Tomorrow: Choral Society of Durham’s “Singing Sorrow, Singing Tomorrow”
Back by popular demand after its performance on March 11, the Choral Society of Durham presented a...
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Sequina DuBose: Blurred Lines: 21st Century Hybrid Vocal Works
Sequina DuBose, soprano with Gregory Thompson, piano. With Mira Frisch (cello); Daniel Ferreira...
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