Classical
Your complete guide to New York City classical music. From Carnegie Hall to the Metropolitan Opera, from the New York Philharmonic to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, find your list of all current NYC concerts, recitals and performances here at ZEALnyc.
You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the Sixties at ...
Click here for more information. Discover the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s. From communal living and forays into expanded consciousness, to tensions around race, politics, sexuality and the environment, this exhibition explores the breadth and significance of this period. This event is part ...
Opening Night Gala with San Francisco Symphony Features Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/10/03/CARNEGIE-HALLS-OPENING-NIGHT-GALA-SAN-FRANCISCO-SYMPHONY-0700PM57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala with the San Francisco Symphony features a pair of vocal superstars—Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald—joining conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for an evening of favorites from opera and music theater. To add to the festive occasion, there’s ...
San Francisco Symphony with Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2018/10/04/san-francisco-symphony-0800pm57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
San Francisco Symphony with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas reflects his lifelong relationship with Stravinsky, dating back to performing in Stravinsky’s presence during Tilson Thomas’s student days in Los Angeles. This all-Stravinsky program promises spectacular orchestral colors, ...
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2018/10/14/orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique-0300pm57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at Carnegie Hall is a opportunity to hear the music as Berlioz would have when the piquant winds, warm brass, and crisp strings of a celebrated period-instrument orchestra make his vibrant colors and gorgeous melodies soar even higher. Moving tales inspired ...
Review: Could ‘Be More Chill’ Be More Shrill?
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 17, 2018 The musical Be More Chill was already a bit of a sensation even before it recently opened Off-Broadway at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The show had its world premiere in Redbank, NJ in 2015 at the Two River Theater, ...
Life In Focus: José James in Concert at Lincoln Center ...
By Juliana Crawford, Contributing Photographer, August 15, 2018 [caption id="attachment_59953" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Kori Whithers (vocals) and José James (guitar, vocals); photo: Juliana Crawford.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_59954" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Kori Whithers; photo: Juliana Crawford.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_59959" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] ...
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group Excels in Various Chamber Music ...
By Sheila Kogan, Contributing Writer, August 15, 2018 The Mark Morris Dance Group, which has a long association with the Mostly Mozart Festival, presented a World Premiere for this year’s season at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center. The company danced to the popular chamber music ...
Review: The Amiable Schlock of 'Gettin' the Band Back Together'
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 14, 2018 Sometimes shows come to Broadway that automatically get the online theater wags sharpening their knives. Before a show has even played its first preview, the theaterati start taking bets on when it will close, and polishing off their “What ...
Review: 'Moulin Rouge' Gets a Lavish Pre-Broadway Tryout in Boston
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 13, 2018 Before the 1980s, Boston was a major out-of-town stop for plays and musicals before they went to Broadway. The economics of such tryouts have changed drastically, as has the standard model for developing new plays and musicals, and Boston’...
Art Break: Just a Short Journey North, The Hudson Valley ...
By A. E. Colas, Contributing Writer, August 13, 2018 The Hudson Valley has a special place in the heart of Art Break. So many of our favorite artists spent their summers in the region with friends and family, working on projects, and enjoying the beautiful landscape, just ...
Newport Jazz Festival Showcases Women Artists and Emerging Talents
By Doug Hall, Contributing Writer, August 10, 2018 This year’s Newport Jazz Festival highlighted an incredibly diverse selection of women performers and women ensemble groups. The festival’s founder George Wein, in his newsletter “Notes from the Wein Machine” (March, 2018), was very direct in his statement ...
Review: A Young Woman's Quest for Love and Passion in ...
By Megan Wrappe, Contributing Writer, August 9, 2018 Discovering how life works is what resonates the most in Lisa Langseth’s one-woman show Beloved, starring Ellinor DiLorenzo and directed by Kathy Curtiss. The play begins with the character Katarina rummaging around her grandmother’s cottage, putting things ...
Review: 'Before We're Gone' Tackles Big Themes at 13th Street ...
By Diana Mott, Contributing Writer, August 6, 2018 Before We're Gone ended it's run at 13th Street Repertory Theatre on August 5 with hopes of moving uptown and, with caveats, it deserves another chance to be seen. It is a small play, made for a small stage in ...
Review: A Mozart-less Evening Turns to ICE with 'Grand Pianola ...
By Brian Taylor, Contributing Writer, August 6, 2018 The Mostly Mozart Festival's recent presentation of the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College was a welcome respite from the summer's punishing mugginess. Entitled "Grand Pianola Music," after the John Adams piece ...
Orchestra of St. Luke’s Performs Haydn and Mozart at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2018/10/25/orchestra-of-st-lukes-0800pm57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Orchestra of St. Luke’s with principal conductor Bernard Labadie performs an evening of Haydn and Mozart. Haydn’s “Nelson Mass” might have been inspired by the visit of the British naval hero to the Esterházy estate where he worked. There’s certainly a martial flair to the ...
Czech Philharmonic Play All-Dvořák at Carnegie Hall
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2018/10/27/CZECH-PHILHARMONIC-0800PM57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019
Czech Philharmonic Semyon Bychkov Alisa Weilerstein Carnegie Hall. Hearing a great orchestra perform Dvořák is memorable, but to experience a legendary Czech orchestra play his music is unforgettable. Two Dvořák masterpieces—the warmly expressive Symphony No. 7 and impassioned Cello ...