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Erté's Art Deco take on the Queen of the Night.

Delaware Valley Opera Company's 'Magic Flute'

A steampunk night at the opera

You don’t have to be a fan of opera or classical music to have a great time at the Delaware Valley Opera Company’s low-budget but thoroughly charming production of Mozart’s Magic Flute, in which opera meets vaudeville for an evening of fun.

Michael J. Miller

Jul 18, 2015 Articles 2 minute read

Portrait of Anton Rubinstein by Ilya Repin.

Russian Opera Workshop present Rubinstein's 'The Demon'

The Demon comes to Philadelphia

The Russian Opera Workshop presented the Philadelphia premiere of one of Russia’s most popular operas.

Tom Purdom

Jun 30, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Saying the magic word: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in “My Dinner with Andre.” (© 1981 - New Yorker Films)

On saying "thank you"

My dinner with Beethoven

Why do we say "thank you," and who do we say it to?

Kile Smith

Jun 23, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Schuller with his French horn, c. 1940s.

Gunther Schuller: An appreciation

Gunther Schuller had more musical careers than Leonard Bernstein, including composer, conductor, educator, French horn player, author, and longtime advocate of the co-existence of jazz and classical music.

Bruce Klauber

Jun 23, 2015 Articles 2 minute read

Ornette Coleman in 2011. (Photo by Michael Hoefner via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Ornette Coleman: An appreciation

Time catches up to Ornette

Live long enough, as jazz innovator Ornette Coleman did, and it can help your public catch up to you — even to music like his, which was once well ahead of its time.

Michael Woods

Jun 16, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

18th-cenutry plus modern: Curtis Opera Theatre's "Rake's Progress" (photo by Karli Cadel)

The spring opera season in Philadelphia

A plethora of operatic options

The 2014-2015 opera season in Philadelphia ends with an array of productions from many eras.

Susan Gould

Jun 16, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

The undeniably winsome Mary Elizabeth Bowden. (Photo via summitrecords.com)

Mary Elizabeth Bowden; David Crumb; Barbara Westphal & Christian Ruvolo

Celebrating Philadelphia composers

Three recent CDs highlight the music of composers with Philadelphia connections, from Samuel Barber to Andrea Clearfield.

Jun 13, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Tempesta di Mare closes their season

Baroque theaters and modern cathedrals

The music season ended with Tempesta di Mare’s latest visit to Baroque France and an unexpected bonus from Lyric Fest’s artistic directors.

Tom Purdom

Jun 12, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Charlie’s first wife (Chrystal E. Williams) sings about Charlie (Lawrence Brownlee) abandoning her and their son. (Photo by Dominic M. Mercier)

Opera Philadelphia's 'Yardbird' (first review)

A contradictory enterprise

Yardbird composer Daniel Schnyder went well beyond 1930s popular music (the legacy that Parker and cohorts unabashedly used as a foil to create the new bebop jazz) to create a unique synthesis of many other musical ingredients and flavors.