Composer Missy Mazzoli filters her opera 'The Listeners' through a contemporary lens
The English-language opera will receive its fourth production worldwide and second in the United States when Lyric Opera of ...
'Blow up the opera houses!': 100 years of Pierre Boulez
The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution.
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Why Composers Want to Write Operas for Children
For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera can be similarly transfiguring — it’s like casting a spell that lets them be both big and small. Artists with highly ...
She began composing an opera at age 8. Now, at 20, she’s conducting Norfolk’s Governor’s School.
Alma Deutscher, 20, who spent her childhood traveling the world as a professional musician, will conduct Norfolk Governor’s ...
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An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces
The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National Symphony did the same for the modernist George Walker. The Metropolitan ...
In Lyric Opera’s ‘The Listeners,’ one little sound drives a woman to the edge
The opera by composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follows a schoolteacher who is plagued by a sound called “the ...
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Interview: Composer Dr. Jennifer Jolley
Composer Dr. Jennifer Jolley spoke with Henry McNulty about her recent and upcoming projects. Dr. Jolley's latest press ...