Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois were the perfectly matched vocal soloists as James MacMillan conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a ferociously committed performance of his own ...

It’s time for a check-in with GBH’s classical music connoisseur, Brian McCreath, director of production at GBH Music and host of CRB’s Boston Symphony Orchestra broadcast. He joined GBH’s All Things ...

McKinley Dixon is on one hell of a run. Ever since dropping Who Taught You to Hate Yourself? and The Importance of Self Belief back-to-back in 2018, the Virginia-raised, Chicago-based rapper has ...

The words aria and song are often used interchangeably – but are they really the same? Let’s clear up the confusion, breaking down what sets an aria apart, where the terms overlap, and why it all ...

An actor performs the poetry drama "Ein Heldenleben -- Cai Lun", a Chinese drama about the legendary inventor of paper-making, in London, Britain on Oct 17, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] A Chinese drama about ...

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Until the mid-nineteenth century, opera was wedded to rhythm and rhyme. Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that ...

The stage was empty as a single figure moved across it, dressed in a full-length, pale green robe with white sleeves long enough to reach the floor. Her intricately embroidered headdress had ribbons ...

A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat. But “Suffs,” which tells the story of the final push to achieve the ...

It’s the closest thing there is to a universal genre. That’s because, with rare exceptions, everyone falls in love, or at least wants to. And when you think about it, almost every movie is a love ...

Late Romance: Anthony Hecht, a Poet’s Life by David Yezzi Donald Fagen, the lead singer of Steely Dan, tells a story about the poet Anthony Hecht that does not appear in David Yezzi’s new biography.

They can take another’s words and sentences and reshape them, on the instant, transforming my stammered-over words into sublimities Back in 1985, the Irish government asked me to attend the Conference ...