Performing Arts

NEW YORK—The exact moment when twilight or, if you will, dusk begins can offer powerful and wonderful opportunities. If one could find that exact instant when the world shifts from ...

The technique of tone painting goes as far back as the history of music. Even in the time of ...

In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the Royal Musical Association in London the ...

NEW YORK—Forgiving past hurts and moving forward is often easier said than done, especially when the reason for ...

TORONTO–Internationally renowned Canadian soprano Tracy Dahl is back in Toronto this winter in the Canadian Opera Company's (COC) ...

The year 1865 began with a great loss for composer Johannes Brahms. That February, his mother died. By ...

NEW YORK—Legendary Italian orchestra conductor Arturo Toscanini (1867–1957) was arguably one of the most seminal figures in 20th-century ...

NEW YORK—In the beginning of the two-person play “About Alice,” the character of Calvin Trillin (Jeffrey Bean) recalls some ...

Featuring conductor Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Orchestra, a new Onyx Classics album showcases two of Handel’s ...

In a bustling restaurant of excited chatter and shouting toddlers, Kaidi Wu is the opposite of her surroundings. ...

Damian Iorio will be conducting the Welsh National Opera's revival of Dominic Cooke's production of Mozart's “The Magic Flute” during February and May ...

LONDON—With her latest recording, violinist Jennifer Pike has been rediscovering her Polish roots. The Chandos disc "The Polish Violin,” with pianist ...

One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols, “Silent Night,” is celebrating its 200th birthday this year. Over ...

NEW YORK—It's one thing to rail against an oncoming storm, as Paddy Chayefsky depicted in the 1976 film ...

NEW YORK—Actor and playwright Heather Raffo has created an Iraqi family that has come to New York and ...

NEW YORK—“Never let the facts get in the way of a good story” is a quote usually attributed ...

NEW YORK—You may never have personally experienced the moments recalled in "A Child's Christmas in Wales," but after ...

NEW YORK—Irish Repertory Theatre’s director Conor Bagley linked together two darkly romantic plays by the late, wonderful writer ...

“A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England, is the sound of ...

New York City reaches an intensity during the holiday season that can be felt by visitors and locals ...

Despite a significant body of work, perhaps over 3,400 compositions, the works of composer Antonio Caldara remain very ...

In the past 12 years since Shen Yun Performing Arts was established, I have seen numerous performances and ...

NEW YORK—Are people shaped innately or are their outlooks on life shaped by their experiences, beginning from the ...

NEW YORK—Both surreal and sometimes cartoon-like, Hansol Jung's new play, co-produced by New York's Public Theater and La ...

This beautifully imaginative album “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges: Romantic songs and piano transcriptions,” on Challenge Records, alternates between a song ...

With the holiday season in full swing, performing arts traditions abound in the city. This Christmas, the New ...

NEW YORK—At the onset of Christmas 1914, an amazing thing happened on the Western Front of World War ...