Performing Arts

This week, pianists came together for NTD's 5th International Piano Competition, with 15 contestants proceeding to the semi-final. Below is a list of the semi-finalists. Jiawei Lyu Fagan Nicolas Giacomelli ...

For the past 23 years, opera—and avocados—have thrived on Rick and Joan Kennaway’s “Operacado” orchard at Glenbervie, Whangarei, ...

The 2019 NTD 5th International Piano Competition semi-final and final are set to take place on Sept. 27-28. ...

Pianists from all around the world have come to New York for the 2019 NTD 5th International Piano ...

September marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann, a woman well known to musicians, but perhaps ...

NEW YORK—Any good magician can confound his or her audience. But orchestrating things so those attending are nothing ...

NEW YORK—By the end of the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's 1978 play "Betrayal," there are no winners, ...

German soprano Simone Kermes is a distinctive singer with an unmistakable approach to Baroque music. In her “Mio Caro ...

Leonardo Vinci—not to be confused with the iconic painter and inventor—is one of the Italian composers from the ...

"The violin sounds beautiful at the top but it just cannot go any lower, you're missing those basses. ...

NEW YORK—It’s not what you've done in life that matters, but what you haven't done. And thinking about ...

 NEW YORK—Sweet acoustic melodies floated out of The Met's Robert Lehman Wing court as I peered down from ...

It’s amazing how good music can lift your mood. On May 10, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider performed ...

NEW YORK—Louis Langrée often meets people while traveling, and they'll ask what he does. "I'm a conductor!" he'll ...

SPRING GREEN, Wis.—“Twelfth Night, or What You Will” has one of the funniest scenes in all of Shakespeare’s ...

The performance has come to an end; the musicians’ bows remain fixed in the air as their last ...

Sharon Isbin will perform, among others, the Boccherini Quintet No. 4 with the Calidore String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall ...

NEW YORK—One-person shows are generally not my cup of tea, but David Cale's autobiographical musical "We're Only Alive ...

NEW YORK—The need for freedom and sanctuary quickly becomes a running theme in David Cale's extremely personal one-person ...

NEW YORK—"The Mountains Look Different" presents a look at the farming class of a rural place not far from ...

I’m one of these people who doesn’t hear the lyrics when I first listen to music. It’s the ...

NEW YORK—A production by Primary Stages now at the Cherry Lane Theatre is perfect for an audience needing ...

“There isn't anything I can't do, I just find a different way of doing it, which is why ...

NEW YORK—One thing writer and performer Sarah-Louise Young makes clear at the outset of her show "Julie Madly ...

NEW YORK—Who knew there could be so much chemistry between two people brushing their teeth? A fascinating look at ...

NEW YORK—Hilarity is currently emanating from the stage of the East Side's York Theatre. Based on original source ...

NEW YORK—The Irish Rep continues its important task of presenting the entire Sean O'Casey Dublin Trilogy, as it's ...