Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23 features the Philly premiere of Grammy-winning Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman’s Unholy Wars, with artistic triumph in every detail. Gail Obenred…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:51PMThe Crossing choir opens its new season with Crickets in Our Backyard, featuring world premieres by Tania León and Ayanna Woods, and an “indoor premiere” by Wang Lu. Gail Obenreder revi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:13PMAndrew Wyeth is not widely known as an abstract artist, but maybe he should be. A beautifully configured exhibition at the Brandywine Museum of Art looks closer. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:30AMNorth Wilmington’s Rockwood Park, with its own alleged hauntings, makes an appropriately chilling setting for Delaware Shakespeare’s summer outing with The Scottish Play. Gail Obenreder …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:51PMCurating the hottest classical music events in the area this month, including those from OperaDelaware, Academy of Vocal Arts, and a performance of Black Metropolis. Gail Obenreder rounds up.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:45PMBrandywine Museum of Art presents the first major Joseph Stella exhibition in more than 30 years, proving this pioneering, imaginative modernist’s ongoing importance. Gail Obenreder review…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:13PMYes, it’s summer, and Gail Obenreder previews some of its early classical music offerings.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:53PMPhiladelphia composer George Crumb, who died last year, was famous for his music as well as his hand-notated scores, art forms in themselves. Orchestra 2001 had both on display in this combi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PMPiffaro closes its season with Entre dos Álamos, a musical trip to South America including Spanish and Indigenous texts and music, proving that great music has always been created everywher…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:30PMGail Obenreder previews the rest of May’s classical music offerings, with events from Astral Artists, Artcinia, Orchestra 2001, Lyric Fest, and Relâche.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:31PMTempesta di Mare explores the music of Baroque Venetian charitable institutions that were famous for their vocal and instrumental ensembles, made up of brilliant women artists who were hidde…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:41AMLike many university art collections, St. Joseph’s is an eclectic one, but it now boasts an elegant new home in the former quarters of the Barnes Foundation. Gail Obenreder visits.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:27AMMay offerings from Curtis Opera Theatre, Jeremy Winston Chorale, and Pyxis Piano Trio; and Tempesta di Mare celebrates its Fasch Prize win. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:45PMDavid Amado and the Delaware Symphony closed the season with back-to-back Beethoven, a familiar yet thrilling performance to finish the maestro’s two-decade tenure. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PMFor its first concert at Longwood Gardens, Lyric Fest honored Earth Day with a program inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s surprisingly sophisticated 1790 text, The Metamorphosis of P…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PMDelaware Theatre Company closes its 43rd season with a thoughtful, inventive, and dazzling rendition of the classic musical with the triple-decker story, Man of La Mancha. Gail Obenreder rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29AMGail Obenreder previews the second half of April’s classical music offerings, including performances by Opera Philadelphia, Delaware Symphony, Variant Six, and more.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:28PMThis spring, Delaware Art Museum boasts a pair of striking but very different exhibitions: Our Red Planet: Anna Bogatin Ott, and Estampas de La Raza: Contemporary Prints from the Romo Collec…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:08AMIn a world of operas known for romance and tragedy, La traviata really delivers the romance and tragedy in this co-production of OperaDelaware and Opera Baltimore. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:18PMGail Obenreder previews classical music happening in the first half of April in the Greater Philadelphia area.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:35PMThis new exhibition studies the way Andrew Wyeth saw his favorite buildings, honoring the artist’s abstract work, as well as the better-known representational. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:48PMGail Obenreder previews more of the classical music offerings in and around the city in March.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:01PMGail Obenreder rounds up the upcoming classical music offerings in the Philadelphia area for the first part of March 2023.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:37PMMore classical music offerings for the month of February, including the new Grammy Award winners Philadelphia Orchestra. Gail Obenreder previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:09AMAfter a decade at the helm of Delaware Theatre Company, Bud Martin says goodbye with an uproarious, perfectly orchestrated production of One Man, Two Guvnors, true to its commedia roots. Gai…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:53PMGail Obenreder previews the first half of February’s classical music offerings in and around the city of Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:21PMA thrilling performance from 21st-century bard Benjamin Bagby at Penn Live Arts brought the firelit mead-hall of Beowulf to modern audiences. Gail Obenreder reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:01PMGail Obenreder rounds up even more January classical music offerings in and around the city.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:06PMPhiladelphia has a thriving and innovative musical scene, but that’s nothing new, as The Publick Pleasure proved at a Main Line Early Music concert highlighting favorites of the 18th centu…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMGail Obenreder previews this month’s upcoming classical music performances in the area, with offerings from the Philadelphia Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Artcinia, and more.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:02PMPiffaro’s much-anticipated holiday concert invites us to Christmas in Renaissance Italy this year, and will be available to stream as a recording for those celebrating at home. Gail Obenre…
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