Seattle Opera's "Fellow Travelers," Seattle Symphony's "Iris Unveiled" and Bach in fresh contexts are among highlights of the ...

During her studies, her chamber music work Spring won an Excellence Award at the China Conservatory of Music “New Generation” ...

It's that time: our year-end reckoning with the worst, most overhyped, tone-deaf, and exasperating art we saw 2025.

There was no stage, no ticket booth, no program. Just a musician, her flutes, and a public square transformed into a concert hall. Sun has become an unlikely civic phenomenon on social media. Since ...

Liu Ren-haur. In Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung’s Birdy, the dancers wear 4-foot-long pheasant feathers on their heads. The effect, according to a review in the Vancouver online magazine Stir, ...

It won’t whip the llama’s ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera’s Dynamic Themes, ...

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JJ Hudson wishes there was a term that would best describe Wichita Grand Opera’s performances of “West Side Story” next weekend. The two performances are billed as a “concert version,” the production ...

Fifteen years after its premiere, Xiaogang Ye’s opera “Song of Farewell,” dubbed as the first Chinese opera addressing LGBTQ+ psychological dimensions, has re-emerged with renewed vitality through a ...

Remembering the stars and notable figures who've died this year, including Val Kilmer, Michelle Trachtenberg, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Robert Redford, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Diane Keaton, and more.

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...