From Morocco to Afghanistan to Indonesia, the stories of Scheherazade are still with us. If folkloric tales are the pillars holding up a society, then the story of Scheherazade and her Alfi Layla wa ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Classical Music & beyond. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more than its fair ...

Unless you’re a world expert in Russian opera, you’re unlikely to have stumbled across either of the one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov that make up the fine double bill on offer from Island City Opera ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) is one of the group of 19th century ...

The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

Performed on campus at Dickinson State University, the Dickinson City Band and Orchestra shared holiday favorites and ...

On the surface the genre of the lullaby in art music seems to have a limited purpose. In instrumental music, particularly piano works, and in song literature, individual lullabies act as quaint ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...