Kaufman Music Center brought live music back to NYC’s Upper West Side with a pop-up concert series with 107 performances featuring 202 of our city’s finest performers, including chamber musicians, soloists, Broadway stars from Hamilton, Tootsie and Company, and artists from the Merkin Hall stage. More than 30K passers-by enjoyed the performances. Presented in partnership with the Alphadyne Foundation, Musical Storefronts […]
Welcome to Forrópera, the wonderful world of husband/wife duo Chrystal E. Williams (mezzo-soprano) and Felipe Hostins (accordionist), where opera, Broadway, and Brazilian folk music exuberantly collide, bringing you a musical experience like no other—all with the couple’s genre-bending style to “foster unity, understanding, and peace through music”. Join us for an exciting musical tour around […]
While the body of the legendary tormented saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker lies unidentified in a New York City morgue, his ghost travels back to Birdland, the famed New York City jazz club named after him. As he struggles to complete his final masterpiece, the great bebop innovator revisits the demons, inspirations, and women who have […]
Esperanza Arts Center presents a special live-streamed staged world premiere in partnership with Astral Artists featuring Brazilian Forró music, opera, dance, and storytelling traditions, as part of Voces 2021. Building on the sound of Forrópera, co-created by Chrystal E. Williams and Felipe Hostins, Forrópera Experiência features Chrystal E. Williams (mezzo-soprano) and Forró musicians Gabe Hall […]
Mozart Requiem The Columbia Orchestra Colleen Daly Eberhardt, soprano Chrystal E. Williams, mezzo-soprano Rolando Sanz, tenor Trevor Scheunemann, baritone And on the big screen: Singers of the St. Louis and St. Francis of Assisi music ministries. OR, watch from home: Watch the performance from home by using this link at 5 p.m. on June 6th: […]
Birmingham Opera Company’s eagerly awaited production of Wagner’s RhineGold came to Symphony Hall. Performed in English, with its full musical forces: an orchestra of 87 players from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a stellar international cast plus local volunteers. As ever, it was opera for our times. "Ecstasy from Birmingham Opera Company..... incontestably the […]
This scorching new production of one of the most popular operas ever written will take you deep down into a world where desire and hot-blooded passion reign supreme… Carmen is a strong woman doing what she can to survive in a poor frontier town, manipulating and seducing the men who try to control her. But […]