Musical America has announced its 2018 Artist of the Year: Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons. The 38-year-old Latvian conductor’s professional career began as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra, before transitioning into…
Month: October 2017
The White House has announced that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on December 31, 2018. UNESCO was formally created effective November 4, 1946, as one…
Houston Grand Opera, one of the great opera companies of the United States, was hard-hit by Hurricane Harvey. Just like the Unsinkable Molly Brown, however, Houston Grand is not to be stopped: the company will…
A space between stairs and the wall became a performing space for Loft Opera’s production of Otello. Photo by Alejandro Simonetti. Grand opera is one of the most expensive live art forms in the world…