Featuring a baroque orchestra and vocalists David Daniels and Robert McDonald performing music inspired by Shakespeare’s play and readings by Sir Derek Jacobi, Holly Twyford, and Richard Clifford      Folger Consort, the early music ensemble in residence at Folger Shakespeare Library, announces the addition to its season of two performances of Tempest, featuring music...
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La Musique Magnifique Early Music Masterpieces from France May 24 – June 26 Welcome to the fifth season of the Washington Early Music Festival! This year the Festival visits the music of French composers from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, exploring the rich cultural history of France with concerts, lectures and workshops. This...
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Early Music Exposed, A Daylong Exploration of Early Music, Celebrates the Reopening of The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments with Presentations by Six Major Early Music Ensembles Saturday, March 13, 2010 Frederick Renz Hosts Lecture-Demonstrations by the New York Historical Dance Company, Parthenia, Lionheart, Asteria, ARTEK, and Members of the Grand Tour Orchestra...
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Seattle Opera’s production of Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, is one that has been three years in the making.  The opera, much like the play, has arguably little substance, but centers around one of Shakespeare’s most beloved characters.  Reported to be a “fine production,” I would urge anyone who has not seen a production of this...
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Composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote what is perhaps the most famous wedding march known today, but it is unlikely that many know that the march is part of an overture of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. To learn more about Mendelssohn and his overture, click here.
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SoBe Institute of the Arts will begin its annual Music & Shakespeare series withTwelfth Night.   Dr. Kievman states that as music was integral to Shakespeare’s productions, and since Twelfth Night is so musical to begin with, the choice was natural.  To read more about this project, click here.
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In David Greig’s new play, Dunsinane, a sequel to Macbeth, audiences should expect to hear contemporary music by composer Nick Powell.   Powell and several other collaborators who have worked together on previous projects are likely to fill audiences with wonder. To learn more about this production, click here. 
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The 2010 Santa Cruz Baroque Festival will feature a “Shakespeare’s London” concert on Saturday, February 20, featuring the music of Elizabethan composers. The Baroque Festival attempts to recreate Shakespeare’s London with music by Thomas Morley and Robert Johnson, among others. During the concert, soprano Julianne Baird and lutenist Richard Savino will perform with the...
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Recently it seems as though there has been an upward trend in the clash of music and Shakespearean sonnets.  Most recently, harpsichordist and conductor Laurence Cummings directed singers from the Handel and Haydn Society, along with actors Lee Aaron Rosen and Nikkole Salter in a Valentine’s concert. For a review of the event by...
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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the Philharmonia Orchestra are joining forces for Alike in Dignity, a unique education project that is the first joint venture of its kind between the two organisations. Working with over 250 children from five local Leicester schools, musicians from the Orchestra and members of the RSC’s Education Department...
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