Host Alexa Smith shares performances from Manhattan School of Music’s Graduate Opera Program.

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, ...

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9/11 was, irrefutably, “an experience that was beyond music” (Corigliano), yet we still turned to music for healing and solace, each in our own time.

IN CONVERSATION – With Lauren Michelle James Bennett links up with Soprano Lauren Michelle to discuss racism in the opera house, the cost of speaking up, and how she tumbled headfirst into the ...

Aida: Off the Chain At the heart of Verdi's opera “Aida” is an African love story, where an Egyptian general and an Ethiopian princess fall in love. It premiered in Cairo in 1871, but the truth is, ...

Robert Schumann is celebrated today as a fine composer, writer and poet. But that wasn’t always the plan — young Rob initially wanted to be the finest concert pianist in the world. And then he rode ...

Why doctors train in New York and stay in New York September 5, 2025- We consider how many doctors getting trained in New York actually stay in New York (and why), with the help of David Armstrong, ...

Once during a recording session with a jazz ensemble and a string quartet, Neely noticed a surprising difference in the way classical musicians feel rhythm. He came to understand that w hile jazz (and ...