A Feast of Song from Leeds Town Hall: Leeds Lieder’s 10th Festival, Thursday, June 17th - Sunday, June 20th, 2021 Leeds Lieder has bounced back from the cancellation of its 10th Anniversary Festival at the start of Lockdown. Since last October, this dynamic organisation has livestreamed sixteen recitals from Leeds Town Hall. A landmark 10th Festival now takes place next month at the Town Hall and will pack a score of recitals, masterclasses, and pre-performance talks into just four days. Every performance will be given in front of a socially distanced audience and livestreamed on Leeds Lieder’s digital platform.
Note: schedule is displayed in Eastern Time
12:00 PM
COVENANT - By York Walker, directed by Tamilla Woodard, dramaturg: John Glore. When he returns home to his small Georgia town, rumors fly that blues guitarist Johnny Honeycomb James may have sold his soul to the devil to attain his musical genius. But in this twisty folk-horror drama, jealousy, distrust and superstition determine Honeycomb s fate-even if the devil does play a part. click here
City in Transition: The Quadrant Series - Every city has its stories. This innovative on-demand digital production from Theater Alliance weaves together tales from across Washington, DC - sharing histories, experiences, and issues from within the District s four quadrants. Directed by Raymond O. Caldwell and written by Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Avery Collins, Shalom Omo-Osagie, and Leslie Scott-Jones, CITY IN TRANSITION provides a dynamic account of our nation s capital from artists who call the city their home. click here
Elegy: Snow in June. View here.
Friday, April 30
12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents
Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s
Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s
Reverie, and Kreisler’s
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents
Daniel Harding Conducts. Daniel Harding conducts the Concertgebouworkest in Stravinsky’s
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Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bach s
Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bach s masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here.
Delibes’s
Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante. With Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, and Davide Dato. Production from November 2018. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London presents