Opera Fans Rejoice! New York City Opera’s Resurrection Begins Arts Music Opera by Basil Considine - January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan has approved a plan to restart New York City Opera. The celebrated company shuttered abruptly in the middle of its 2013-2014 season after an acute financial crisis. Soon afterwards, several rival plans were proposed for resurrecting the group and quickly became tangled in legal
Picking the Best Choral Pieces, American Idol-Style Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 12, 2016 American Idol may be in its last season, but the audience voting method that it popularized to American audiences is alive and well...in choral music? Yes, you read that correctly. YourClassical.org is conducting a poll of Internet audiences' favorite pieces of choral music, with Minneapolis-based VocalEssence to perform the top 15
NEWS: IRS Drops Proposed Donations Rule; Nonprofits Rejoice Arts Dance Music Opera Theatre Visual Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 8, 2016January 11, 2016 The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it has formally withdrawn proposed new regulations for donations to nonprofits. The proposed regulations would have required nonprofits to retain and provide considerable new documentation for charitable, tax-deductible donations of $250 or more. The rule was opposed by a broad spectrum of nonprofit
RIP: Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Arts Music by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 7, 2016 Pierre Boulez, one of the most influential figures in Western art music during the 20th century, died January 5 at the age of 90. A Frenchman by birth, he promoted new and avant-garde music across the world as a composer, conductor, pianist, and writer. He earned 26 Grammy Awards, founded and
REVIEW: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tour/State Theatre) Arts Music Theatre by Basil Considine - January 5, 2016January 11, 2016 A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, now playing at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, is easily one of the best musicals to come out of Broadway in the last several years. It is also a breath of fresh air in that theatre world that has become dominated by movie-to-stage
INTERVIEW: Kevin Massey of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Arts Music Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - January 4, 2016January 4, 2016 The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder opens Tuesday at the State Theatre. The Twin Cities Arts Reader's Basil Considine chatted up Kevin Massey, who plays the charming Monty Navarro in his quest to become the heir to the D'Ysquith family fortune. Are you sure that you want