While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Scipione Sangiovanni is competing at the Cliburn competition later this month Our classical music contributor Gregory Sullivan Isaacs updates us on what’s coming this month in choral and orchestral ...

The Florida Orchestra brings out the big guns with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, best known for the 16 cannon shots symbolizing Russia's defense against Napoleon. "It's just a sensational piece of ...

The movie overture—music set against a blank screen or still images before the drama unfolds—all but disappeared from film sometime in the 1970s. Once a Hollywood mainstay, overtures evolved naturally ...

Antonín Dvorák wrote two of the five overtures here (My Home and Hussite) for now-forgotten plays whose subject matter encouraged him to use traditional songs. The other three (In Nature's Realm, ...

The reasons why Pacific Overtures is not Stephen Sondheim’s most frequently performed musical may also explain why it is one of his best! The subject matter does not involve a central love story that ...