Opera Star Seeks New Audience

Opera Star Seeks New Audience

Jan 11, 2023 | Art, Culture, Music, New York, News & Trending

Opera star Sonya Yoncheva is launching a record label to try to connect her art to the new generation. Sonya Yoncheva, 41, is a soprano from Bulgaria, and has sung in many of the largest operatic venues and productions of the last ten years. In 2021 alone, she sang in...
Met Opera Opens With Medea

Met Opera Opens With Medea

Sep 26, 2022 | Art, Music, New York, News & Trending

The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
BAM: For Adventuresome Artists and Audiences

BAM: For Adventuresome Artists and Audiences

Oct 18, 2013 | Articles

Did you know that America’s oldest performing arts center is located right in the heart of Brooklyn, New York? The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) was founded in 1861, and since its inception it has grown to be inclusive of a multitude of artistic genres. In its more...
2012 Moments in Culture to Remember

2012 Moments in Culture to Remember

Jan 4, 2013 | Articles

The past year was full of culture sensations, some more worthy of our attention than others. Twenty-twelve brought us many successes and failures, revelations and metamorphoses. Let’s start with music culture, where we enjoyed the 50th anniversary tour of the Rolling...