music

There is glowing anticipation around this new production directed by Italian conductor Maurizio Benini's whose positions could advance with the eventual retirement of musical director James Levine. Furthermore, a single soprano, Sondra Radvanovsky, is portraying all the “three queens” in...

Experimentation, improvisation and a reasoned anarchy of sounds: in these elements lies the strength of the band OU (‘egg’ in the Sardinian language) founded by the jazz trumpeter Ersilia Prosperi. After two long tours in the US, they now present...

The historic folk band of Puglia (Apulia) arrives to New York with a show that is the synthesis of a long research on ancient traditional songs. Work songs, tarantelle, love songs, religious songs, tammurriate, dances and rhythms are proposed in a mix...

The Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competition, celebrating this year its 24th anniversary, has become one of the world’s cultural treasures. And it has a connection to New York

One flight up and eighty years back in time. It happens in a Mexican restaurant in Manhattan where you end up in the golden age of big bands. Permorning the miracle is a big-boned Italian-American named Giordano who takes you back...