Indianapolis Opera is marking a half-century of championing the vocal arts throughout central Indiana with a legacy gala concert in collaboration with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Credit: Joe Armao Swedish choreographer Johan Inger created this version for a Spanish dance company in 2015, using Rodion Shchedrin’s wonderfully dark and muscular Carmen Suite, a rearrangement ...

In view of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s outstanding contribution to national culture and in connection with the upcoming 200 th anniversary of his birth in 2026, the President resolved to accept the ...

Chicago Symphony audiences expected to hear the American composer’s clarinet concerto, written for CSO principal clarinetist Stephen Williamson, last season. Unexpected quadruple bypass surgery ...

Maison Hermès / Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Image © Michel Denancé, courtesy of Renzo Piano Building Workshop In 1900, Paris hosted its first Olympic games. It ...

It was adopted by Rodion Shchedrin into a 47-minute ballet performance that he wrote for his ballerina wife. Choreographed originally by a Cuban man called Alberto Alonso, it’s known as Carmen ...

Arguably the most unusual work on show was German Paul Hindemith’s Konzertmusik For Piano, Brass And Two ... Living Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (1967), a ballet of 13 ...

Paul Hindemith’s Konzertmusik for piano, brass and two harps (1930) qualifies to be the oddest of his five rather odd (and oddly-titled) piano concertos. In four movements lasting almost a half hour, ...