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09/12/2026

An interview with Laura Strickling on LEGENDS: Rebellion. Check it out!

(Credit: Arielle Donson) A brilliant new CD with soprano Laura Strickling, pianist Joy Schreier, and cellist Carrie Bean Stute, makes a touching and important poetic and musical statement about the condition of women in the contemporary world, with moving poetry, original compositions, and stellar p...

09/12/2026

Bass-baritone Enrico Lagasca will be a featured soloist in Balm in Gilead, arranged by Shawn E. Okpebholo, part of Honoring 9/11: Music on the Hour at Trinity Church in New York City on September 13.

Trinity musicians honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with a weekend of hourly musical offerings at St. Paul’s Chapel, which became a place of refuge and healing for neighbors and first responders following September 11. The performance will also feature Michael Sheetz on piano and Melissa Baker on flute.

09/11/2026

Soprano Michele Kennedy will perform Rameau's arias Temple Sacré and Viens H***n with the Yarrow Consort on September 11 in Berkeley, California. The concert is presented by Baroque Chamber Concerts.

This concert features a wild variety of textures. We’ll hear from pieces for two players (Blavet, Couperin) to chamber music for several players (Telemann Paris Quartet), to an operatic aria or two (Rameau) to a concerto for a true chamber orchestra with a trio in the middle (Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto # 5 ).

09/10/2026

Nola Richardson, Soprano shines in a supporting turn in Opera Philadelphia's latest, Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto.

🎭 "Richardson as Ismene sang sweetly, with a ringing soprano that left the audience wishing for more than her two arias."

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Lawrence Brownlee in the title role and Brenda Rae as Aspasia in Mozart’s “Mitridate” at Opera Philadelphia. Photo: Dominic Mercier

09/10/2026

Mezzo-soprano Mary Phillips will perform Beethoven Symphony No. 9 as part of the 25th Annual 9/11 Memorial Concert on September 11 in New York City. The concert is presented by The Schiller Institute and the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture.

To properly remember and pay tribute to the victims of 9/11/2001 attacks and the ongoing quarter century of continuous wars since then, this program will reach out to namesake Friedrich Schiller, the Poet of Freedom, and two great musical masters, Beethoven & Brahms. An die Freude (To Joy) and Nänie, (a Song of Lament) in the music of Beethoven & Brahms present two contrasting images of the magnificence and beauty found in the brotherhood of mankind.

The program also includes two works of Antonín Dvořák: Goin' Home and his own recently discovered rendition of My Country "tis of Thee; Spirituals, guests speakers including Becky Rossman CEO of Tuesday's Promise; and the FDNY Ceremonial Unit Color Guard.

09/08/2026

Nola Richardson, Soprano will perform the role of Ismene in Opera Philadelphia's production of Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto on September 9, 10, and 13 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mozart was just 14 years old when he wrote this rare gem that has all the hallmarks of musical brilliance and hormonal adolescence. Angst, risky behavior, and fraught romance never sounded quite so good.

09/07/2026

Tenor Richard Pittsinger will perform Charpentier's Les arts florissants and La descente d'Orphée aux enfers during tour stops with Les Arts Florissants in Italy and France September 9, 10 and 12.

Performances are September 9 in Turin, Italy; September 10 in Milan, Italy; and September 12 in Ambronay, France.

Charpentier's Les Arts florissants and La Descente d'Orphée aux enfers are part of the “story of the origins” of Les Arts Florissants, who performed them from their very first concerts. True jewels of theatrical music, these pocket operas were - and still are - fields of remarkably rich experimentation. They contain all the ingredients of Baroque vocal art: choruses in the style of the Roman school, eloquent declamatory solos, courtly arias... and echoes of Lully's comedies and tragedies, with typical overtures and lively, colorful instrumental pieces. These two masterpieces consecrate Charpentier's dramatic genius, whose lasting resonance with audiences remains living proof to this day.

09/05/2026

Wrapping up our back-to-school throwback photos of our artists with contralto Alessandra Visentin!

Growing up, Ale wasn't sure if she was going to do ballet or piano. 🎹 or 🍙? Here she is, pictured at age 5 in her tiny tutu (so cute!) and around 10 or 11, playing the piano. Finally, singing won the day, as pictured in a production of Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Italy. 🦋

One of the most fascinating voices on today's opera and concert stages, contralto Alessandra Visentin has garnered overwhelming acclaim not only for the rarity of her voice type, but also for her ability to wield it. A sought-after performer in some of the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, Visentin is a leading interpreter of Baroque and classical repertoire.

09/04/2026

We're closing out our back-to-school photos of Schwalbe & Partners artists with soprano Laura Strickling.

Laura was able to find her very FIRST school photo from the first day of kindergarten! Her mother made this "peak 80s" dress that Laura viscerally remembers being so proud of. Some things never change, as Laura's mom even made her very first Grammy dress, this stunning yellow number in picture 2. WOW!

A two-time GRAMMY® award nominee for Best Classical Vocal Solo Album for 40@40 (2024) and Confessions (2022), soprano Laura Strickling ha been recognized by The New York Times for her, “flexible voice, crystalline diction, and warm presence.” Celebrated for her work performing and promoting art song, with an emphasis on new additions to the canon through her landmark 40@40 Project song commissioning initiative, she is the host of SongCycle – a podcast covering all things song, curated The NewMusicShelf Soprano Anthology, and has performed recitals and presented masterclasses and lectures with art song and chamber music organizations, music festivals, and universities around the world.

09/03/2026

Soprano Nola Richardson was a born star who loved to play dress up! Continuing our back-to-school feature of throwback photos of our artists, our first photo shows Nola, age 7, in a school concert about "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." The second photo is of Nola arouns age 8, dressed in her cowgirl best for a Western-themed day at school. You always stand out, Nola!

Making her mark as an "especially impressive" (The New York Times) soprano, Australian/American Nola Richardson is a rapidly rising star increasingly recognized for her performances which combine a voice of "astonishing balance and accuracy,” “crystalline diction,” and “natural-sounding ease” (Washington Post) with "spellbinding acting-singing... substantial powers of melisma, melodic agility, and timbre modulation." (blogcritic.org)