Mozart

Polish Orchestra Plays Mozart In Protest

AP | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Chamber Opera, Mozart, Poland, Budget Cuts, Opera, Polish Opera Protest, Funding, Orchestra, Bogdan Zdrojewski, Warsaw Opera, Culture Minister, Requiem, Opera Budget Cuts, Arts News

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish opera house has performed Mozart's Requiem – a funeral piece – in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw ...

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Casanova and Giovanni

Kim Witman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Casanova, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, Opera, Culture News

Casanova was a friend of Lorenzo da Ponte, the man who wrote the words to Mozart's Don Giovanni. Casanova, Lorenza da Ponte, and Don Giovanni. A frighteningly powerful intersection of virility, machismo and hubris.

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The Don Juan Mirror

Kim Witman | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Wolf Trap, Opera, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Mozart, Don Giovanni, Don Juan, Culture News

It seems that when we look at Don Giovanni, what we see are our own cultural obsessions peering back at us. In the late 20th century, we began to see Giovanni increasingly as a man in existential crisis.

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Culture With a Side of Popcorn

Tom Teicholz | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Aretha Franklin, The Metropolitan Opera, Nicholas Hytner, The Met in HD, The National Theater, Ballet in Cinema, Don Giovanni, Phedre, One Man Two Guvnors, Broadway, NT Live, Ray Charles, Bolshoi Ballet, Helen Mirren, Mozart, Arts News

One could do worse than to abide by these resolutions: Be lazy. Stay local. Be frugal -- see theater, opera and ballet in HD. Be lazy. Stay local. Be frugal. Travel the world without ever leaving home -- see theater, opera and ballet in HD.

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From Page to Stage: Don Giovanni

Kim Witman | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Dc Around Town, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, Don Juan, Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opera, Don Giovanni, Culture News

  Don Giovanni was a womanizer -- one beside whom Don Draper would pale. But it was not this Don's philandering, but the way in which he held himself above God and all morality that shocked Mozart's audiences most.

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15-Year-Old Mozart's Opera Gets Rare Staging

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Mozart Opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, 15 Year Old Mozart, Opera, Il Sogno Di Scipione, Gotham Chamber Opera, Christopher Alden, On Our Radar, Video, Culture News

NEW YORK -- With all the reckless disregard of youth for practicality, the 15-year-old Mozart filled his opera "Il sogno di Scipione" with one impossi...

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Beethoven's 5th As A Bar Graph

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Video, Beethoven Visualization, Mozart, Classical Music Bar Graph, Beethoven, Mozart Visualization, Classical Music Visualization, On Our Radar, Culture News

Music is embedded with mathematical logic -- But it can be hard to hear the patterns beneath the sounds. Which is where visualizations come in. Wh...

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LACO Refracts a Mozart Concerto With Timothy Andres

Rodney Punt | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: New Keys, Coronation Piano Concerto, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Timothy-Andres, RODNEY PUNT, Mozart, Jeffrey Kahane, Arts News

Andres stated earlier he hoped people wouldn't think he intentionally "gave the finger" to Mozart. But he needn't worry. The exercise came off more like a good-natured, thumb-nosing tribute to the irreverent genius from Salzburg.

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Easter Music So Gorgeous The Pope Kept It For Himself: The 'Miserere'

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Easter, Easter Music, Sistine Chapel, Tallis Scholars, Gregorio Allegri, Mozart, Miserere, Video, Entertainment News

Rome. Easter Week. The year: 1639 or 1790, it's all the same. The Matins service at the Vatican. 3 AM. Twenty-seven candles are lit. One at a time, th...

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Long-Lost Mozart Piece Performed

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart, Mozart Piece, Discovered Mozart Piece, Del Signore Giovane Wolfgango Mozart, Lost Mozart Piece, Video, Culture News

VIENNA -- A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after appar...

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Dark Mozart Production Says, We Could All End Up Drinking On A Park Bench

AP | RONALD BLUM | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Mozart, Cosi Fan Tutte, New York City Opera, NYC Opera, Christopher Alden, Cosi Fan Tutte Christopher Alden, Opera, Culture News

NEW YORK -- Christopher Alden has a bleak view of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte." The final message of his fascinating, quirky and sometimes downright wei...

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Mozart At The Movies

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart's Birthday, Mozart Birthday, Anniversary, Slidefullscreen, The Shawshank Redemption, Mozart, Video, Amadeus, Mozart in Film, Ace Venture: Pet Detective, Slidepollajax, Groundhog Day, Mozart in Movies, Week in Culture, Pictures, The Big Lebowski, On Our Radar, Culture News

Today marks the would-be 256th birthday of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Throughout his life, Mozart created more than 600 classical pieces. Thoug...

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Mozart, Newton and You?

Lisa Randall | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Creativity, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, Talent, Mozart, David Brooks, Discovery, Geniuses, Genius, Science News

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries -- the arts and humanities.

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Music: Food For The Brain

Big Think | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Mozart, Brain Development, Brain and Emotions, Cortisol, Music Therapy, Brain Growth, Bacteria, Music, Music and Emotions, Antibodies, Fifty News

Listening to Mozart probably won't make you smarter but music can positively influence your brain in other ways. If you listen to soothing music, for ...

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Artists' Famous Last Words

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Final Word, Oscar Wilde, Marx, Raphael, Karl Marx, Da Vinci, Famous Last Words, Sam Cooke, Van Gogh, Picasso, Death, Dali, Mozart, Leonardo, Freddie Mercury, Artist Last Words, Arts News

While great art lives forever, great artists don't. And aside all of the panic, pain and stress death brings, there is also the pressure to come out w...

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London Philharmonic Plays Video Game Music

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Philharmonic, Video, Mozart, London Philharmonic, Video Game Classics, Call of Duty, London Orchestra, World of Warcraft, Angry Birds, UK Arts, London, Zelda, Arts News

What do Brahms and Super Mario have in common? Aside from equally impressive facial hair, they have now both had their music played by the London Phil...

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Review: Così Fan Tutte at L.A. Opera

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Opera Review, Los Angeles Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart Opera, Mozart, LA Opera, La Around Town, James Conlon, Ashley Dean, Los Angeles News

The current L.A. Opera production of Così Fan Tutte, Mozart's exquisitely problematic farce, is a special joy, and should be added it to the opera lover's not-to-be-missed list for the fall season.

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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The Lesser Basilica

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Havana's San Francisco Convent, Mozart, Bach, Simple Symphony, Benjamin Britten, Cuba, Havana Chamber Orchestra, Latino Voices News

Many Havanans have found, in these newly reconstructed sites, a place for strolling, taking their children, sitting in the shade of a bougainvillea. What was, a few decades ago, a neighborhood in ruins, today is a true island of comfort and beauty.

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Mostly Mozart

Howard Kissel | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Mozart, Mostly Mozart, Frank Sinatra, Lincoln Center, Great American Songbook, Arts News

We owe Lincoln Center's annual festival focusing on the works of Mozart in part to Sinatra. It all goes back over 40 years to a time when Philharmonic Hall (as it was then called) was new and prestigious.

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Why Is Mozart A Religious Experience?

Michael Graziano | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Neuroscience and Music, Music and Spirituality, Music and Faith, God Soul Mind Brain, Religion and Science, Neuroscience and Spirituality, Religion and Music, Atheism and Religion, Classical Music, Neuroscience and Religion, Mozart, Consciousness, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Music and Brain, Social Neuroscience, Music and Religion, Religion News

As a scientist and an atheist, how can I come to terms with my own spiritual reverence toward some instances of music?

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Malkovich's Operatic Swagger: Mozart At Versailles And More

Laurence Vittes | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Puccini, Opera, Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo, The Knights, Radiohead, Versailles, Malkovich, Mozart, Beethovenhead, Arts News

New York Knights aka Beethovenhead? Saturday, June 18, 7 pm Trinity Church, Southport Summer Music Festival When Trinity Church's choirs and soloists...

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PHOTOS: Haiku Reviews: Mythology, Twinkies and Iraq

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Peter Frank, Twinkies, Haikus, Theater, George Heymont, Music, Los Angeles, Art Galleries, Iraq War, Mozart, Video, Laurence Vittes, Mythology, Iraq, Haiku Reviews, San Francisco, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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Maybe Classical Music Isn't Dying

Howard Kissel | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Leontyne Price, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Classical Music, Mozart, Victor Borge, Ave Maria, Bach, Carnegie Hall, Arts News

Some time ago, while looking at old newspapers from 1954 in the morgue of the Daily News, I spotted, next to the article I needed, a tiny item telling...

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Jeremy Denk Meets Gustavo and Beethoven on the Hill at Mouse Hall

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dudamel, Beethoven Piano Concertos, Denk, Mouse Hall, LA Philharmonic, Mozart, Jeremy Denk, La Around Town, Gustavo Dudamel, Michele Zukovsky, Arts News

Music Director of the LA Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel seemed ill at ease and uncertain Sunday afternoon in a program of Mozart and Beethoven.

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