Some, at Cleveland Opera Theater's free concert Sunday at Dunham Tavern, will hang on every note. Everyone else, meanwhile, will just soak up the vibe, along with gourmet food and wine, and …
If any artist in Cleveland ranks as a national treasure, surely it's choreographer Dianne McIntyre. The Doris Duke Artist Award she received last month, the latest in a string of high-level …
For its 2016 season beginning June 18, Ohio Light Opera has planned an eclectic mix of obscure works from deep within the German, French and American songbooks as well as first-time performa…
Saturday night at the Ohio Theatre, Opera Circle concluded its season with a new production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore," restructuring the work as a sequence of eight scenes that emp…
For its last production of the season, Cleveland's Opera Circle is expanding considerably, taking on a score -- Verdi's "Il Trovatore" -- that demands its utmost on every front.
Citing the creation of an environment in which it would be "impossible for me to continue," soprano and Cleveland Opera Theater founder Andrea Anelli this week announced that she h…
The new version of "Coppelia" presented by the new Cleveland Ballet Friday night at Ohio Theatre was promising evidence of a company eager and able to do great things.
In mounting a new version of "Coppelia," the new Cleveland Ballet is taking a big next step, declaring its independence and proving it can make its own magic.
Even as many probably could have followed along to "Revelations," the signature work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, none could have been prepared for the vitality of the pe…
Just as Cleveland Opera Theater strives to be pragmatic and sustainable as a company, so is the troupe injecting a healthy dose of reality into its upcoming production of Puccini's "La …
For its first appearances in Cleveland since 2012, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater has planned a veritable feast of dance: three different programs showcasing a huge variety of new and recent work…
Collaborating for a third time, the Cleveland Play House and Cleveland Orchestra are about to present "The Good Peaches," by Quiara Alegria Hudes, a rare new play for actors and mu…
The 2016 edition of DanceWorks at Cleveland Public Theatre offers a bit of the new -- an overlap with DanceCleveland -- as well as presentations by MorrisonDance, Verb Ballets and Inlet Danc…
In staging "A Streetcar Named Desire," the operatic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams classic by Andre Previn, Cleveland Opera Theater is stressing its conviction that opera is …
More than just another world premiere, the new Concerto for Two Violas being presented this week by the Cleveland Orchestra signifies the culmination of a long musical bond between composer …
Her response to years of inadequate representation, Camille A. Brown's new dance work "Black Girl" aims to set the record straight about African-American women and people in genera…
Instead of ease and fluidity, the company once known as Oberlin Dance Collective Saturday will pay homage in "Boulders and Bones" to the effort and complexity of making art.
The company may now be known as Cleveland Opera Theater, but in its heart, its goal with an "Opera al Fresco" concert Sunday remains bound up with its former identity: opera for al…
The country's second National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron is developing a small but significant cultural industry, welcoming artists from all over and enabling them to…
National Dance Day isn't a major holiday. No matter. DanceCleveland is celebrating big. In honor of both the special day and its own 60th anniversary, the distinguished presenter Saturday is…
Despite setting out with GroundWorks DanceTheater seeking nothing in particular, guest choreographer Eric Michael Handman found exactly what he wanted to contribute to the company's upcoming…
The Cleveland Orchestra plans a grand return to New York's Lincoln Center Festival July 15-18 with two concert performances of Strauss' opera "Daphne" and two highly eclectic progr…
When CityMusic Cleveland convenes with star singer Heather Headley May 28 and 29 for "Wishes and Dreams," a special season finale devoted to child homelessness, jaws are certain dr…
With its production of Puccini's "Tosca" last weekend, the newly re-branded Cleveland Opera Theater proved it has the knowledge and potential to serve as the region's primary opera…
Even as it prepares a full-scale production of Puccini's "Tosca," its largest effort to date, Cleveland Opera Theater - formerly known as Opera Per Tutti - is advancing rapidly wit…