LA Opera's next production St. Matthew Passion will open March 12, 2022, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. LA Opera's music director James Conlon conducts with choreographer John Neumeier staging ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Jaap van Zweden is not known for Bach. But the “St. Matthew Passion” made for one of his finest New York Philharmonic concerts this ...

The Academy of Ancient Music’s St Matthew Passion at the Barbican yesterday was an example of the latter and was up there with the best, if not perhaps benefiting from the acoustic of Edinburgh’s ...

Some deaths are more sacramental than others. Something about the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the inescapable sense of fundamental innocence being crucified, lent the tragic event a power no ...

With an augmented orchestra and their regular chamber choir and orchestra joined onstage by Ex Cathedra’s Academy of Vocal Music - Ex Cathedra’s strand for young singers - and members of various ...

A man of the church, not the theater, Bach did not write for dance. But dance was at his core. His instrumental suites, partitas and concertos, made of dance forms, can include some of the most ...

Soloists Anna Fredericka Popova and Nicholas Garza perform during The Dallas Bach Society presentation of Bach's Passion According to Saint Matthew at the Meyerson Symphony Center on March 26, 2018 in ...

Palm Sunday is the only time during the year that a Mass has two Gospels. Because this is “Palm Sunday,” there can be at the beginning of Mass a formal processional entrance into the church, bearing ...

Read the author's column on the Palm Sunday readings. Trials make compelling entertainment. We revere To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men. John Grisham’s and James Patterson’s names appear larger ...