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Countertenor John Holiday performs the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s work, inspired by the gathering that helped spark the Harlem Renaissance. 

Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank. 

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's presentation of El último sueño de Frida y Diego brings the Mexican artists to life... or at least a life reminiscent of their real ones.

Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

Lorena Maza's vibrant production of Gabriela Lena Frank's 2021 opera about Frida Kahlo and her relationship with Diego Rivera reaches Los Angeles.

The Philadelphia Orchestra closed its season by pairing Berlioz's epic Symphonie Fantastique with Walkabout, a concerto for orchestra that investigates composer-in-residence Frank's Peruvian heritage.

Prior to the Russian composers Symphony no. 5, Yannick Nézet-Séguin offered a moving musical tribute to the Ukrainian people.

The program paired works of two living female composers with a suite of selections from Porgy and Bess, featuring star soprano Angel Blue.

Poor Ravel. He was expelled from the Conservatoire; he was consistently rejected for the Prix de Rome; he never married. Along with his contemporaries Stravinsky, Debussy and Satie, he made enormous strides in 20th-century music, but is unfortunately remembered best (when at all) for the plodding fifteen minutes of his 1928 composition Boléro.

What happens when you sit two internationally acclaimed piano soloists down at one piano? In the case of ZOFO, the San Francisco based piano-four-hands ensemble, you get something energetically and electrifyingly out of this world. And when you throw five unique world premiere works into the mix, the resulting combination is even more impressive.