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Mabeline: The Greenaissance Tour (Philadelphia)
Are you ready for The Greenaissance? Pop diva Mabeline is back and greener than ever, kicking off her world tour in Philly with an electrifying set blending viral hits including “My Patina” and “Green Light” with holiday classics like you’ve never heard them before. The Grinch's ex-wife is bringing the heat to the coldest time of year with dazzling visuals, dynamic dancers, and surprise guest appearances from Whoville and Philly legends. Whether you love or hate the season, grab your friends, deck yourselves out in green, and get ready to scream for the Real Green Goddess—Mabeline! Let The Greenaissance begin!
Davóne Tines: Queering the Mass (SF)
Pioneering bass-baritone and creator Davóne Tines queers the catholic mass by transforming it into a non-denominational structure for dealing with human problems. About the program, The New Yorker says “In a matter of minutes, we had traversed multiple centuries and worlds, yet all the music was filtered through the taut resonance of one voice: a timbre at once grand and fraught, potent and vulnerable.” Join Davóne along with his band THE TRUTH (John Bitoy, piano and Khari Lucas, sound artist and electric bass) as they weave classical, gospel, baroque, jazz, and opera into a journey of personal reckoning.
Davóne Tines and The Truth (Brussels)
The American bass-baritone Davóne Tines, who wowed last season’s audience at Bozar in the title role of Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian, is back with a remarkable recital accompanied by his band The Truth. Anyone who has attended a Tines recital in the past will know better than to expect a traditional performance. Tines opts for a lavish mixture of opera, lieder, spirituals and protest music to tell a profoundly personal story. In his latest project, Recital No. 2: Robeson, Tines explores his connection with Paul Robeson. This singer and activist, who attempted suicide in a hotel bathroom during his political exile in Moscow, claimed that the CIA had poisoned him with LSD. This shocking event opened the door for Tines to a personal exploration of a man to whom he has compared himself throughout his life.
Davóne Tines
bass-baritone
Khari Lucas
electric bass
John Bitoy
piano
Davóne Tines and The Truth (London)
Davóne Tines and The Truth’s new work ROBESON explodes the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson alongside pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas.
Devised with director Zack Winokur, it premiered to huge acclaim last year in New York. Tynes reimagines Robeson’s signature anthems of protest, resilience, and reassurance. He both confronts the singer’s point zero and holds up a shattered mirror to the American dream, taking listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon through his vulnerability.
Recital #1: MASS (Miami)
As “one of the most powerful voices of our time,” Davóne Tines is “changing what it means to be a classical singer” (Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker). After a sold-out NWS debut in 2022, Davóne Tines returns to perform Recital No. 1: Mass, his celebrated song cycle that puts Bach in conversation with Margaret Bonds, Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw.
El Niño - AMOC @ St. John the Divine
As part of the Cathedral’s traditional holiday programming, the American Modern Opera Company will once again perform El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with music by John Adams, musical arrangements by Christian Reif, libretto compilation by Peter Sellars, and concept by AMOC* member Julia Bullock, which is an eclectic retelling of the Nativity story celebrating Latin American poets and the voices of women. The reimagined piece will return for a one-night-only engagement.
El Niño - Gälve Symphony Orchestra
After the success in New York, these captivating voices of Gävle - soprano Julia Bullock, mezzo-soprano Rachael Wilson, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and bass-baritone Davóne Tines - will be intertwined in this powerful contemporary oratorio.
El Niño - Munich Radio Orchestra
Making the large-scale "opera oratorio" by the well-known American minimal music composer John Adams from 2000 available for concert performances is the merit of Christian Reif, who comes from Bavaria and regularly conducts in the USA. As an indispensable companion during the creation process and at numerous performances of the arrangement, the American soprano Julia Bullock will also be on the podium for Paradisi gloria.
Music Mondays: Davóne Tines & the PUBLIQuartet (NYC)
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, L A Times) shares a new version of his MASS project together with PUBLIQuartet, the multi-GRAMMY®-nominated improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. MASS explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses: following the format of a Christian liturgy, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc.
Harlem Chamber Players - The Annual Bach Concert
PROGRAM
This concert will feature all music by J.S. Bach:
Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor, BWV 1060R
Concerto for Oboe d’amore in A Major, BWV 1055
"Komm, süsses Kreuz, so will ich sagen" from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
"Betrachte, meine Seel" from St. John Passion, BWV 245
"Quia fecit mihi magna" from Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243
“Mache dich, mein Herze rein” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244
Sinfonia from Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21
Sinfonia from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
Sinfonia from Der Herr denket an uns, BWV 196
Ricercar a 6 from Musikalisches Opfer, BWV 1079
Ming Mei Residency: Everything Rises @ Harvard
Join us for an evening with Davóne Tines and Jennifer Koh, as they discuss their collaborative work Everything Rises. The work is a collective exploration of family history—telling the stories of Koh’s mother, Gertrude Soonja Lee Koh, a refugee from North Korea during the Korean War, and Tines’s grandmother, Alma Lee Gibbs Tines, who holds vivid memories of anti-Black discrimination and violence dating back many years. These experiences—of the artists and their families—are both the inspiration for and subject matter of this project. Developed over multiple years by an all-BIPOC creative team including composer Ken Ueno and director Alexander Gedeon, the project powerfully reclaims Koh and Tines’ narratives about who they are and how they got to where they are now.
CODED at Connecticut college
Harry Burleigh | Set of songs arr. Alex Fortes
Robert MacGimsey | Sweet Little Jesus Boy arr. Alex Fortes
Antonín Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”, arr. Sarah Darling
Tyshawn Sorey | Songs of Death for Bass Baritone and Strings (world premiere)
Frederick Tillis | Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, II. Wade in the Water arr. Francesca McNeeley
Curated by Crier Megumi Stohs Lewis and Davóne Tines
A Far Cry and “the must-hear” bass-baritone Davóne Tines collaborate around the legacy of Black spirituals and their ongoing survival by way of code-switching. We’ll explore the work of Harry T. Burleigh, whose groundbreaking arrangements of spirituals, and influential relationship with Antonín Dvořák, helped shape our country’s musical identity and cement the spiritual as one of America’s most significant and inherently complicated forms of music. Featuring a new work from 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, along with Frederick Tillis’ seminal Wade in the Water from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, CODED uncovers the intended messages of the people who birthed these songs, revealing their hidden metaphors, and how those hidden meanings continue to compound and evolve.
CODEd - A Far Cry Orchestra
Harry Burleigh | Set of songs arr. Alex Fortes
Robert MacGimsey | Sweet Little Jesus Boy arr. Alex Fortes
Antonín Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”, arr. Sarah Darling
Tyshawn Sorey | Songs of Death for Bass Baritone and Strings (world premiere)
Frederick Tillis | Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, II. Wade in the Water arr. Francesca McNeeley
Curated by Crier Megumi Stohs Lewis and Davóne Tines
A Far Cry and “the must-hear” bass-baritone Davóne Tines collaborate around the legacy of Black spirituals and their ongoing survival by way of code-switching. We’ll explore the work of Harry T. Burleigh, whose groundbreaking arrangements of spirituals, and influential relationship with Antonín Dvořák, helped shape our country’s musical identity and cement the spiritual as one of America’s most significant and inherently complicated forms of music. Featuring a new work from 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey, along with Frederick Tillis’ seminal Wade in the Water from Spiritual Fantasy No. 12, CODED uncovers the intended messages of the people who birthed these songs, revealing their hidden metaphors, and how those hidden meanings continue to compound and evolve.
Davóne Tines + THE TRUTH ft. D-Composed: ROBESON
D-Composed Ensemble Members
Caitlin Edwards, violin
Khelsey Zarraga, violin
Wilfred Farquharson, viola
Tahirah Whittington, cello
In ROBESOИ, Davóne Tines reimagines Paul Robeson’s musical repertoire as the soundtrack to a fever dream in a Moscow hotel room. In order to take on this expansive psychological and aesthetic space, Tines created a band called The Truth alongside bassist and sound artist Khari Lucas and pianist John Bitoy. The score is comprised exclusively of songs Robeson sang — across gospel, classical, Broadway, and folk music — but in new arrangements and interpretations that shape-shift and time-travel through styles and genres to fully explore the material’s connection to Tines’ own work and our time. The piece is conceived and staged by Zack Winokur and will be released as an album by Nonesuch Records.
Tines is joined by D-Composed, a Chicago-based creative incubator which acts as a bridge between the past and present to the future of representation, music-centered experiences, and the communal power of Black composers and their impact. Merging the worlds of contemporary music and classical, the ensemble also has collaborated with Jamila Woods during her appearance on The Late Show with Stepen Colbert and with hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper.
Davóne tines + the truth: ROBESON - LA premiere
DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH present the album ROBESOИ. In Tines’ solo recording debut, the musician grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines and his band THE TRUTH — pianist John Bitoy and sound artist Khari Lucas — take listeners on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the floor of a Moscow hotel room in an attempt to understand an icon not through aspiring to his monumentality, but through connecting to his vulnerability.
The album’s sprawling and kaleidoscopic musical landscape brings together elements of classical, funk, Fauré, gospel, John Adams, r&b Shakespeare, and Bach. Tines says of ROBESOИ, which he co-created with director Zack Winokur, “This album is my most personal artistic statement to date. I’ve endeavored to compare and contrast my journey as an artist with that of my artistic ancestor and hero, Paul Robeson, the unparalleled singer, actor, and activist. Standing on his beliefs of egality for the disenfranchised led to governmental and public attacks that almost ended his life. This album is the fever dream of the universal journey to battle internal and external persecution in order to find one’s self and decide what you need to say the most now that you’ve survived.”
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 Tanglewood
August 24th Open rehearsal ticket link
August 25th Ticket link
The Ninth Symphony, forming and dissolving before our ears in its beauty and terror and simplicity and complexity, is itself Beethoven’s embrace for the millions, from East to West, high to low, naive to sophisticated.
PS21 House Blend IV
A double bill: Bonnie Whiting performs Wang Lu‘s Stages for solo speaking/singing percussionist, with stage design by Polly Apfelbaum, and Frederic Rzewski‘s To the Earth for speaking percussionist and four flower pots. Plus bass-baritone Davóne Tines singing Eastman Evensong
Skaneateles Festival - Recital #1 MASS w Dover Quartet
This premiere performance of new collaboration between bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“one of the most powerful voices of our time, L A Times) and the Dover Quartet explores spirituality and mysticism through varied cultural lenses. Following the format of a Catholic mass, Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in a single dramatic arc, an experience you won’t want to miss. “Davóne Tines is changing what it means to be a classical singer” (New Yorker).
Vail Dance Festival
Vail Dance Festival announces 2024 season, New York City Ballet star Sara Mearns and acclaimed choreographer Jamar Roberts to be Artists-In-Residence!
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Limón Dance Company, Colorado Ballet, DanceAspen, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance join individual artists from national and international companies for a season including 7 world premieres and 13 performances.
Beethoven's Ninth Lakes Area Music Festival
The season begins with our most epic and joyful journey yet, in a single performance of Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony. Christian Reif conducts the Orchestra in collaboration with a chorus of singers from the Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota, Brainerd High School, and the acclaimed Minneapolis-based choral ensemble, VocalEssence singing the powerful “Ode to Joy”.
ROBESON - NYC Premiere
All-star opera singer Davóne Tines grapples with the legacy of a hero. Exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson, Tines takes us on a trip from the stage of Carnegie Hall to a Moscow hotel room, in an attempt to understand an icon through his own words.
MOCA & The Industry - Comet/Poppea
The Comet / Poppea brings together seemingly disparate worlds connected by stories of cultural transformation. It juxtaposes Claudio Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea), an Italian opera from 1643 unfolding among the social divisions of ancient Rome; and the world premiere of The Comet, based on the 1924 science-fiction short story by sociologist and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Set in 1920s New York City, “The Comet” depicts a Black man and white woman as the only survivors after a comet hits Earth.
Presented on a turntable divided in two halves, these worlds unfold simultaneously, with the stage’s rotation creating a visual and sonic spiral for audiences—inviting associations, dissociations, collisions, and confluences.
El Niño - Houston Symphony
The vibrant and eclectic style of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams is paired with biblical verse, modern Spanish-language poetry, and more in this contemporary take on the Christmas story, uniquely told from a mother’s point of view. Experience the power of this spellbinding masterpiece, which in Adams’s words explores “what is meant by a miracle.”
The Metropolitan Opera - El Niño
Shows are at 7:30pm on: 4/23, 4/27, 5/1, 5/4, 5/8, 5/11, 5/17
Eminent American composer John Adams returns to the Met after a decade-long hiatus for the company premiere of his acclaimed opera-oratorio, which incorporates sacred and secular texts in English, Spanish, and Latin, from biblical times to the present day, in an extraordinarily dramatic retelling of the Nativity. El Niño brings together three of contemporary opera’s fiercest champions, all of whom make highly anticipated company debuts: Marin Alsop, one of the great conductors of our time, who has led more than 200 new-music premieres; soprano Julia Bullock, a leading voice on and off stage; and pathbreaking bass-baritone Davóne Tines. Radiant mezzo-sopranos J’Nai Bridges and Daniela Mack take turns completing the principal trio. The moving, fully-staged new production also marks the Met debut of Lileana Blain-Cruz, resident director at Lincoln Center Theater, who received universal acclaim for her Tony-nominated 2022 production of The Skin of Our Teeth.
Big Ears Festival - The TRUTH featuring Davóne Tines - Recital #2: Robeson
Heralded as a “singer of immense power and fervor” and “[one] of the most powerful voices of our time” by The Los Angeles Times, the “immensely gifted American bass-baritone Davóne Tines has won acclaim, and advanced the field of classical music” (The New York Times) through his work that blends opera, art song, contemporary classical, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest, as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance that connects to all of humanity. Called a “next generation leader” by Time Magazine and recently named Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of the Year, Tines is a path-breaking artist at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics. His projects include Recital No. 1: MASS, Concerto No. 1: SERMON, Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM, and Everything Rises, a multimedia musical work exploring artistic journeys and family histories, co-created with violinist Jennifer Koh. Tines makes his return to Big Ears Festival after his performance of “Were You There” with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra string section in 2018.
Hadrian - Brussels philharmonic
3/15 Antwerp ticket link
3/16 Brussels ticket link
3/17 Utercht ticket link
Rufus Wainwright is considered to be one of the world’s most astounding songwriters. For years, he has unleashed his talent on all facets of pop music, but opera is actually where his original passion lies. As a child, he forced his family members to act in Puccini’s Tosca. So it was written in the stars that he would throw himself into an opera one day. In 2009 he debuted with Prima Donna, commissioned by - among others - Sadler’s Wells in London. In 2018 came the long-awaited new piece: Hadrian.
Hadrian creates the story of the last day of the Roman Emperor who ruled from 117-138 AD. Hadrian seems best known for the building of the wall in Britannia that bears his name, and for his conflict with Judea against rise of monotheism. But he is mostly unknown for what might be his greatest legacy, his having lived openly as a homosexual and his deep, unshakable love for another man, Antinoos.
Brussels Philharmonic presents Wainwrights’ opera in a concert version, in which Davóne Tines gets under the skin of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Although this symphonic version will certainly be given an intriguing visual interpretation. With the help of images from photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, a completely fresh light will be shone on the iconic emperor, and the rousing emotions from Wainwright’s notes will be masterfully symbolised. After the interval, Wainwright himself will sing his most beautiful songs in an orchestral adaptation.
Detroit Opera - Europeras 3 & 4
Pioneering composer John Cage reassembles European opera tradition as a collage. Stage action and the music itself are directed by a digital Europeraclock in place of a conductor. You’ll still hear famous arias, layered in a whole new way in Cage’s entertaining collage. The return of live theater to the Gem for the first time in a decade!
St. Louis Symphony - Fauré Requiem
Voices soar to the rafters of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in a program led by Music Director Stéphane Denève. Opera stars Brenda Rae and Davóne Tines join the St. Louis Symphony Chorus in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, reflecting on eternal rest and consolation. Two tranquil pavanes by Fauré and Maurice Ravel invite introspection, accompanied by reverent selections by Charles Koechlin and Lili Boulanger.
The SLSO’s performance at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis is part of the Cathedral Concerts series.
The MET Museum - Handel: Made In America
George Frideric Handel was the it-boy of 18th-century England. His music spread across boundaries of genre and social class, making his operas, oratorios, and instrumental works wildly popular with the British masses. But Handel rose to fame atop the burgeoning British Empire, history's most influential global superpower, and in Georgian England, the same trading companies that underwrote arts and culture turned their profits from sinister activities: the trade of exotic goods and, most notably, enslaved people.
Through the lens of Handel's life and works, musician and storyteller Terrance McKnight (WQXR) leads an intimate and revealing journey about art, power, history, and family, weaving his own history as a young African-American man inspired by classical music with the story of Handel's world — and the money, power, and people that moved and were moved by it. Director Pat Eakin Young (La Celestina at The Met), conductor Malcolm Merriweather (The Ballad of the Brown King at The Met), and famed Handel scholar Ellen Harris complement a cast of star opera singers: soprano Latonia Moore, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, tenor Noah Stewart, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines.
De Doelen Concert Hall - Recital #1: MASS
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines is already a phenomenon in the United States, but still a rising star in Europe.
In the Netherlands, we know Davóne from Peter Sellar’s opera productions, including Girls of the Golden West and Only the Sound Remains. Recently, he started his first series of solo recitals, in which he chose the holy mass as his starting point. The New York Times described his recital as “a compelling reconceptualization of the recital format from an artist who molded his warm, strong voice like clay in a bracingly vulnerable, honest performance.”
String Quartet Amsterdam Biennale - Recital #1:MASS
Contrasting religious music styles from Western European, Afro-American, and 21st-century traditions converge in Mass, a concert designed as a Catholic mass. Each of these cultures approaches beauty in a different way, yet they all critically examine how we deal with personal problems in our lives.
Originally designed as a work for bass-baritone and piano by American opera singer Davóne Tines, Mass has been adapted for the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam with the Calder Quartet performing and the voice and string quartet merging organically. The design and direction of Mass are in the hands of Lisenka Heijboer Castañón, whose love of music is the foundation for telling a story.
AMOC - El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered Tour
12/11 Opera Omaha Ticket Link
12/13 Stanford Live Ticket link
12/15 Yale university Schwartzman Center Ticket link
12/21 cathedral of st. john the divine ticket link
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AMOC* celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women with its production of John Adams’s El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered with a tour across the United States. The piece, with a libretto by Peter Sellars and concept by AMOC* member Julia Bullock, will appear from December 11 to 21, 2023 at Harriman-Jewell Series in Liberty, Missouri; Stanford Live, Stanford, California; Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut before returning to The Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a second year.
El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered features AMOC* members soprano Julia Bullock, guest soloist contralto Jasmin White, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, violinists Keir GoGwilt and Miranda Cuckson, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, bassist Doug Balliett, flutist Emi Ferguson, pianist Conor Hanick, and percussionist Jonny Allen.
El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered will be conducted by Christian Reif, who created the new arrangement and premiered the initial, distilled arrangement as part of Julia Bullock’s residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where The New York Times called it “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism.” A rarely performed work, El Niño “explores the central themes of the nativity – miracles, the unique relationship between birthparent and child, and gift giving,” said Bullock, who curated the selections being performed.and whose ”voice and vision are forces to be reckoned with” (Opera News).
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra -El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered
In a new arrangement created by conductor Christian Reif, John Adams' massive revisionist opera-oratorio is transformed into an intimate setting for chamber orchestra. Interweaving biblical verse with poetry by Latin American writers, El Niño considers the Nativity story from Mary's perspective and explores in Adams' words, "what is meant by a miracle."
Saahriaho's True Fire - Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska returns to lead a Thanksgiving weekend of music that calls us home. Music drawn from the American heartland opens the program, with the beloved “Goin’ Home” theme from Dvořák’s New World Symphony, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and baritone Davóne Tines performing Saariaho’s True Fire, a work based on Native American texts and Emmerson’s Spiritual Laws. Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony provides a finale of sweeping and grand themes, evoking the spirit of Stasevska's own Finnish homeland.
McCarter Theater Center - Recital #1:MASS
A bass-baritone singer whom The New Yorker declared is “changing what it means to be a classical singer,” Davóne Tines and his powerful voice first made waves leading operas by Kaija Saariaho (Only the Sound Remains), Matthew Aucoin (Crossing), and Terence Blanchard (Fire Shut Up in My Bones). But the Harvard and Juilliard graduate—who sang some of his first notes with his Baptist church choir in Virginia—really started turning heads with carefully curated, avant-garde recitals such as "Recital No. 1: MASS," a deeply personal statement that finds a throughline between Bach and the Agnus Dei. Whether in conventional roles at opera houses or with his own works that push the boundaries of what we consider “classical,” Tines has undoubtedly established himself as one of the most exciting singers of his generation. For his performance in the Matthews Theater, Tines is accompanied by the Afro-Dominican pianist John Bitoy, who’s performed with both symphonies and Sigur Rós.