A dilettante at large Toby Zinman reviews Candide by Leonard Bernstein.

She pleases, she teases, and she appeases.

Theater critic extraordinaire Toby Zinman continues her forays into other art forms with a visit to Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theatre to see two one-act operas presented by the Curtis Opera Theatre

Stay with us; for it is toward evening and the day is spent.

The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra

The Sketchbook Reporter checked out a musical adventure from Dot Matrix.

Toby Zinman feels the Japanese rhythms of KODO drum troupe.

The Philly Pops roused the rhythm and blues, and the classical and traditional on the same stage.

Sketching the orchestra

Visually, musically, and vocally gorgeous, this is a delectable MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.

Benjamin Britten’s music still sounds wonderfully imaginative and modern

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a Musical Fund Society Series with Xavier Foley, Sejoon Park, and Eunice Kim

The exquisite program notes took the audience as close to the sixteenth century French Noel midnight mass as possible

The Heath Quartet plays Tippett, Britten, and Purcell

Mario Lopez and Daphne Rubin-Vega lead a group of Broadway performers lending their voices to a new “Get Out the Vote” music video

What a complicated evening, filled with gorgeous singing and roiled emotions and puzzling theatrics

The show literally ROCKS!

An imaginatively textured musical performance in which music, sounds, and speaking are of a piece

A bittersweet lament on war’s insidious effects

Les Canards Chantants (“the singing ducks”), a renaissance polyphony voice ensemble, was born in England but is now based in Philadelphia.