It’s All In The Detail – Madama Butterfly in Valencia

Valencia Opera’s new production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is utterly convincing. Here, Cio-Cio-san bevomes an assertive woman who knows her own mind, rather than a passive recipient of her her own tragedy. And this is achieved via an inspired production directed by Emilio Lopez. And it’s all done via convincing detail, not by radical transformation of the setting.

True R&B Music

The music industry has evolved over the years for the better certainly. Today’s recording artist are able to control their own songs and catalogs as long as they do not sell out. With the many gadgets and tools used today to make new sounds with certain programs;

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Vladimir Jurowski, Leonidas Kavakos in ADDA Alicante

Standard programme in the concert hall might not suggest surprises. Mozart Don Giovanni Overture, Brahms Violin concerto and Schubert’s Great C Major Symphony might sound a little predictable. But when Jurowski conducts and Kavakos is soloist, there is nothing humdrum about the experience.

Get the Best Music for Your (Guest’s) Ears

Professional musicians don’t use Fruity Loops to create incredible music. Whether its rock, pop, blues, jazz, classical or country, a musician has trained for years in their craft. That skill adds to the overall atmosphere of a wedding or some other celebration.

Joshua Bell, Alan Gilbert and NDR Orchestra Play Bruch And Bruckner In Alicante

The ADDA auditorium in Alicante hosted the NDR Elbphilharmonie under Alan Gilbert in Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with Joshua Bell as soloist. Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony followed. The experience reminds us that the sum is always greater than the parts, no matter how exalted they individually claim to be.

Esteemed Classical Violinist Xia Xia Zhang Now Available to Perform at Your Event

Xia Xia is looking forward to opportunities to perform at events in and around Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, Shreveport, Galveston, and New Orleans in the near future. She invites proposed opportunities for: Ensembles, Concertos, Solo Performances, Piano Accompanied Performances, Private Events, Opening Slots and Festivals.

Garcia Abril and Kallinikov in Alicante

It is not often that a seasoned concert goer is resented with a programme that features exclusively infrequently performed music, except when featuring new works. Alicante’s symphony orchestra did precisely this when it featured Garcia Abril and Kallinikov in a concert with Isabel Villanueva as soloist and Manuel Hernandez-Silva condicting.

The Loudest Bands In History: 10 Ear-Splitting Acts Who’ll Batter Your Brain With Sound

For decades, musicians have turned their amplifiers up to 11 in a quest to blow audiences away with their walls of sound. From old-school heavy metallers to cutting-edge electronica artists, bands across a range of genres have shredded eardrums, damaged buildings, and even caused earthquakes from the sonic booms they’ve produced. In this article, we’ve outlined 10 of the loudest bands in history, described the impact their audio assaults have had on their audiences and arenas, and detailed how each of them earned their reputation as ear-ringing soldiers of sound!

The 3 Most Relevant Artists Of The 1990s In 2021 And Beyond

If you’re a 90s kid, you may remember it as a time of incredible musical diversity. As bands faced growing pressure to do something different to stay ‘relevant’, the genres began to branch out. Where heavier music in the 80s mostly consisted of classic rock’n’roll and punk, now grunge, alternative rock, industrial, and metal came to the fore.

Costa Blanca Arts Update – A New Season In ADDA

Alicante’s Symphony Orchestra under Josep Vicent opens its new season with Shostakovich, Prokofiev and a Philip Glass Concerto played by the Lebeque sisters. The sound this orchestra creates is becoming a pure joy.

If Drums Were Lost

As a drum teacher I was asked recently by a student, what would it be like if there were no drums? It took me a minute or two to come up with an answer that could possibly explain the loss of what I do for an income/hobby, and more importantly what it would mean to music. It is hard to imagine life with out the rhythm we hear in our popular music. No rock and roll, blues, funk, disco, reggae, jazz as we know it as they all are rhythm based. It is almost unthinkable what the world itself would be like if the drums were gone…

PMR Music Contest 2018

It is a great opportunity for the potential, skilful, and creative singers to nourish their talent by performing in front of the whole world. Are you ready to participate in PMR Contest 2018?

Oscar Esplá – Music in Context

The music of Oscar Espla is little known in Spain, let alone elsewhere. He was born in Alicante in 1886 and died in Madrid in 1976, having lived in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and, for several years, in Belgium as an exile. The ADDA auditorium in Alicante has recently presented a series of concerts of his music, a series that began with two concerts, by Pedro Carbone and Marisa Blanes, that presented the composer’s piano music. Oscar Espla’s style in not immediately unique, but soon reveals itself as a highly original, highly personal achievement. His music deserves wider recognition and many more performances.

From Baroque To Rock: The Surprising Similarities Between Classical And Modern Music

With every new generation, a new musical genre is developed. Usually, it’s accompanied by shouts of ‘turn that racket down!’ from every older person in the vicinity.

A Moab Music Festival Concert To Tell Some Japanese American History

The Moab Music Festival at Moab, Utah, will have a concert to help tell some of the history about Japanese Americans during World War II. The story of the concert is about a confinement site at Moab which held Japanese American prisoners during World War II.