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Amjad Ali Khan is lauded for reinventing the technique of playing the sarod, the stringed instrument essential to Hindustani and Indian classical music. Using Ragas—rhythmic cycles of music—as the basis for his performances, Khan ensures that each concert experience is unique unto itself. For the first time, he brings his extraordinary style to Carolina Performing... Read More →
“A sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde.” —New York Times Featuring dozens of compositions by women around the globe—including Chen Yi, Meredith Monk, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Clara Schumann—pianist Sarah Cahill’s The Future is Female is both a ritual installation and communal feminist immersive listening experience. A “marathon” performance meant to... Read More →
“Michael Keegan-Dolan, who has a rare gift for transforming old ballets into new, has taken the 19th-century story and hammered it into a thing of wonder.” —The Observer Loch na hEala, by Irish choreographer, writer, and director Michael Keegan-Dolan, is a unique and transcendent new work inspired by a seminal classical ballet. This contemporary collision... Read More →
In its fifteenth season performing the holiday classic at Memorial Hall, Carolina Ballet returns with their dazzling production filled with beloved characters, grand magical illusions, and a live symphony orchestra.
“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.”—Washington Post Known for their fresh, creative perspective, PUBLIQuartet’s genre-bending programs range from 20th century masterworks to newly commissioned pieces. In Freedom and Faith, the string quartet celebrates underrepresented composers who have staked their places in history with virtuosity and power. Featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Meredith... Read More →
A new evening-length work created by flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim of Flutronix, Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti) is a celebration of some of Haiti’s most iconic yet under recognized female artists, through new musical arrangements and compositions for flute, string quartet, vocals, and electronics seamlessly interwoven with recorded interviews telling stories of political exile,... Read More →
How might our social, political, and cultural landscape be different if history had been written by the people of forgotten communities? Featuring stirring new music commissioned or curated by Cristina Pato (of the Silkroad Ensemble, Cristina Pato Quartet, and more) this brand new work by the internationally acclaimed Galician bagpiper and passionate educator explores this... Read More →
With its inspired use of dance, music, text, and visual design, Big Dance Theater returns to Carolina Performing Arts with Antigonick: a “popup play under construction” of renowned poet and classicist Anne Carson’s one-act, radical-feminist, philosophical take on Sophocles’ Antigone. Using Carson’s text, Annie-B Parson braids disparate strands into a multi-dimensional performance featuring the deft... Read More →
“The EVE Project celebrates female power.” –New York Times Martha Graham Dance Company returns to Carolina Performing Arts with stunning new works from The EVE Project, created in honor of the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment and featuring the work of women choreographers and composers. Alongside classic repertory highlighting Graham heroines and anti-heroines, The... Read More →
Baritone Lucia Lucas has emerged as a performer guaranteed to “shatter opera’s glass ceiling” (NewNowNext). The first known transgender opera singer to star in a lead role in the US, Lucas and her powerful voice have made waves at opera houses across the globe. Now, the critically acclaimed singer makes her Carolina Performing Arts debut.
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