Teatro Lirico di Cagliari ended its 2019 season with Hänsel und Gretel, which ran from Dec 13-22, 2019. The award winning design was created at Teatro Alla Scala, in 2017, and the design of the opera won the XXXVII "Franco Abbiati" Music Critics Award for scenes, costumes, lights and videos: "for the courageous account of the social poverty of the present through the fable of Hänsel und Gretel, ennobled in the perfect balance of realism and poetry, in a magical show of rare technical perfection". Conducted by Johannes Debus; Direction by Sven-Eric Bechtolf , scenic design by Julian Crouch; costumes by Kevin Pollard; lights by Marco Filibeck ; projection by Joshua Higgason, choreographic movements by Luigia Frattaroli.  More information.

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. 

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”