Cal Performances presents American Modern Opera Company in the U.S. premiere of its production of Olivier Messiaen’s “Harawi” ...

It brought us Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony, a vast, 10-movement work for an orchestra so large that there almost wasn’t room for the augmented, percussion-laden forces even in the ...

Meet Olivier Messiaen – the bird-mad composer who used birdsong to create some of the most startlingly original music of all time. It all started in springtime... in a prisoner of war camp ...

Poet Michael Symmons Roberts gets to the heart of composer Olivier Messiaen's obsession with birdsong in this imaginative sonic trip through drama, music and poetry. Show more Poet Michael Symmons ...

Probably the only classical composer to have a mountain named after him (Mount Messiaen, Utah, 1978), Messiaen is among the most strikingly individual of 20th-century composers. Probably the only ...

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M usic by Olivier Messiaen and George Frideric Handel, a new stage work by South African artist William Kentridge and the debut of the Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo are planned to contribute ...

It performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics and has recorded pieces by famed composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez and Dmitri Shostakovich. BY SHIN MIN-HEE [[email protected]] ...

In March 1945, the classical music world in Paris split into warring camps after the premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s two-hour devotional suite for solo piano, Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus. The ...

Messiaen wrote his La nativité du Seigneur (‘The Nativity of the Lord’) in the summer of 1935 while on an extended sojourn to the French Alps. The piece is a series of religious frescos, a ...