ON Stage is the cultural magazine of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, and features authoritative stories on the performing arts.
News
While pianist Maria João Pires and violinist and conductor Augustin Dumay – who are returning to the NCPA to perform for the SOI Spring 2020 Season – are individually revered for their outstanding musical capabilities, it is when they share the stage that something quite out of the ordinary happens. By Freyan
News
Dr. Jamshed Bhabha’s keen desire to give India a top-notch cultural complex has resulted in a mighty oak that has supported countless artistes under its canopy. Initiatives undertaken at the NCPA in the recent years and the vision for its future only strengthen the organisation’s raison d’être.
Interviews
What is it about French music that makes it truly French? ON Stage speaks to conductor and composer Laurent Petitgirard and pianist Jean-Philippe Collard ahead of their performances with the Symphony Orchestra of India to find out more. By Beverly Pereira French classical music was perhaps eclipsed by the music
Music Education
“So how exactly do you become a conductor?” Ever since I first earned enough money from conducting to allow me to keep at least one nostril above water and to subsist on a diet not limited exclusively to the darker root vegetables, it is a question I have found myself
Throwback Thursday
The NCPA celebrates the golden jubilee of its contribution to the cultural life of Mumbai, and India. Chairman Khushroo N. Suntook on his memories of its founding, the personalities who nurtured it, its thriving present and the road ahead. Fifty years ago, Dr. Jamshed Bhabha created the National Centre for
News
With a wide-ranging repertoire that marks its first foray into French music, the Indian premiere of a concerto with a message and the return of two celebrated international artistes, the SOI’s upcoming season promises to be a rare treat. By Snigdha Hasan ‘Coming of age’ – its literal meaning aside
Interviews
There will be double the revelry at the Artie’s Festival this month, when the chamber music event lends its unique brand of mirth and light-heartedness to the NCPA’s joyous golden jubilee celebrations. We speak to Artie’s founder Gauthier Herrmann to find out more. By Beverly Pereira The
News
A series of Indian and Western music recitals by young musicians, who have been training with the NCPA, will be presented as part of the NCPA Add Art Festival. As part of its mission to promote and preserve the arts in India, the NCPA takes great joy in training and
News
In the days leading up to the NCPA Add Art Festival, audiences can delight in, among other things, a series of performances that will see world-class opera stars from the Bolshoi collaborate with our very own Symphony Orchestra of India. By Zane Dalal Though it may seem highly unusual for
News
To commemorate 50 years of creating, curating and nurturing the performing arts, the NCPA is celebrating the philosophy of ‘adding art’ in daily life through its ADD ART Festival. In other words, it is doing what it has always done – only bigger, better and in a way that is completely
Throwback Thursday
In the 50th year of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) featured masterworks of the 17th and 18th centuries. The SOI Autumn 2019 Season opened with two concerti for violin, piano, and strings, performed by SOI’s Music Director Marat Bisengaliev and
Meet the Maestro
The new resident conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of India wants to ask you if he’s made a mistake. By Mikel Toms Not long ago, I came across a drawing on a well-known social media site. “THE CHICKEN GAME!” it trumpeted. My curiosity was piqued. The rules of the