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Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high
The transition from America’s roof to below sea level seemed not to faze the musicians at all, as music director Bahman Saless led the 42-player ensemble in his own composition, the five-minute ...
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Stellar second cast continues the bel canto delights in Met’s “Barber of Seville”
A new tenor is in town. In her Met role debut, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was an equally dazzling Rosina, full of fun ...
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Noisy and pastoral love vie in mixed Philharmonic program
The wordless singing of the New York Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather, put a human presence in the ...
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Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra” serves up banal bread and circuses in Met debut
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...
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Heartbeat Opera wraps its slenderized “Faust” in light and shadow
A twig and a flashlight were all it took to project Marguerite’s garden onto the scenery in shadows. In a particularly ...
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Stars come out with Mutter and friends at Carnegie Hall
Tchaikovsky was a model to his Russian successors in many ways, but the most distinctive—and the most Russian—thing he bequeathed to them was the genre of the “elegiac trio,” which has been taken up ...
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Bruckner emerges best in mixed German program by Young, Philharmonic
On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program looks like a smoothly integrated survey of 19th century German ...
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Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura
Elza van den Heever in the title role and Peter Mattei as Jochanaan in Strauss’s Salome at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera ...
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Met’s new “Figaro” cast adds seasoning, comedic spark to superb vocalism
Those are in the form of bass-baritones Luca Pisaroni and Adam Plachetka as Figaro and Count Almaviva. Not only are these two likely the best contemporary singers in those roles, and veterans of each, ...
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A rich and remarkable cast makes for a cherishable “Cesare” with English Concert
Christophe Dumaux and Louise Alder in the English Concert’s performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Fadi Kheir For any classical musician or ensemble to take ...