Performances
Met Young Artist shows world-class artistry in Miami recital – May 16, 2013
Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov offered a generous sampling of Russian and Italian opera arias and songs by German, French, Russian and Italian composers in [...]
Met’s “Carmelites” closes season with devastating radiance – May 06, 2013
An early decree of France’s revolutionary government concerned opera: the prohibition of public singing by castrati, seen as “unnatural” creatures fatally bound up with [...]
Memorable Brahms and Mahler with MTT, Tetzlaff and New World Symphony – Apr 29, 2013
Music of Brahms and Mahler is hardly terra incognito but when you have musicians of the caliber of Michael Tilson Thomas, Christian Tetzlaff and [...]
Fleming soars in premiere of new song cycle at Carnegie Hall – Apr 27, 2013
Last night Renée Fleming gave the next-to-last concert in her Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” residency, part of a season that had a retrospective feeling to [...]
Hampson, Jupiter Quartet eloquent in Adamo premiere, Wolf songs – Apr 27, 2013
The peripatetic baritone Thomas Hampson came to New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall Friday night with a string quartet in tow and an East Coast [...]
Met closes Ring cycle with a grand and satisfying “Götterdämmerung” – Apr 24, 2013
No walls come tumbling down in Robert Lepage’s staging of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, revived Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan Opera. The twirling planks of [...]
Kissin’s Boston recital moves from cool flame to artistic fire – Apr 23, 2013
At about the two-thirds mark in Evgeny Kissin’s piano recital Sunday afternoon, the performance seemed to turn an invisible corner, and the concert became [...]
Director Alden once again snatches defeat from jaws of victory with clumsy, tedious staging of NYCO’s “Périchole” – Apr 22, 2013
If only Christopher Alden’s gag-choked production of La Périchole had exhibited even a trace of Gallic wit or sparkle, the three-hour farce might have seemed [...]
Met’s Ring cycle reaches crushing speed with superb “Siegfried” – Apr 21, 2013
Richard Wagner’s Siegfried, revived at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday, had a famously fitful editorial history. Between 1851, when Wagner began sketching the drama [...]
Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden and Batiashvili serve up memorable afternoon of Brahms – Apr 16, 2013
There may be older orchestras extant in the world today, but surely there are none with the storied history, esteemed pedigree and international profile [...]
