Performances
Covering for Dessay, Hong scales the heights in Met’s “Traviata” – Apr 07, 2012
What does an opera singer need to grab the headlines? Nowadays, she might need a personality disorder, an army of hyperventilating hucksters, or a [...]
Lugansky makes triumphant Chicago Symphony debut with powerhouse Rachmaninoff – Apr 07, 2012
Back for his annual Chicago Symphony Orchestra visit, Charles Dutoit opened his two-week stand Thursday with a late Romantic program coupling two big showpieces [...]
Met’s tacky, indifferently sung “Manon” needs something like a prayer – Mar 27, 2012
The droves of patrons who ran for the exits after the third act of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Manon missed the show’s [...]
With insight and sensitivity, Uchida scales the challenge of Schubert’s late sonatas – Mar 26, 2012
If Shostakovich’s string quartets contain his most personal music, for Schubert, the composer’s deepest, most interior thoughts are found in his last piano sonatas. In [...]
Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony provide dynamic advocacy for mixed “Mavericks’ program – Mar 22, 2012
When most orchestras go on tour, they usually bring a star soloist, along with a play-it-safe program of populist Late Romantic barn-burners, the better [...]
Hampson shines darkly in Met’s haunting “Macbeth” – Mar 21, 2012
The coupling of Shakespearean drama and Verdian musical prowess is one that opera fans only wish had happened more often. With Otello and Falstaff, [...]
Sarasota Opera presents a handsome, mostly effective “Vanessa” – Mar 20, 2012
As important and ambitious as Sarasota Opera’s long-running cycle of Verdi’s complete works has been, the company’s new American Classics series may well prove [...]
New York City Opera serves up an intimate and compelling “Così” – Mar 19, 2012
When New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel announced that the financially ravaged company was leaving the “travertine fastness” of [...]
Tenor Davila brings electrifying intensity to Sarasota Opera’s “Otello” – Mar 18, 2012
At long last, Otello. It’s taken 23 years for Sarasota Opera’s Verdi cycle to finally reach the composer’s late masterwork. Part of the problem [...]
Kim’s bravura performance strikes sparks in Sarasota Opera’s “Lucia” – Mar 18, 2012
After Friday night’s dismal Carmen at Sarasota Opera, there was nowhere to go but up with Saturday’s Donizetti matinee. And while not quite a [...]
