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With a brilliant cast and edgy staging, Lyric Opera scores a triumph in “Don Giovanni” – Sep 30, 2014
One major initiative of Anthony Freud, general director of the Lyric […]
Festive inaugural concert ushers in the Nelsons era for Boston Symphony Orchestra – Sep 30, 2014
Saturday’s gala inaugural concert by and for Andris Nelsons as music […]
Mariusz Kwiecien in his signature role with Lyric Opera of Chicago’s “Don Giovanni” – Sep 30, 2014
It’s a good thing “stand and deliver” is no longer the […]
Netrebko tears it up in the Met’s riveting, well-sung “Macbeth” – Sep 26, 2014
Opera, as we know, is not just about the singing. To […]
New York Philharmonic gets down to business with Mahler, Chin premiere – Sep 25, 2014
After last week’s peculiar gala concert, the New York Philharmonic was […]
No class (struggle) act but terrific cast shines in Met’s season-opening “Figaro” – Sep 24, 2014
After a summer of difficult and often hostile wrangling over labor […]
Muti, Chicago Symphony open new season with a mixed Beethoven Ninth – Sep 22, 2014
In the 190 years since Beethoven conducted the premiere of his […]
Chicago Opera Theater’s worthy revival of Bloch’s “Macbeth” undone by unkind cuts – Sep 15, 2014
The Andreas Mitisek era at Chicago Opera Theater has been one […]
Grand singing in SFO’s “Norma” rises above baffling staging – Sep 12, 2014
Finally—Norma, the forestry version. San Francisco Opera’s batting average has been […]
San Francisco Opera delivers a powerful and visually striking “Susannah” – Sep 10, 2014
It was an affecting sight to see the 88-year-old Carlisle Floyd […]
