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Updated Donizetti and Beethoven offer mixed results at Santa Fe Opera – Aug 06, 2014
It is an odd summer at the Santa Fe Opera, considering […]
American Music Project to launch with world premiere in Chicago – Aug 04, 2014
UPDATED [Read the New York Times article about the American Music […]
National Youth Orchestra’s impressive Carnegie stand shows the kids are alright – Jul 24, 2014
The first thought that comes to mind seeing over 100 teenagers […]
Susanna Mälkki makes resounding Ravinia debut with CSO – Jul 21, 2014
Midori may have been the marquee name for the Chicago Symphony […]
Caramoor Festival serves up bel canto rarity with Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” – Jul 15, 2014
Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia is one of the composer’s strongest works. It […]
Lyric Opera lifts the veil on its work-in-progress “Bel Canto” – Jul 15, 2014
On Friday, the Lyric Opera of Chicago presented what it called […]
Lorin Maazel 1930-2014 – Jul 15, 2014
The conductor Lorin Maazel, a prodigy who began his public podium […]
Nelsons, Mutter and BSO team up for grand night of Dvořák at Tanglewood – Jul 13, 2014
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s all-Dvořák program at Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Shed Friday […]
Houston Grand Opera delivers powerful experience with “The Passenger” – Jul 12, 2014
If anything might refute Theodore Adorno’s statement that “to write a […]
Emerson Quartet delves deeply into late Shostakovich at Tanglewood – Jul 12, 2014
In Shostakovich’s hands the string quartet was less a conversation among […]
