A new cast still finding its footing in Met’s “Tosca”
Nov 13, 2024 · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter …
Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of …
Sep 29, 2024 · The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud …
Kurzak brings fresh vocal richness to Met’s “Tosca”
Sep 26, 2024 · Tosca returned to the Met on Wednesday evening capping off a trio of performances which included the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded and …
Organist Mossakowski makes a mighty sound in New York debut
Oct 30, 2024 · There are few visceral musical delights greater than an organ recital with its extraordinary display of colors and dynamics. Karol Mossakowski’s New York debut on …
Superb singing in “Rigoletto” highlights return of Met’s Weimar …
Oct 1, 2024 · Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening in Bartlett Sher’s production, which was first seen on New Year’s Eve 2021. The main draw then, as now, was …
Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener
Sep 24, 2024 · “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 …
New York Classical Review
The first thing one noticed when entering Carnegie Hall Wednesday night for the piano recital by Hélène Grimaud was where the piano was. Instead of its usual spot near the front of the stage, …
Dessoff Choirs marks a century with an expressive Brahms Requiem
Nov 3, 2024 · The performance Saturday afternoon at Town Hall by the Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra was more than just a concert. Certainly, the Dessoff, with soprano Joélle Harvey …
The Gesualdo Six offer a moving musical experience with “Secret …
Nov 10, 2024 · One Response to “The Gesualdo Six offer a moving musical experience with “Secret Byrd” ” Posted Nov 10, 2024 at 7:42 pm by Sallie Erichson. This was no …
Pianist Fujita proves an introspective yet compelling presence in ...
Nov 11, 2024 · Fujita turned to passions of a more poetic sort in Liszt’s “Sonnetto del Petrarca No. 104,” the first of the program’s two pieces from the Italian section of Années de pèlerinage.The …