Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...

One Response to “Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high” Posted Jun 07, 2025 at 8:20 am by Linda Kig I am so proud of you all. It takes dedication and ...

At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and Evgeny Kissin. The pianist is leading a series of concerts of the composer’s music. The second one, Wednesday night, was ...

Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened Friday night as the final production of this season, has a short but notable history at the Metropolitan Opera. Its premiere house performances were ...

Whatever else one says about Kevin Puts’s The Brightness of Light, which received its New York premiere Friday night at the New York Philharmonic, the work’s creators are an impressive bunch. Start ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Aida returned Sunday afternoon for an end-of-season run. From the opening-night performance on New Year’s Eve the cast has gone through a few changes. These ...

One Response to “Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic” Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 8:18 am by DorothyT A woodwind musician RAVED about the new staging after last ...

The main attraction at New York Philharmonic concerts in David Geffen Hall this week is newness. It comes in two parts; a world premiere composition and the Philharmonic debut of a world-class soloist ...

Act I was lukewarm, and a lot of that had to do with the singing and orchestral playing. Queequeg and Greenhorn are the first characters to sing, and Green and Costello were subdued in the opening ...

On Site Opera gave the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity on Thursday evening at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It’s a hot ticket with all three remaining New York ...

Is there a Japanese way to play Mozart, Liszt and Beethoven? The idea goes against some well-established principles. One is that we expect performers to be individuals, bringing their personal ...