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Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...
Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...
The Hours, which began as an award-winning, best-selling novel, and was then made into a popular film, is now an opera. Commissioned from composer Kevin Puts by the Metropolitan Opera and the ...
It’s not every pianist who can sell out Carnegie Hall without divulging what she’s going to play, as Yuja Wang did Tuesday night. The capacity audience came prepared to gasp at her scintillating ...
Two eras are coming to an end this weekend in David Geffen Hall: 50-plus years of Mostly Mozart (the festival began under a different name in 1966), and the 25-year tenure of conductor Louis Langrée ...
It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the Metropolitan Opera Tuesday night. The death-row drama by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally has attained ...
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is back for a second time this season at the Metropolitan Opera and better than ever. The Met mounted an excellent cast for the January run, but this one, headed by ...
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 ...
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 ...
At first glimpse, violinist Chenyi Avsharian’s program for her recital at Zankel Hall on Saturday evening, entitled “Boundless Horizon,” didn’t overly impress. It was comprised mostly of warhorses of ...
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 ...
Legendary pianists could be pretty good composers, too. Perhaps you’ve heard of Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff… But what about violinists? Conductor and musical archaeologist Leon Botstein ...
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