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New York Classical Review8d
Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra” serves up banal bread and circuses in Met debut
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...
New York Classical Review4d
Stellar second cast continues the bel canto delights in Met’s “Barber of Seville”
A new tenor is in town. In her Met role debut, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was an equally dazzling Rosina, full of fun ...
New York Classical Review2d
Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high
The transition from America’s roof to below sea level seemed not to faze the musicians at all, as music director Bahman Saless led the 42-player ensemble in his own composition, the five-minute ...
New York Classical Review2d
Juilliard415 closes Music Before 1800 season with joyful “Corelli in Chiquitos”
Introducing Music Before 1800’s season finale Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church, artistic director Bill Barclay remarked that “world music is early music.” This is clear through the range of ...
New York Classical Review5d
Heartbeat Opera wraps its slenderized “Faust” in light and shadow
A twig and a flashlight were all it took to project Marguerite’s garden onto the scenery in shadows. In a particularly ...
New York Classical Review4d
Noisy and pastoral love vie in mixed Philharmonic program
The wordless singing of the New York Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather, put a human presence in the scene, whether cooing over the lovers or shouting for joy in the work’s ...
New York Classical Review14d
Stars come out with Mutter and friends at Carnegie Hall
Some chamber music fans prefer the communal, no-stars ethos of an organization like the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Others like the interplay of big personalities when famous soloists get ...
New York Classical Review21d
Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura
Elza van den Heever in the title role and Peter Mattei as Jochanaan in Strauss’s Salome at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera ...
New York Classical Review16d
A rich and remarkable cast makes for a cherishable “Cesare” with English Concert
Christophe Dumaux and Louise Alder in the English Concert’s performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Fadi Kheir For any classical musician or ensemble to take ...
New York Classical Review17d
Met’s new “Figaro” cast adds seasoning, comedic spark to superb vocalism
If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...