News

New York Classical Review3d
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 ...
New York Classical Review5d
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 Review9d
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 Review3d
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 Review6d
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 Review5d
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 ...