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Dudamel kicks off Philharmonic stand with bracing American music, old and new
Gustavo Dudamel won’t become the New York Philharmonic’s official music director until the start of the 2026-27 season, but ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Heartbeat Opera wraps its slenderized “Faust” in light and shadow
Orson Van Gay II as Faust and Rachel Kobernick as Marguerite in Heartbeat Opera’s production of Gounod’s Faust. Photo: Andrew Boyle Heartbeat Opera’s new production of Charles Gounod’s Faust,which ...