New York Classical Review

Morton Feldman in squarely in the mainstream at Graphic Content Festival

Centennials are big deals with built-in reasons to present things that aren’t in mainstream institutional planning. But Feldman is now the mainstream and has been for a while. The Graphic Content ...
New York Classical Review

Critic’s Choice

In his inaugural season as music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky and ...
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AMOC brings blast of silence to music of Sciarrino, Hersch at TIME:SPANS

Aside from those rare outbursts, flutist Emi Ferguson supported the singer with soft colorations to match his voice, from liquid to hazy, from buzzing to breathy. At one point she detached the head ...
New York Classical Review

In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class

Eric Owens and Ryan Speedo Green in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera The production had a lot going for it: the good will (and expanded audience ...
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A tragedy haunts the past and present in Met’s “Innocence”

Vilma Jää as Markéta and Joyce DiDonato as the Waitress in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Conductor Susanna Mälkki, one of Saariaho’s most ...
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Vocal performances keep Met’s “Lohengrin” aloft in downbeat new staging

Tamara Wilson as Elsa and Piotr Beczała in the title role of Wagner’s Lohengrin. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera ended its mid-winter hiatus with the much-anticipated premiere of ...
New York Classical Review

“Fedora” returns to Met after 25 years in a sumptuous, richly sung production

Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczała star in Giordano’s Fedora, which opened at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday night. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Fedora returned to the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s ...
New York Classical Review

‘The Hours’ returns to the Met with new layers of meaning

Kathleen Kim as Barbara and Renée Fleming as Clarissa Vaughan in Kevin Puts’s The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Some things are even better the second time around.
New York Classical Review

Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...
New York Classical Review

Noseda strikes sparks with National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America

Gianandrea Noseda conducted the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee A year removed from the wonderful World Orchestra Festival of youth ...
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European Youth Orchestra rises to the Mahler challenge at Carnegie

Isata Kanneh-Mason performed Ernst von Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune with Iván Fischer and the European Union Youth Orchestra Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Stephanie Berger Carnegie ...