Samantha Hankey as Dorabella (left) and Federica Lombardi as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Phelim McDermott’s staging is set in the ...
Haydn pushes the Classical Mass toward symphonic drama, using the limited forces available to him—strings, organ, trumpets, and timpani—to create music of extraordinary darkness and urgency, qualities ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1. Mahler: Symphony No. 7. Gustavo Dudamel/New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel isn’t officially the music director of the New York Philharmonic until next season, but performances this year show ...
Yuja Wang performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA All-Stars Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Music for a party is a ...
Thomas Oliemans as Papageno and Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera For those who equate Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with ...
A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris experienced “the shock of the new” as never before, when the primitive rhythms and dissonances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky performed music of Ysaÿe and Joachim with Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: David DeNee Legendary pianists could be pretty good ...
In his inaugural season as music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky and de Falla March 10-24, 2027. Caroline Shaw is this season’s Richard and ...
Xabier Anduaga made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amor Thursday night. L’Elisir d’amore returned to the Metropolitan Opera Thursday evening with a near-perfect ...