For Irish history lovers, Lawrence Kramer’s new chamber opera The Dreaming of the Bones, inspired by W. B. Yeats’s play of the same name, might be just the ticket. But be forewarned: it helps to brush ...
Madeline Healey was appealingly ingenuous of voice and demeanor as Euridice, tearing no passion to tatters but touching in her distress as Orfeo’s mistake of looking back at her caused his wife to be ...
Toward the end of the 2024-25 season, Gustavo Dudamel led the New York Philharmonic in a tremendous, unforgettable performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Even more than the great music making, ...
Conductor Ramon Tebar, in his Met debut, led the orchestra with sweeping, lyrical gestures in what came out as a rather discreet performance, nuanced closely with the singers, yet still capable of ...
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 ...