“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...

One Response to “Vienna Philharmonic thrills with music from Weimar era (more or less)” Posted Mar 03, 2024 at 3:56 pm by Stephen Essrig The Hindemith, from a composer who I usually admire, and ...

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Stéphane Denève leading the New York Philharmonic Friday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. Carlos Simon’s orchestral piece ...

Yuja Wang performed music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Kapustin in April at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Scriabin, Albéniz and Kapustin. Yuja Wang ...

One Response to “Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite”” Posted Mar 17, 2024 at 1:32 pm by John kelly I completely agree with every word of this well-written ...

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 ...

Soprano Lisette Oropesa performed Mozart arias with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Yannick Nézet ...

Anne Azéma led Boston Camerata Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church to open the Music Before 1800 series. Photo: Robert Torres “Early music” is a relative term, especially when it comes to ...