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In a program that swung from the Continental Divide to the Nile in a single bound, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 20 th anniversary Sunday night with a high-altitude performance in ...
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera There is a divide in John Adams’ opera career that’s not marked by ...
Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening in a new production by Claus Guth. It is Guth’s first assignment at the Met, coming rather late in the 61-year-old German opera ...
Megan Moore performed the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Crossing Borders Sunday at the Morgan Library, presented by the George and Nora London Foundation. Photo: Beth Bergman Charitable foundations ...
Leonard Slatkin conducted the New York Philharmonic in music of Cindy McTee, John Corigliano, and Shostakovich Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee This week’s New York Philharmonic ...
La Bohème is back at the Metropolitan Opera for its third of four installments this season. For performances this month, Mimi and Rodolfo are Kristina Mkhitaryan and Joseph Calleja, while Brittany ...
Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...
The ocean was a little dry Thursday night at David Geffen Hall, but heaven was open for business, as three modern masters took New York Philharmonic listeners on lofty spiritual journeys. The ...
Pene Pati as the Duke and Erin Morley as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Jennifer Taylor / Met Opera Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a ...
Lucy Shelton (foreground) with Yasmine Spiegelberg and Christina Maria Castro in the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity presented by On Site Opera. Photo: Piper Gunnarson On Site Opera gave ...
Dmytro Popov as Rodolfo and Ailyn Pérez as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera With over 500 performances, even a crowd-pleasing production like Franco ...
E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early Romantic era, is remembered today less for his own writings than for his influence on the likes of Hawthorne, Poe, and the young Robert Schumann.