Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...

“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 ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

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 ...

Act I was lukewarm, and a lot of that had to do with the singing and orchestral playing. Queequeg and Greenhorn are the first characters to sing, and Green and Costello were subdued in the opening ...

The main attraction at New York Philharmonic concerts in David Geffen Hall this week is newness. It comes in two parts; a world premiere composition and the Philharmonic debut of a world-class soloist ...

Tosca returned to the Met on Wednesday evening capping off a trio of performances which included the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann to launch the ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...

The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus Monday night with the belated house premiere of Verdi’s Don Carlos in the original, five-act French version. The trimmed, Italian version, Don ...