Some concerts illuminate a single idea. Danny Driver’s recital at Carnegie Hall Thursday evening illuminated many, revealing ...
Nilsson may be the most demure Aida ever to grace the Met stage. Her simple sheath instantly marks her as an outsider, but her regal bearing is that of a princess. Simplicity was Nilsson’s trump card, ...
It started with a Parisian in America, and it ended with An American in Paris. But it was really about a Venezuelan in New York. Gustavo Dudamel made a rare visit to his orchestra-to-be Thursday night ...
And in fact, Smetana’s piece, with its two movements in moderate tempos, made an agreeably unshowy opener for Sunday’s ...
Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...
Lise Davidsen as Leonore confronts the villainous Pizzaro (Tomasz Konieczny) in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera ...
La Bohème is back at the Metropolitan Opera for its third of four installments this season. For performances this month, Mimi ...
JACK Quartet performed a program Wednesday night at Symphony Space for Cutting Edge Concerts. Cutting Edge Concerts doesn’t always present music that fits its name, but artistic director Victoria Bond ...
In the first movement, the soloist and two orchestral oboes began by blending their tones in chains of ear-buzzing seconds, ...