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New York Classical Review10d
An evening of color, brilliance and virtuosity from Teatro Real at Carnegie
The concerto was an appropriate nod to Dueñas’ acknowledged fascination with the great violinists of the past, as Jascha ...
New York Classical Review5d
Pianist’s recital celebrates Khachaturian as national hero
Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.
New York Classical Review9d
Botstein, ASO unearth buried treasure with Strauss’s “Guntram”
Guntram, Richard Strauss’s first opera, didn’t bomb when it premiered in Weimar in 1894. That happened with the second ...
New York Classical Review10d
Bizarro Zemlinsky opera needs an ironic touch of the Wilde
The Little Opera Theatre of New York has a curious production titled Zemlinsky’s Zimmer/Zemlinsky’s Room, which opened ...
New York Classical Review2y
Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Long before this year’s ...
New York Classical Review18d
Kissin and friends explore Shostakovich sonatas at Carnegie
Evgeny Kissin performed Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata with Gidon Kremer Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and ...
New York Classical Review2y
Vocal performances keep Met’s “Lohengrin” aloft in downbeat new staging
Tamara Wilson as Elsa and Piotr Beczała in the title role of Wagner’s Lohengrin. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera ended its mid-winter hiatus with the much-anticipated premiere of ...
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Top Ten Performances of 2018
2. Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star. On Site Opera. One could hardly imagine a better argument for On Site Opera’s mission of opera in situ than their March production of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning ...