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Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra” serves up banal bread and circuses in Met debut
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...
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A rich and remarkable cast makes for a cherishable “Cesare” with English Concert
The English Concert is one of the finest early music groups around, and they always bring along a stellar group of singers.
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Stars come out with Mutter and friends at Carnegie Hall
Tchaikovsky was a model to his Russian successors in many ways, but the most distinctive—and the most Russian—thing he ...
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Bruckner emerges best in mixed German program by Young, Philharmonic
On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program looks like a smoothly integrated survey of 19th century German ...
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Ax finds form in fantasy in Carnegie recital
The pianist, known for compelling, straight-no-chaser performances of keyboard classics, played five pieces Thursday night in ...
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Parlando closes season with a concise cabaret night
Songs from those films became part of the Great American Songbook, a manifestation of cabaret inseparable from New York cafe ...
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Met’s new “Figaro” cast adds seasoning, comedic spark to superb vocalism
Those are in the form of bass-baritones Luca Pisaroni and Adam Plachetka as Figaro and Count Almaviva. Not only are these two likely the best contemporary singers in those roles, and veterans of each, ...
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Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura
Elza van den Heever in the title role and Peter Mattei as Jochanaan in Strauss’s Salome at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera ...