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Fin-de-siècle Fantasies: Renee Fleming, Jeremy Denk, & the Emerson Quartet

Adele Bloch-Bauer I: Gustav Klimt, 1907Saturday, May 4 saw the last night of Renee Fleming's "Perspectives" series at Carnegie Hall, and its inventive... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Nights Like These: Firework-Maker's Daughter

Joy of discovery: Bevan and Pencarreg in The Firework-Maker's Daughter The Firework-Maker's Daughter, an opera composed by David Bruce with a libretto by Glyn... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Fin Ch'han Dal Vino: Don Giovanni with the New York Opera Exchange

Don Giovanni in 1963 The New York Opera Exchange has followed up their inaugural season's Cosi fan tutte with another production of a Mozart/Da Ponte opera... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Song of Norway: Grieg Goes Broadway-style

Danieley, Silber, and Fontana sing of Norway. Photo (c) Erin Baiano On Tuesday night, the eve of May, the Collegiate Chorale presented an appropriately... Read more
Posted on 02 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Ich Sei Das Weib! Goerke and the Greenwich Village Orchestra

A non-professional orchestra and an international soprano might sound like strange bedfellows, but in Sunday's concert of Wagner selections, Christine Goerke an... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
And the Dark Became Desire: Renée Fleming and the NYPhil at Carnegie Hall

The centerpiece of Friday evening's Carnegie Hall concert was unquestionably Anders Hillborg's The Strand Settings, a song cycle commissioned by the New York... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Giulio Cesare: Dà Pace All'armi!

David McVicar presents Handel's Giulio Cesare as a witty, knowing fable about imperialist projects giving way to cooperation based on mutual respect between... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Interval Adventures: Visiting Verdi Square

Thanks to Italian-American philanthropy of the early twentieth century, Papa Verdi has a square named after him and a statue in his honor at 72nd Street. Read more
Posted on 12 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata: o Nuovo Incanto

The Siege of Jerusalem, 1099 (from a 12th-century chronicle) Verdi's fourth opera, written when he was 29 years old, was penned at a time when Meyerbeer's... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Aspergimi D'issopo e Sarò Mondo: Puccini's "Girl" and Her Gospel

Fanciulla del West's first cast (1910) As I'm a member of a high liturgical tradition, I spent this evening at a Tenebrae service: in a darkened church,... Read more
Posted on 28 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Eliogabalo: Eccomi Trasformato

That Francesco Cavalli's Eliogabalo survives at all is something of a historical improbability. The experienced and popular operatic composer penned the work... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Bach's Mass in B Minor with the NYPhil

I have to accept the way [Bach] believed. His music never stops praying.... I do not believe in the Gospels in a literal fashion, but a Bach fugue has the... Read more
Posted on 15 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Stephanie Blythe Sings the 20th Century at Carnegie Hall

Despite some empty seats, the Monday night audience for Stephanie Blythe and Warren Jones was one of the most warmly enthusiastic I've heard for a vocal recital. Read more
Posted on 12 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Don Carlo: Lo Spirto Che Vacilla

Filippo (Furlanetto) mourns what might have been. Frittoli is Elisabetta. Photo (c) Met Opera Yesterday's performance of Don Carlo boasted some fine singing,... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Turn of the Screw: What Goes on in Your Dreams?

Divided loyalties: Miles, the Governess, and Peter Quint in NYCO's Turn of the Screw (Photo (c) Richard Termine) On a cold and rainy night in New York City, an... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Parsifal: Durch Mitleid Wissend

The education of the pure fool: Parsifal, Act I The more I think about Francois Girard's production of Parsifal, the more I am struck by how thoughtful its... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Dialogs and Dualities: Henze and Stockhausen

It's been a good week for German music in NYC. Yesterday I heard the Met's Parsifal (of which more when I've processed it enough for a modicum of emotional... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Pari Siamo: Rigoletto and the Rat Pack

Saturday's matinee of Rigoletto confirmed that a pretty solid performance of this Verdi masterpiece makes for an above average night (or afternoon) at the opera. Read more
Posted on 19 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
A Quite Unloseable Game? Powder Her Face at New York City Opera

Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll Photo courtesy of National Portrait Gallery Poet Philip Larkin famously identified 1963 as the year sex was discovered,... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA
Nostalgia with Grit: Charles Castronovo's Neapolitan Songs

Even the cover art of Charles Castronovo's "Dolce Napoli" album sets it apart from the sun-flooded, pizza parlor kitsch that threatens to swamp such... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA