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Orchestre de la Francophonie: End of Season Concert 4.5 Stars Simon Rivard, conductor. Mahler Symphony #4: Julie Triquet, violin, Andréanne Brisson Paquin, soprano. August 4, 2017.…
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The Devil Came Up to Boston for Cerise Lim Jacobs’ New Opera, “REV. 23”
REVIEW of REV. 23, a new comic opera that sees beyond the End of Days, conceived and written by Cerise Lim Jacobs, with a score…
Austin Symphony’s “Feast of Voices” Imaginative Programming
“FEAST OF VOICES” Beethoven-Bruckner: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 “Pathétique” (lst movement) Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi Mahler-Britten: Symphony No. 3 (2nd…
Love Songs Opéra Not for Everyone
What you miss: A great performance by the polyvalent mezzo Marie-Annick Béliveau as she explored with sounds that go from raspy-bluesy to classical to flat…
Glimmerglass 2017 – The Afterglow
Retrospective of the Glimmerglass Festival mainstage season of Summer 2017: Xerxes, by G.F. Handel (libretto by Minato and Stampiglia); The Siege of Calais by Gaetano…
Musica Camerata Kicks Off 48th Season
Musica Camerata kicked off its 48th season with an evening of quartets for piano, violin, viola, and cello. Respected as a premiere Canadian chamber ensemble,…
She Falls from a Tower Shaped Like a Dagger
A splendid new co-production of Puccini’s Tosca by Opéra de Montréal and the Cincinatti Opera broods on the terrible power of art, eros, and the…
Peter Bay’s 20th Austin Symphony Season Begins with French Connection
Mozart in Paris Poulenc: Suite from “Les Biches” FP36 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 15 in B flat major K. 450 Poulenc: Concert Champêtre for Harpsichord…
Moscow on the Hudson – Antonín Dvorák’s Dimitrij at Bard SummerScape 2017
RETROSPECTIVE: of the Bard SummerScape 2017 production of Antonín Dvořák’s 1882 opera Dimitrij (July 28 and 30 and August 2, 4 and 6) at the…
Opera Saratoga: The Racing City’s OTHER Season…
RETROSPECTIVE: of Opera Saratoga’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season (July 1 through 16) – Verdi’s Falstaff; Grétry’s and Marmontel’s Zémire et Azor; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will…
