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…
Browsing: Concert Reviews
Ariadne auf Naxos at the Berkshire Opera Festival: Serious Fun with a Girl, a God, and a Bunch of Gags
REVIEW: Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production at the Berkshire Opera Festival. It’s a backstage story as only Richard Strauss and his…
Final Concert of l’Orchestre de la Francophonie
Would you be willing to spend a sweltering summer evening listening to a youth orchestra in a venue with no air-conditioning? The hundreds who did…
Verbier Festival’s Salome by Richard Strauss, Medici.tv’s There and Here
One of the great delights of today’s viewer technology is sitting in your living room, a cup of chocolate in your hand, and, before you,…
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo – Handel’s Italian Masterpiece at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust
REVIEW: George Frideric Handel’s 1708 cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo at Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, starring Ambur Braid, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davóne Tines, directed by…
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Lady Macbeth is a shocking, brilliant first film by 37-year-old British director William Oldroyd. “We’re all fallen beings. But these creatures have fallen into the…
The Verbier Festival: An excursion in opulence
Imagine attending an entire year of recitals at Carnegie Hall or Der Musikverein. At either concert hall you will no doubt encounter the pianists András…
Thoughts on Kaufman and his documentary My Italy
History has taught us that every generational talent in the music business has had one common feature: they possess idiosyncrasies that set them apart from…
Opéra de Montréal presents a young La Bohème!
This year Opéra de Montréal is betting on a young, all-Canadian cast to present their last opera of the season, La bohème. Five of the eight singers in…
Zoltán Fejérvári Wins the 2017 CMIM after the Second Evening of Finals
Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári emerged victorious in this year’s Concours Musical International de Montréal. Italian pianist Giuseppe Guarrera received the second prize, and Stefano Andreatta,…
