Glimmerglass Celebrates 50 Years with a Season in Red!
Yes, Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York has reached its half-century mark. What began in 1975 as a plucky community-based initiative to mount a production…
Browsing: Stephen Sondheim
CD Review | Oiseaux de passage, Natalie Dessay & Philippe Cassard
Oiseaux de passage Natalie Dessay, soprano; Philippe Cassard, piano; André Previn, Stephen Sondheim, Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Maurice Ravel, Louis…
Lebrecht Weekly | Zlatomir Fung’s Fantasies & Stephen Sondheim’s Chamber music
I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the…
Review | Stellar cast enlivens flawed Into the Woods at Koerner Hall
The nearly 40-year-old musical Into the Woods, with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Sondheim and book by American playwright James Lapine, has become…
The Royal Conservatory of Music Produces Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods
November 19, 2024 -The Royal Conservatory of Music is thrilled to produce Into the Woods, its third Sondheim musical in concert, after the success of Follies in 2021 and A…
West Side Story: The Compositional Legacy of Leonard Bernstein
Of all Leonard Bernstein’s compositions—from Candide to Mass to On The Town—West Side Story looms large above the rest.
Follies in Concert: Live music makes a welcome comeback
TORONTO – For the first time since the pandemic began, a concert hall in Ontario saw a nearly full house of fully-vaccinated patrons sitting side…
Into the Woods: A Tale of Tales
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s classic Into the Woods is certainly not for the faint of heart. I had the pleasure of conducting it last year for…
