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Stellar second cast continues the bel canto delights in Met’s “Barber of Seville”
A new tenor is in town. In her Met role debut, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was an equally dazzling Rosina, full of fun ...
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Noisy and pastoral love vie in mixed Philharmonic program
The wordless singing of the New York Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather, put a human presence in the ...
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Heartbeat Opera wraps its slenderized “Faust” in light and shadow
A twig and a flashlight were all it took to project Marguerite’s garden onto the scenery in shadows. In a particularly ...
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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 bequeathed to them was the genre of the “elegiac trio,” which has been taken up ...
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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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Bruckner emerges best in mixed German program by Young, Philharmonic
Simone Young conducted the New York Philharmonic in music of Schoenberg, Schumann and Bruckner Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program ...