Tenor Pati makes an ardent Met debut in “Rigoletto”
Jan 7, 2025 · Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a fresh cast under the baton of Daniele Callegari.The performance featured the house debut of tenor Pene Pati as the Duke of Mantua. The role has been his calling card in opera houses worldwide, and it is easy to see why from this performance.
Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of …
Sep 29, 2024 · The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud Doctor Miracle, was forbidden to sing for reasons of health.
New York Classical Review
Sometimes finding a musical treasure is sheer serendipity. A librarian cleaning a cupboard in a Pennsylvania seminary stumbles on a piano duet transcription of Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue in the composer’s own hand. Preparing for a renovation at Russia’s St. Petersburg Conservatory, librarians find a copy of Stravinsky’s long-lost “Funeral Song.”
Met’s “Magic Flute” brings a double helping of Mozartian holiday …
Dec 13, 2024 · The days are shortening, the air is chilly, and festive lights are going up. That means it’s time for the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday performance of The Magic Flute.This is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, compressed into one continuous act of under two hours, translated into English by J.D. McClatchy, and using Julie Taymor’s previous production for the full opera.
Hewitt’s style proves better suited to Baroque than Brahms at 92NY
Oct 31, 2024 · Angela Hewitt and Johannes Brahms are both antiquarians at heart, immersing themselves in very old music—she to perform it in concert, he to deepen his understanding of composition.
Beczała finds his own tempo giusto in Carnegie Hall recital
Dec 10, 2024 · Not every song recital is a lieder recital, but the performance by tenor Piotr Beczała and pianist Helmut Deutsch in Carnegie Hall on Monday, even though it featured songs by Russian, Norwegian, and Polish as well as German composers, was essentially a lieder recital.
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
Feb 22, 2024 · The Metropolitan Opera will continue its expansion into contemporary opera in its 2024-2025 season, with four house premieres from composers of our time, and will refresh one of its most popular repertoire operas with a new production.
A new cast still finding its footing in Met’s “Tosca”
Nov 13, 2024 · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results.
Charles Ives sounds hale and youthful at 150 with Botstein, The ...
Nov 22, 2024 · Whether one considers Charles Ives an eccentric Yankee tinkerer or the foundational voice of American music or something in between, the rarity of his works on concert programs during this, his 150 th anniversary year, is hard to figure. In particular, the American musical organizations that are large and proficient enough to perform his four symphonies and other orchestral pieces—the core ...
Edusei roams widely and brilliantly in Philharmonic debut
Jan 3, 2025 · The program of the New York Philharmonic’s concert Thursday night was largely about journeys, but it started with an arrival. In an impressive Philharmonic debut, the German conductor Kevin John Edusei presented a brilliant calling card in Samy Moussa’s Elysium, then took listeners on poetic and philosophical trips with music of Berlioz and Richard Strauss.