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Dudamel kicks off Philharmonic weeks with bracing American music, old and new
Gustavo Dudamel won’t become the New York Philharmonic’s official music director until the start of the 2026-27 season, but ...
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Unsubtle lead a wild card in potential winning hand for Met’s “Queen of Spades”
Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann and Sonya Yoncheva as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Meytropolitan Opera.
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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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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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Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high
The transition from America’s roof to below sea level seemed not to faze the musicians at all, as music director Bahman ...
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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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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 scene, whether cooing over the lovers or shouting for joy in the work’s ...