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Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, Courtesy of Opera Lafayette In Bordeaux in 1887,...
Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the female one.
The opera is a chimera: McCrae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McCrae.
The opera is a chimera: McRae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McRae.
There's plenty here for the historically curious but not quite enough to make for a compelling comedic performance.
This rich, meditative opera succeeds where other operatic treatments of Sor Juana do not.
Tenor Piotr Beczała and pianist Helmut Deutsch. Photo: Chris Lee It was a good week for Russian song at Carnegie Hall, where two concerts by vastly...
The processor and speaker for Living Room Pieces. Photo: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC My first apartment in New York made me aware, with blaring clarity, how...
Semyon Bychkov conducting the Czech Philharmonic. Photo: Stefan Cohen Dvořák’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 33—his only in the...
Die Frau ohne Schatten begins after happily-ever-after and ends as another ever-after begins—essentially, it’s an opera about the beginning of a...
“Oh, the dead,” the artist Lily Briscoe thinks in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. “One pitied them, one brushed them aside, one had even a...
One night, when I was a teenager, I went outside to retrieve something from my car and came face to face with wildness. At first, I thought it was...
The drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory can feel gloomy and imposing but in Indra’s Net, the latest full-length work from Meredith Monk, that...
Listen to the chirps of cicadas long enough, and you might begin to impose your own music onto theirs, infusing it with the mysterious rhythm of...
A decade after the Met Opera commissioned composer Janine Tesori—the first woman in the company’s history to receive such a commission—Grounded has...
Under the direction of founder Andrew Ousley, Death of Classical has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with the Green-Wood Cemetery, presenting...