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Edmond Dédé’s ‘Morgiane’ Is as Musically Rich as It Is Historically Significant

Edmond Dédé’s ‘Morgiane’ Is as Musically Rich as It Is Historically Significant

Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, Courtesy of Opera Lafayette In Bordeaux in 1887,...

22.02.2025 9

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Heartbeat Opera’s ‘Salome’ Dares Us to Look

Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the female one.

13.02.2025 8

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Michael Hersch and Shane McCrae On Co-Creating ‘and we, each’

The opera is a chimera: McCrae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McCrae.

11.02.2025 8

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Michael Hersch and Shane McRae On Co-Creating ‘and we, each’

The opera is a chimera: McRae’s words refracted through Hersch’s sensibility, then reframed yet again by McRae.

11.02.2025 6

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Joseph Bologne’s ‘The Anonymous Lover’ Is Surprisingly Unfunny in Philadelphia

There's plenty here for the historically curious but not quite enough to make for a compelling comedic performance.

04.02.2025 4

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Rich and Meditative, ‘Primero Sueño’ at the Cloisters Brings Sor Juana to Life

This rich, meditative opera succeeds where other operatic treatments of Sor Juana do not.

30.01.2025 20

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Asmik Grigorian’s Raw Passion Eclipsed Piotr Beczała’s Quiet Thunder at Carnegie Hall

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...

18.12.2024 20

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Gabrielle Ferrari

The Experience of Living with Michael J. Schumacher’s ‘Living Room Pieces’

The processor and speaker for Living Room Pieces. Photo: DOTDOTDOTMUSIC My first apartment in New York made me aware, with blaring clarity, how...

11.12.2024 3

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Celebrating Czech Music at Carnegie Hall With Dvořák’s Piano Concerto and Janáček’s ‘Glagolitic Mass’

Semyon Bychkov conducting the Czech Philharmonic. Photo: Stefan Cohen Dvořák’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 33—his only in the...

10.12.2024 6

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ at the Met Is Full of Beauty and Surprises

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...

03.12.2024 4

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Gabrielle Ferrari

True Events Become History and History Becomes Art in the Met’s ‘Ainadamar’

“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...

22.10.2024 2

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘The Listeners’ Offers a Chilling Take On Disillusionment and American Despair

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...

09.10.2024 5

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Indra’s Net’ Fills New York’s Park Avenue Armory With Sound and Beauty

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...

07.10.2024 3

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Silent Light’ at National Sawdust Captures the Sounds (and the Scents) of Everyday Life

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...

01.10.2024 3

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Despite Tropes, the Met’s ‘Grounded’ Is a Solid Outing

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...

26.09.2024 1

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Opera Underground: Caroline Shaw’s ‘Partita for 8 Voices’ and Gelsey Bell’s ‘morning//mourning’ at Green-Wood Cemetery

Under the direction of founder Andrew Ousley, Death of Classical has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with the Green-Wood Cemetery, presenting...

17.09.2024 3

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Gabrielle Ferrari