The last time I saw Karita Mattila in “Jenůfa” she played the title role, a young village girl madly in…
Music
The trouble with Verdi’s “Don Carlo” always has been — like much of Wagner — too much of a good…
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between” This quote from Mozart seems particularly apt for…
Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) continues to sound more at home in Verizon Hall, with every concert…
First, I must admit that I am more familiar with Schubert’s “Wintereisse” through the voice of Ian Bostridge, but sung…
Solo piano recitals aren’t that frequent even in a fairly sophisticated town like San Francisco. Sure, we have them at…
Opera Philadelphia closed their 2015-16 season with a new production of Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love,” an unwavering favorite with…
Most operas begin with an overture. Peter Maxwell Davies’ “The Lighthouse” opens with an interrogation, a police investigation surrounding the…
To cope with internet overload, we allow algorithms to sift through and feed us bits and pieces to match our…
Olivier Messiaen’s monumental work Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus (Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus) surely ranks amongst the “greats”…
Sir András Schiff is traversing the final three piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concerts across America…
What more is there to say about “Madame Butterfly?” You know the music is glorious; it sticks in your head…
In 1926, German director Fritz Lang stunned international audiences with his masterpiece Metropolis and its depiction of a false utopia…
For the final concert of the 21st Other Minds Festival, Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble delivered a bare bones retrospective of…