Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
Don’t think that the movies have exclusive title to making bio-pics. Opera has been at it for years. Donizetti set a brilliant example in 1837 with “Roberto Devereux,” third in a trio of works about the Tudor monarchy. I ...
Kronos Quartet and documentary filmmakers Sam Green & Joe Bini
David E. MorenoBerkeley,
“A Thousand Thoughts, a thousand questions, mine, yours, ours, theirs, questions that perhaps open up things that definitive answers would only nail shut. Kronos Quartet’s long trajectory offers a series of questions that are solid and answers are elusive. ...
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
It’s still the same old story, a search for love and glory. Okay, so I paraphrased it. To hear playwright Sarah Ruhl and composer Matthew Aucoin tell it, Orpheus (Joshua Hopkins) is a god when he is creating music, ...
-- for Piano, Oud, Voice, Orchestra; Double Bass, Tympani.
Michael McDonagh
Much has been made of the stylistic freedom composers now enjoy. The Gordian knot of the 12-note system has been cut and few composers save those in the academy seem even tempted to write in the 12-note ...
Ariadne MikouItaly,
After the end of a short summer break and the inauguration of the autumn season, along with “La Traviata” and “The Barber of Seville”, Teatro Massimo in Palermo opens its doors to the world premiere of “Winter Journey”, a ...
Karen WeinsteinLos Angeles,
Call it a chestnut or a war horse, if you must, in order to polish your sophistication credentials. “La Bohème,” done well, is some of the most moving music on an opera stage. It is ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
The Philadelphia Orchestra performs every summer at the Mann Center in Fairmount Park, but on June 24 it would be the first time musical director Yannick Nezet-Seguin would on the podium at the open-air venue. And he made it ...
Karen Weinstein
How you feel about the Marta Domingo production of La Traviata will probably be influenced by what you think about moving an opera from the original setting to another time period. Verdi wrote his blockbuster ...
Lewis WhittingtonPhiladelphia,
The Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia was back in Verizon Hall with a concert built around an instrument not usually a part of the orchestration in big band jazz repertory, namely, the pipe organ. But bandleader Terell Stafford proved what ...
Michael McDonaghBerkeley,
The Philharmonia has been called one of the best orchestras in the world and its principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen may be one of our top living ones, so pairing a master work by the Russian Igor ...
