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British Youth Opera Passes the Grimes Litmus Test

LONDON—The ability to mount a production of Peter Grimes is a litmus test for the health of even the starriest institution. This July 6 performance at London’s Cadogan Hall proved that British Youth Opera (BYO), the U.K.’s … »
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Haymarket Has a Hit with the Other Leonardo

CHICAGO—The opera is four hours long, including two intermissions. The composer—Leonardo Vinci (no, not that Leonardo)—was famous in the early 1700s but virtually unknown today. The plot is beyond byzantine. Set in ancient … »
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Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center: A Rare Occasion

The June 28 concert Julius Eastman: A Power Greater Than started with a processional, of sorts. The seven trumpeters who performed the composer’s 1970 Trumpet, played its first movement from the aisles of Geffen Hall’s Wu Tsai … »
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Third Coast Percussion
Throws Itself a Festival

CHICAGO—In the summer of 2005, four young percussionists gave their first performance as a standalone quartet at Northwestern University, where they’d all studied. Twenty years, a Grammy, and a couple lineup changes later, that … »
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Wigmore Hall Hosts the Cool Kids

LONDON—With his eclectic taste, imaginative aural palette, and a talent for quirky, occasionally barmy music-making, 35-year-old Alex Paxton is one of the U.K.’s most original voices. As such, he was the perfect provocateur to curate … »
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A Mentor-Mentee Confab at Ravinia

CHICAGO—In a charmed scheduling alignment, the Ravinia Festival recently hosted two strongly linked string quartets within a few days of each another: The Isidore String Quartet, on June 22, and the Juilliard String Quartet, on June 25. The … »
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New Figaro at Glyndebourne:
Familiarity Breeds Content

LONDON— Le nozze di Figaro was the beginning of it all for Glyndebourne, opening the very first season on May 28, 1934, in a theater holding 300. On the same date 60 years later, the work was chosen to launch the new opera house. There have … »
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That Other Chicago Orchestra Offers a Distinguished Shostakovich 10

CHICAGO—The annual Grant Park Music Festival, 10 weeks of free symphony concerts outdoors in downtown Chicago, has been one of the city’s most popular music offerings since the mid-1930s. There’s no counting how many adult music … »
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With Rodelinda, Garsington Confirms Its Country-House Cred

LONDON—Nestled among the Chiltern Hills, Garsington is one of the most picturesque venues on the English country-house-opera circuit. Founded in 1989, the company relocated in 2011 to Wormsley Park at the invite of Mark Getty, younger son … »
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AMOC Invades Lincoln Center

In Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos , an opera seria ensemble and a commedia dell’arte troupe are ordered to perform “gleichzeitig”—simultaneously. In fact, Ariadne ’s opera-within-an-opera achieves … »
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