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A Ho-Hum Don, a Brilliant New Billy. Aix Fest Part I

July 15, 2025 | Mark Valencia, Musical America
AIX-EN-PROVENCE—Artistic Director Pierre Audi died on May 3 , just two weeks before rehearsals began for the current Aix en Provence Festival. On one level his work was over by that point, all executive logistics in place; on another, he … » Read
 

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Serebrennikov Updates Boris to Today's 'Time of Troubles'

July 14, 2025 | Maya Pritsker, Musical America
AMSTERDAM--Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov takes place in the Time of the Troubles (end of the 16 th beginning of the 17 th century). Its new production for the Dutch National Opera, staged by exiled Russian film, theater, and opera … » Read
 

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British Youth Opera Passes the Grimes Litmus Test

July 9, 2025 | Clive Paget, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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Haymarket Has a Hit with the Other Leonardo

July 8, 2025 | Wynne Delacoma, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center: A Rare Occasion

July 7, 2025 | Fred Cohn, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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Third Coast Percussion
Throws Itself a Festival

July 3, 2025 | Hannah Edgar, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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Wigmore Hall Hosts the Cool Kids

July 2, 2025 | Clive Paget, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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New Figaro at Glyndebourne:
Familiarity Breeds Content

July 1, 2025 | Keith Clarke, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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A Mentor-Mentee Confab at Ravinia

July 1, 2025 | Hannah Edgar, Musical America
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 … » Read
 

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That Other Chicago Orchestra Offers a Distinguished Shostakovich 10

June 30, 2025 | Wynne Delacoma, Musical America
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 … » Read
 
 

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