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The Attacca Attacks a Savvy Program
SAN FRANCISCO--The Attacca Quartet lived up to its name on Sunday, February 4, in an absorbing afternoon concert at Hertz Hall on the University of California Berkeley campus. On both halves of the Cal Performances program, the musicians played … »
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An Uneven Night for a Promising Conductor
LONDON—Oksana Lyniv [pictured] is a notable breaker of glass ceilings. In 2021 she was the first woman to conduct at Bayreuth, opening the festival with a feisty account of The Flying Dutchman . The following year she became the first … »
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Isola: A New Opera? Song Cycle? 'Poetic Monodrama'?
LONG BEACH, CA—The world premiere of Alyssa Weinberg’s opera Isola took place February 3 in a site called Compound, a small performance space (Laboratory) attached to a hip-looking art gallery/cafe/bar located on a tiny side street in … »
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DiDonato's Peerless Dido Melts Hearts at the Barbican
LONDON—Joyce DiDonato, shrewd diva that she is, has carved a useful niche in her résumé out of playing one character. That’s Dido, of course, the Carthaginian queen whose name is encoded within her own. As a sequel to … »
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Lise Davidson Soars, Conductor Overdoes It
On February 1 at Carnegie Hall, Lise Davidsen reaffirmed her status as a once-in-a-generation vocal phenomenon. Singing the Wesendonck Lieder , with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra led by its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, … »
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Monteverdi's Equal Was a Woman
LONDON—Born in Venice in 1619, Barbara Strozzi was registered as the daughter of Isabella Griega, housekeeper to the academician Giulio Strozzi. That the famous poet and opera librettist went on to adopt her suggests she was his actual … »
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At Cal Performances: Eco Delivers Cindy Cox's Musical Landscapes
SAN FRANCISCO—With one of the West’s atmospheric rivers churning away outside, Hertz Hall on the University of California Berkeley campus sheltered a different and more varied display of natural phenomena on February 6: Bustling … »
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Pappano and the LSO Set a New Standard for Elijah
LONDON—For half a century or more, the benchmark recording of Mendelssohn’s Elijah in English has been an all-star affair conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. With a solo team led by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau that included … »
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Met Chamber Ensemble Perfectly Evokes Weimar Ebulllience
Paul Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1 , the first work on the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble’s January 22 Weill Hall program, opens with an agitated cacophony, all swirling sixteenth notes and trumpet fanfares. Two nights earlier, the … »
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MTT's Mahler Five Is a Grand Finale
SAN FRANCISCO—When concertgoers made their way into the main entrance of Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, January 26, they did so via MTT Way , the newly named stretch of Grove Street that honors the San Francisco Symphony’s longtime … »
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