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A Somewhat Collaborative Double Bill at RB&O

LONDON—With the country’s premiere opera company officially changing its name to the Royal Ballet and Opera, a cross-artform collaboration seems apposite. This double bill, dubbed Phaedra + Minotaur and seen February 7 in their … »
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Heartbeat's Salome Traffics in Obfuscation (and Clarinets)

At the curtain call for Heartbeat Opera’s February 6 Salome , Executive Director Christian De Gré Cardénas made a pitch for donations while assuring that the company continued to be in good financial health. In the context of … »
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Pappano & LSO Test Drive Their U.S. Tour Rep

LONDON—Antonio Pappano has focused his opening season as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra on British music, but this February 6 concert at the Barbican Centre paid equal homage to works from across the Atlantic, an apt … »
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SoundBox Returns, and All Things Are Possible

SAN FRANISCO—In January of 2024, San Francisco Symphony management announced a cost-cutting pullback from its popular SoundBox series. One previously scheduled concert was scrapped. Going forward, these late-night curated cabaret-style … »
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An Impassioned, if Not Flawless, Vanessa

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The reputation of Vanessa has gone through some rocky times. The Samuel Barber/Gian Carlo Menotti opera, the first new work of Rudolf Bing’s Metropolitan Opera intendancy, was generally lauded at its 1958 world … »
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BSO Finesses Die tote Stadt in Concert

BOSTON—Imagine an opera with a gorgeous score by Wagner, Mahler, Puccini, Zemlinsky, Richard and Johann Strauss, and Erich Korngold, whose sweeping romantic soundtracks for The Adventures of Robin Hood and Anthony Adverse (among many … »
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Michelle Cann Finds Her Calling Card

CHICAGO—As recently as a decade ago, Michelle Cann, like many classical music lovers, didn’t know who Florence Price was. A friend set her straight in 2016, sending along Price’s Fantasies nègres . As Cann told a rapt … »
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Youth Orchestra Delivers the Best
Don Carlo in Over 50 Years.

BOSTON—Those of us who have a special place in our hearts for Verdi’s Don Carlo must count ourselves lucky. For his annual semi-staged opera with the Boston Youth Orchestra, Federico Cortese conducted what may be Verdi’s most … »
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LSO Offers Impressive Gifts To and From Boulez

NEW YORK—When Pierre Boulez died in 2016, the world lost one of its most important authorities on modern music. A fierce polemicist who famously advocated blowing up the grandest opera houses, he mellowed in middle age, becoming recognized … »
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At the Cloisters: New Work as Empty Profundity

The “processional opera” Primero Sueño had its January 23 world premiere at the Cloisters, the Met Museum’s famed repository of European medieval art and architecture in upper Manhattan. True to its description, the … »
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