New York Classical Review

Superb singing makes up for the charm deficit of Met’s gritty, Southwest “Carmen”

All the more impressive, as he is simultaneously singing Giorgio in the Met’s new production of I Puritani, including The Met ...
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Young artists give rare cycles fresh life with Brooklyn Art Song

The Brooklyn Art Song Society is the leading presenter of art song in New York City, and the reason is they have a great roster of artists and programs that coverage an enormous range of the music ...
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Perez blossoms in return of Met’s “Butterfly”

Conductor Marco Armiliato, who should perhaps be christened Signor Butterfly after leading countless performances of the ...
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Chengcheng Ma’s piano recital goes from Boston to Hell and back

Forte International Group, the organization that presented pianist Chengcheng Ma in recital at Merkin Concert Hall Thursday ...
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Bellini’s music, fine cast carry the day over directorial excess in Met’s “Puritani”

This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome and complex proposition. The composer and his bel ...
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A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in belated Met premiere

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...
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Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of female voices

Benjamin Bernheim with admirers in the title role of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early ...
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“11,000 Strings” a sonic spectacular that fails to touch the heart

The title 11,000 Strings promises something grand, and indeed Georg Friedrich Haas’ piece is large-scale in physical scope, duration, and ambition. This is a piece for 50 pianos (the 11,000 strings) ...
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Met’s “Kavalier & Clay” mixes stunning production with largely lightweight music

Andrzej Filończyk (left) and Myles Mykkanen in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera The best works of art, in any medium, ...
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Met Opera’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” is a devastating, emotional tour de force

Ailyn Pérez as Blanche de la Force in Metropolitan Opera presentation of Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites.” Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Debuts abounded in the season premiere of Poulenc’s ...
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Cleveland Orchestra launches Carnegie’s Weimar Republic festival with vivid Bartók, pallid Mahler, Krenek

Franz Welser-Möst conducted the Cleveland Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. In music, the duchy (later city) of Weimar is remembered as home to Johann Sebastian Bach in the early 18 th ...
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Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon

Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Long before this year’s ...