Archive for September, 2026

Tenet’s “Orfeo” sounds contemporary notes in a brilliant, affecting staged-opera debut – Sep 27, 2026

Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo is sometimes called “the first opera.”  Scholars suggest […]

Kramer opera fails to conjure Yeats mystery effectively at Fordham   – Sep 27, 2026

For Irish history lovers, Lawrence Kramer’s new chamber opera The Dreaming of […]

Dudamel leads the Philharmonic in a Mahler Fifth of depth and complex beauty  – Sep 26, 2026

Toward the end of the 2024-25 season, Gustavo Dudamel led the […]

Tenor sub brings a welcome Puccini reunion in Met’s opening-cast “Bohème” – Sep 26, 2026

La Bohème doesn’t call for a Heldentenor. Not in the Wagnerian sense, […]

Lombardi and Hankey lift the musical values in Met’s frenetic Coney Island “Così” – Sep 24, 2026

The Metropolitan Opera’s Coney Island Così fan tutte returned to the […]

Met opens season with impassioned vocalism in an atmospheric “Macbeth” – Sep 23, 2026

The Metropolitan Opera’s “The Voice Matters” slogan appears on a banner […]

September 27 – Sep 22, 2026

The Orchestra NowZachary Schwartzmann, conductorVerdi: La forza del destino OvertureMahler: TotenfeierWagner: Prelude and Liebestod […]

ACO opens season in style with dramatic Haydn, bumptious Beethoven – Sep 18, 2026

The American Classical Orchestra found the sweet spot for the opening […]

Dudamel opens new Philharmonic era with a 9/11 remembrance and a raucous premiere – Sep 17, 2026

It might seem odd to celebrate the arrival of a long-awaited […]

Morton Feldman squarely in the mainstream at Graphic Content Festival   – Sep 12, 2026

Can you play Morton Feldman’s chamber music the way you’d play, […]

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