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Stellar second cast continues the bel canto delights in Met’s “Barber of Seville” – May 17, 2025

The Metropolitan Opera has struck gold twice this season with Rossini’s Il […]

Parlando closes season with a concise cabaret night – May 03, 2025

Parlando concluded its season with the launch of “The Cabaret Project” […]

Met’s new “Salome” mixes dark backstory with vocal, orchestral bravura – Apr 30, 2025

Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening in […]

Nilsson’s luminous debut lifts the Met’s Tomb Raider “Aida” – Mar 15, 2025

Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Aida returned to the Metropolitan […]

Parlando movingly explores spiritual matters from Dessner to Vaughan Williams – Feb 24, 2025

Ian Niederhoffer and Parlando returned to Merkin Hall on Sunday afternoon […]

Charm vies with silliness in Venetian serenades with Falk, Nuovo Aspetto – Feb 10, 2025

Music Before 1800 presented “Il Gondoliere Veneziano”on Sunday afternoon at Corpus […]

Blue Heron returns to New York with fascinating Regis mass – Feb 03, 2025

The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron specializes in 15th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony—music […]

Sequentia spins a medieval German saga for Music Before 1800 – Jan 13, 2025

Early music concerts are a form of time travel. With “Gregorius—The […]

Terfel returns to Met, ignites with Radvanovsky in “Tosca” – Jan 10, 2025

Passions raged and voices seared in Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera […]

Tenor Pati makes an ardent Met debut in “Rigoletto” – Jan 07, 2025

Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a […]

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