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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Classics TodayLe Poisson Rouge, New York, NY; January 29, 2014–Terry Riley turns 80 in June 2015, and already the tributes are starting to roll in. On January 29th Berkeley-based pianist Sarah Cahill offered a Piano Party for Terry Riley at 80, honori...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Classical Life
Review: Szymanowski Quartet digs deep at Samueli. Orange County Register, Feb. 1, 2015
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: Congratulations to the winners of the 18th annual Sphinx Competition in Detroit, Mich.! The Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino strings players provides an opportunity for young musicians of color to compete under th...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletFebruary/March 2015 Getting the green light to audition in company class takes more than talent. With so many talented dancers competing for so few company jobs, it sometimes feels like a struggle just to be seen. Rather than pinning a n...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalPianist Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples, but he had a French spirit, championing music by Erik Satie, Debussy and Ravel. He died overnight Saturday at age 89.
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletTom Forde in Tosca (left) Tom Forde has been doing a little bit of everything lately. The last time we posted about him, he was taking time off from his ensemble work at the Zurich Opera to play the 7-11 clerk Omar in a Doritos commercia...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukCBSO Centre, Birmingham A taut tribute to Wolfgang Rihm was the standout in a series of commissions on the theme of air Continue reading...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: "Straight bow!" My teachers issued this directive at me hundreds of times, and over 20 years of teaching I've told my students the same Why is it so hard to play with a straight bow? Blame it on the way we humans are des...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Defying a computer breakdown and an online outage, I fled to a smoky Iranian Internet café to upload this performance of Don Giovanni . It was worth the trouble. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletMichael Adams at a Barihunks lunch in Ft. Worth (left) Barihunk Michael Adams took top honors at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Gulf Coast regional finals held in New Orleans. The 24-year-old Texas native wowed the jud...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
On this day in 1933, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France. -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseEyes and Ears. The New Yorker, Feb. 9, 2015.
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe city’s opera house remains open despite the dangers posed by the conflict between local separatists and Ukrainian forces Continue reading...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedRobin Tritschler is making a name for himself not only as a tenor with an unusually pure sound, but also as an adventurous programmer: his new CD No Exceptions No Exemptions is a fascinating collection of songs by poets and composers who...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTWolfgang Rihm's Tutuguri is legend. Everyone's heard of it but not many have heard it first hand. live. because it;'s just too massive. Organizing performance must be a logistical nightmare. We've waited nearly 35 years to hear its Londo...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Classical NotesEvery Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge to talk about stories we’re featuring on our website. Here are the stories I’ll be discussing this morning with Alison Young, who’s in for John today. 2015 marks the 75th ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicLes Contes d'Hoffmann - act one Metropolitan Opera, New York Offenbach Les Contes d'Hoffmann ; Vittorio Grigolo, Thomas Hampson, Kate Lindsey cond: Yves Abel, dir: Bartlett Sher; HD Live broadcast from Metropolitan Opera, New York Review...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKeel Watson (Macbeth) and Banquo's Ghost English Pocket Opera Company - Photo Emily Bestow Verdi Macbeth ; English Pocket Opera Company, Central St Martin's; Platform Theatre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jan 31 2015 Vibrant performances ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from JDCMBThe Amati Magazine, redesigned and under new editorship, kicks off in earnest today with my first Editor's Lunch: a series in which I treat hand-picked luminaries to lunch. Britain's greatest living cellist seemed like a good person for ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe clarinettist tells us about his musical tastes on and off the concert platform Continue reading...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukA concert by the London Symphony Orchestra christens the newly refurbished venue on London’s South Bank Pomp and circumstance: Jonathan Glancey on the £111m refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall Continue reading...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSt Kilda festival ends with a bang, the Sydney Opera House turns Viennese for a night, and the Institute of Modern Art launch kicks off its 2015 program Continue reading...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
I spent a few hours this morning watching Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Lohengrin for the Bayerische Staatsoper, with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role and Anja Harteros as Elsa. I am not sure that even this production, which was... -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet[the frock might be Gabriel Eisenstein (last taken off a tenor by Rosalinde, and really, could she not have picked a mezzo instead?), but the tie is possibly Bonanza. Which is is Rosenkavalier scenario I had not really considered before....
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet50th Season Gala Concert with Juan Diego Florez Helzberg Hall
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from - Classical RSS FeedRobin Tritschler is making a name for himself not only as a tenor with an unusually pure sound, but also as an adventurous programmer: his new CD No Exceptions No Exemptions is a fascinating collection of songs by poets and composers who...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletJames Newby as Eugene Onegin in London British barihunk James Newby is performing two very different lovers, both of whom don't see their stories end too well. He just wrapped up a run in the title role of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at ...
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Monday, February 2, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
I have a confession to make: for me all too often best things in Wagner happen in the orchestral pit, under the text and the plots, in the score. The Ring plot, ridden with arbitrary cause and effect connections, intricate feudal-like lo... -
Monday, February 2, 2015 from Music and VisionMusic by John Pickard, heard by Andrew Schartmann. '... a thrilling listening experience.'
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletNot being an avid news reader, I only just read about the Netrebko/Gergiev involvement with Putin. Of course there are two sides to every story but seriously: why? I don’t believe that either of them supports Putin out of some stro...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletIf you haven't already signed up for Instagram to follow Joyce DiDonato (she's who finally drew me over to the dark side) here's another good reason to give it a try: Luca Pisaroni 3 hrs · I’ll take over The Metropolita...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Joshua KosmanAny rendition of Steve Reich’s early minimalist masterpiece “Drumming” should be at once a gleaming, sleekly calibrated musical machine and a full-on immersive experience. The results came through on Saturday with a 75-minute rendition t...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Classical Life
Review: Pacific Symphony pays tribute to Bernstein. Orange County Register, Jan. 30, 2015.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletA pro-Ukrainian protester jumped on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday, and held up a sign equating Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler . This happened after a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Iolanta , conducted by Valery Gergi...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Karen Allendoerfer: WHOA! That’s what Maestro Wilkins asked us to write in the music. It was one of the toughest passages in a challenging program. It was that part in the Liszt that gets your heart pumping and adrenaline flowing (“wh...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukOnce the ENO stood for something. Now the artform no longer feels as if it speaks to its audience Continue reading...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletWhen they tell the story of the Peter Gelb years at the Metropolitan Opera , and they get down to the new productions that he brought to the house, I am sure that Bartlett Sher 's kaleidoscopic vision of Jacques Offenbach 's Les Contes d...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletAs Mike Leigh prepares to direct 'The Pirates of Penzance', he tells Rupert Christiansen about his life-long love for Gilbert and Sullivan
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletBrian Mextorf We briefly introduced Brian Mextorf back in September 2013, when he was workshopping composer Clint Borzoni's Antinuous and Hadrian with Operamission in New York City. He recently was named a winner of the Metropolitan Oper...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The BBC Symphony Orchestra's day-long celebration of percussion left Ivan Hewett underwhelmed
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTFlorian Boesch and Roger Vignoles at the Wigmore Hall in Ernst Krenek Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen . Matthias Goerne has called Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch the Winterreise of the 20th century. Boesch and Vigno...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWigmore Hall, London Florian Boesch and Roger Vignoles proved their exceptional talents in this unforgettable recital of a 1929 work by Austrian modernist Ernst Krenek Continue reading...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
There are some concert pianists today who spend considerable time on stage exploring the four levels of loud playing — forte, fortissimo, bangissimo and blastissimo — apparently in the belief that if they play fast enough and loud enough... -
Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBarbican, London This percussion-themed Total Immersion event concluded with Wolfgang Rihm’s daunting Tutuguri – a two-hour blast of pounding, primeval violence Continue reading...
