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Each year, a different group of teenage musicians joins the NYO-USA, and each year a different conductor, so the ensemble’s ...
The ongoing Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center brought out one of its major productions Thursday night, the local premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies. This is a headline event in David ...
Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...
The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...
“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...
In a program that swung from the Continental Divide to the Nile in a single bound, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 20 th anniversary Sunday night with a high-altitude performance in ...
Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...
Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening in a new production by Claus Guth. It is Guth’s first assignment at the Met, coming rather late in the 61-year-old German opera ...
Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...
Christina Nilsson sings the title role of Verdi’s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Aida returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Friday ...
New York audiences have gotten to know conductor Susanna Mälkki’s exceptional musicianship through her appearances as a guest with a number of orchestras. One of her consistent strengths with ...