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Review: WENWEN DU AND IAN BOSTRIDGE IN RECITAL at the Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre
What did our critic think of WENWEN DU AND IAN BOSTRIDGE IN RECITAL at Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre?...
Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS 'DER FREISCHÜTZ' at Carnegie Hall
Leon Botstein has a special aptitude for finding under-appreciated and rarely (if ever) performed works for orchestra. While it must be understood that not everything committed to paper by any composer is a jewel of perfection....
Review: 'CHANGED FOR GOOD' THE NEW YORK POPS 43RD ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at Carnegie Hall
What did our critic think of 'CHANGED FOR GOOD' THE NEW YORK POPS 43RD ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at Carnegie Hall?...
Review: JULIETTA at Wrocław Opera
What can you do with a 90-year-old piece about a man madly in love, slowly slipping into a dream he has no desire to wake up from? Quite a lot, it turns out....
Review: LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opera Royal De Wallonie Liège
Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that feels fully aligned with what opera stands for, vocal mastery, ritual, and a visual world built to carry myth sized emotion....
Review: San Diego Opera Performs Bizet's CARMEN at San Diego Civic Center
Carmen is the world’s third most performed opera. Its tale of the doomed love affair between an innocent young soldier and a beguiling young woman unconstrained by conventional beliefs was seen in more than 6,000 productions on five continents last year. This performance was in the opera’s origi...
Review: The Philadelphia Delivers a Titanic Mahler 2 at Carnegie Hall
On March 10 at Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra brought Gustav Mahler’s towering Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection,” to New York under the direction of its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin....
Review: A Night with Audra Mcdonald Delivers at The Florida Orchestra Gala at Straz Center
The Quintessential voice, the one and only Audra McDonald. Captivating the room and singing selections from Broadway’s Great American Songbook, totaling 15 incredible selections in a swift 90-minute presentation. ...
Review: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE at Winter Opera
Opera is widely considered to be a seasonal flower. Around the world opera festivals show their shoots in early spring, they blossom in the summer, and they stretch their glory into the fall. In St. Louis, though, we find one of the few fine opera companies willing to brave the icy blasts of win...
Review: SAUL at LONDON HANDEL FESTIVAL, Sinfonia Smith Square
Opening the London Handel Fetsival, this flawless presentation of Saul was a celebration of Handel that set the tone of the performances to follow. The acoustics in the hall were exceptional, with clear enunciation throughout and a sense of occasion....
Review: FORGING AN AMERICAN MUSICAL IDENTITY at Carnegie Hall
What is the American musical identity? A question for this special year!...
Review: IVAN FISHER AND THE BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall
On February 7 at Carnegie Hall, the Budapest Festival Orchestra offered a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 that did not merely impress — it recalibrated expectations....
Review: CLASSICAL MIXTAPE: A LIVE TAKEOVER, Southbank Centre
Classical Mixtape: A Live Takeover is part of the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary programme. Aimed at the under-30s audience, who are underrepresented at the venue, the event offered a casual, relaxed and social approach to classical music. However, a brilliant concept sadly fell short in organ...
Review: San Diego Symphony Performs Mahler's Seventh Symphony at Jacobs Music Center
Jaha Ling led the San Diego Symphony’s first performance of Mahler’s seventh symphony in 2014, more than a century after the orchestra was founded. He called it “the most modern of all Mahler symphonies.”
Many critics have made similar judgements, the more conservative among them meant it a...
Review: THE COLORADO SYMPHONY WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN at Carnegie Hall
What did our critic think of THE COLORADO SYMPHONY WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN at Carnegie Hall?...
Review: SOUNDS AND SWELLS at The Conrad
Art of Elan launched the Sounds and Swells series several years ago. Artistic Director Eric Starr describes its unusual programs as “a curated pairing of surfing footage and classical music.” The music and footage vary from one performance to another, but always include one or more California co...
Review: BROADWAY SYMPHONIC at Salle Pleyel
Bernstein, Sondheim & Loewe reimagined through full orchestral arrangements at Salle Pleyel. The symphonic treatment of West Side Story alone is worth the price of admission—this is Broadway elevated to concert hall artistry. Exceptional vocalists, brilliant conducting, world-class tap dancers. A ...
Review: ORPHEUS FOR ALL at Carnegie Hall
For fifty years Orpheus has been confounding and amazing audiences with their exceptional variety of repertoire, its fine execution, and overall excellence, all without a conductor on a podium. ...
Review: WHERE THE SHINING TRUMPETS BLOW at Jacobs Music Center
What did our critic think of WHERE THE SHINING TRUMPETS BLOW at Jacobs Music Center?
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy's Magical Horn) is a collection of more than 700 German folk poems and songs compiled in the early 19th Century. Several notable composers, including Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, ...
Review: PORGY AND BESS at Houston Grand Opera
What did our critic think of PORGY AND BESS at Houston Grand Opera? As Houston performing arts ventures grow for the 2025-26 season, Houston Grand Opera surpasses them all with a thrilling 50th anniversary production of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. S...
Review: ROMANTIC VISIONS at Jacobs Music Center
What did our critic think of ROMANTIC VISIONS at Jacobs Music Center? Conductor Rafael Payare showed why in a performance driven with his usual gymnastic vigor....
Review: OPERA À LA CARTE'S ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Del Mar
What did our critic think of OPERA À LA CARTE'S PRODUCTION OF OFFENBACH'S ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Of Del Mar? With even large companies struggling to survive, why did soprano and voice teacher Abla Hamza decide to found Opera À La Carte?
Her goals were laudable. ...
Review: BBC PROMS: LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2025, Royal Albert Hall
After 86 concerts spanning over the past eight weeks, the 130th season of the Proms has come to a close, ending with the iconic Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, which has hosted over 3,000 musicians these past few months. This performance brings together the BBC Singers, BBC Symphon...
Review: BBC PROMS: GOLDA SCHULTZ SINGS GERSHWIN AND BERNSTEIN, Royal Albert Hall
South African soprano Golda Schultz is always a treat to hear; with honeyed tones, rich storytelling and nimble versatility, the programme at Saturday's prom was an excellent vehicle to show off her considerable skills....
Review: BBC PROMS: CLASSIC THRILLER SOUNDTRACKS, Royal Albert Hall
'Who doesn't check twice behind the shower curtain now?' asks presenter Edith Bowman, kicking off a spinetingling evening of thriller film soundtracks from the excellent BBC Concert Orchestra, under the assured direction of American conductor Edwin Outwater at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall....
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