BWW Review: It's Fine and Memorable, No DOUBT About It
Christine Brewer stars in 'DOUBT' at Union Avenue Opera.
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BWW Review: ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2016: GRIGORYAN MUTHSPIEL SCHAUPP WITH THE AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET Closed A Fabulous Festival In Style
Great credit is given to the Artistic Director, Slava Grigoryan, for making this a world class event.
BWW Review: MEMORIES OF SPAIN Brought A Hint Of Andalusian Summer To Adelaide's Winter
I defy anybody to listen to the music of Spain without experiencing a noticeable lifting of their spirits.
BWW Review: ADELAIDE GUITAR FESTIVAL 2016: RICARDO GALLEN AND BOGDAN MIHAILESCU Opened The Festival Superbly
This was a marvellous start to the 2016 Festival.
BWW Review: Culture Matters! Silk Road Ensemble Enthralls Capacity Crowd at Blossom
It was a soggy night at Blossom, but neither the rain nor the humidity dampened the enthusiasm of the crowd that filled the pavilion and covered much of the lawn for the Saturday, August 13 evening concert of the Silk Road Ensemble.
BWW CD Review: Seattle Symphony, Morlot, Pay Homage to Henri Dutilleux
Not many conductors have the privilege to be mentored by a living composer.
BWW Review: Elza van den Heever Thrills in Her 'Date' with Beethoven's FIDELIO at Caramoor
South African soprano Elza van den Heever has long had a 'date' with Beethoven's Leonore, in his only completed opera FIDELIO.
BWW Review: Passions Blaze in Union Avenue's TOSCA
The Union Avenue Opera just keeps presenting wonders! Their current production, Puccini's 'Tosca', is among the very best of their best-musically, vocally and in production values.
BWW Review: The JACK Quartet Says Hello/Goodbye
The Quartet's first Maine concert is one of its last with all of the original members.
BWW Reviews: WITCHES WITH YOUR SSO ENCHANTS IN SYMPHONIC SPELLCRAFT at Sydney Opera House
The witching hour was brought forward by a margin over the weekend when four of Australia's most wicked and wonderful took the stage backed by the magical Sydney Symphony Orchestra for a most spellbinding concert full of passion, humour and sonic sorcery.
BWW Review: ADELAIDE CONCERT COLLECTIVE - MOZART AND BACH Presented Old Favourites
This was a very well crafted performance of two relatively familiar works by JS Bach and Mozart.
BWW Review: BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II Delights Audiences Of All Ages by Synchronising Live Orchestral Music And Classic Cartoons
BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II is a crowd pleasing collection of iconic cartoons and live performance of the classical music that lifts them to be so much more than children's entertainment.
BWW Review: ANTHONY DE MARE Brings Majesty and Mastery for THE LIAISONS PROJECT at Hayes Theatre
We've all felt the sensation where we talk fondly about artistic legends from our time only to discover someone younger or of another genre having no idea and genuinely concerning you that your icons might be lost someday entirely, and what a sad day that would be.
BWW Review: Down the River with Catan's FLORENCIA at New York City Opera
If you're a fan of Puccini-esque music and the “magic realism” of the great Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Daniel Catan's FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS may be for you.
BWW Review: The Met's SummerStage Recital Has a Date with an 'Angel'
The weather, the stars and “the stars” aligned the other night in Central Park, when the Metropolitan Opera performed its annual recital at SummerStage.
BWW Review: On Site Opera's FIGARO a Charming Diversion that's Not Mozart
“Bride's side or groom's? I'm Count Almaviva,” said the elegant actor as we entered what, we are told, is the Count's summer palace.
BWW Review: HAIRSPRAY in Concert with Baltimore Symphony Featuring John Waters as Narrator
Audience is enthralled with BSO again featuring the musical HAIRSPRAY
BWW Review: ERWIN SCHULHOFF RETROSPECTIVE Swings at Center for Jewish History
Recently honored as a Lower East Side Community Hero, pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe walked onstage on the evening of May 25th 2016 at the Center for Jewish History in NYC.
BWW Review: Opera Theatre of St. Louis Offers a Powerful World Premiere of SHALIMAR THE CLOWN
Salman Rushdie's tale of love and vengeance becomes a powerful opera in this commissioned work at Opera Theatre of St.
BWW Opera Review: What's Old is New Again in CARMEN from Bad-Boy Bieito for US Debut at San Francisco Opera
For a director known as opera's bad boy, Calixto Bieito turned to something awfully familiar in CARMEN for his US debut.
BWW Review: INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY Orchestra and Dancers Gave a Stellar Concert as Part of the NY Philharmonic Biennial
I was delighted but not surprised by the polished professionalism of the teenage musicians and dancers from Michigan's Interlochen Center for the Arts who performed on the afternoon of June 5th 2016 at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center as part of the New York Philharmonic's Biennial celebration.
BWW Review: ZORN Conducts at YIVO
One century ago, 200,000 New Yorkers mourned in the streets, representing the best-attended funeral procession in the history of the city to date.
BWW Opera Review: Not Wild for Barry's Earnest Take on Wilde's EARNEST at NY PHIL BIENNIAL
“There is no sense in which [the play] THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST needs to be an opera.
BWW Review, Part I: Part's MISERERE and Mozart's REQUIEM a Pair to Remember with Dudamel and LA Philharmonic
Early in May, Gustavo Dudamel—the brilliant music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic—was booed at the opening of TURANDOT at the Vienna State Opera purportedly for playing too loud.
BWW Review: A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS at Academy Of Music
May 12th 2016 - May 15th 2016 By Balanchine, Neenan, & Scarlett, music by Tchaikovsky, Poulenc & Herion May 12, 2016 to May 15, 2016 - Academy of Music