BWW Review: Louisville's SPRING COLLABORATION - Artists Are Breaking Out
The Louisville Orchestra and Louisville Ballet Spring Collaboration may be one of those nights we will talk about in the future.
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BWW Review: TRIAL BY JURY At Baltimore's Historic Westminster Hall - A Victorian Treat
Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta performed by Baltimore lawyers and judges along with performers from the Young Victorian Theatre Company is just plain well-done!
BWW Review: Furlanetto Shows Mastery in San Diego Concert
One of San Diego Opera's most cherished stage luminaries
BWW Review: Diva Netrebko Casts Spell at Metropolitan Opera Recital
Anna Netrebko came out on stage in a shimmering white and silver gown with matching headband, looking like an Art Deco goddess in a poster by Alfonso Mucha.
BWW Review: Darren Criss, Betsy Wolfe, and the National Symphony Bring a Little Broadway to Kennedy Center
One thing I can always count on when I go to a National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Pops concert featuring music of the Great White Way - and perhaps beyond - is that the accomplished musicians and their exceptional conductor Steven Reineke will give it all the energy, vigor and verve it deserves.
BWW Review: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2016 Season Opener MAURICE STEGER: RECORDER REVOLUTIONARY Is A Sensational Showcase Of the Simple Instrument.
The energetic, engaging and enthusiastic Maurice Steger joins with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra to delight audiences with the amazingly complex music that he can produce from the seemingly simple instrument for RECORDER REVOLUTIONARY.
BWW Review: SUTTON FOSTER Sparkles in Performance with the Baltimore Symphony
Principal Baltimore Symphony Pops Conductor Jack Everly presents top notch entertainment.
BWW Review: High Art in Small Places, Part II - Von Stade's Bountiful Trip to EGYPT at American Songbook
Lincoln Center's American Songbook series doesn't usually cross the road to opera-land, but I'm glad it did, when it presented the Ricky Ian Gordon-Leonard Foglia chamber opera A COFFIN IN EGYPT with mezzo extraordinaire Frederica von Stade last week.
BWW Review: Broadway Valentine Exceeded All Expectations
The Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra exceeded all expectations on February 13 when it presented BROADWAY VALENTINE, a salute to some of the best love songs on Broadway.
BWW Review: Kristen Chenoweth with the Louisville Orchestra
There are a lot of superlatives that have been thrown around about the World Renowned Kristin Chenoweth: Stunning, personable, fun, entertaining.
BWW Review: Kaufmann's Out, Alagna's In with Opolais in Met's New Film-Noir MANON LESCAUT
Take one part “Casablanca,” a taste of Bernstein's CANDIDE, some Alfred Hitchcock and you get Sir Richard Eyre's film noir concept for the Met's new MANON LESCAUT, now set in France in the 1940s, complete with Nazis.
BWW Review: NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC MAHLER 6TH SYMPHONY at David Geffen Hall
Bychkov leads the NY Philharmonic a magnificent and majestic Mahler 6th.
BWW Review: Spectacular Sleepwalking in Bellini's SONNAMBULA at Juilliard Opera
It's a shame that Bellini wasn't Donizetti--because the story of LA SONNAMBULA seems to be begging for the full comic treatment and could have been a great companion to L'ELISIR D'AMORE.
BWW Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET Triumphs With 'La Sylphide' and 'Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2'
Peter Martins' reconstruction of the 1836 tragicomedy, 'La Sylphide', and Balanchine's 1972 update of 'Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No.
BWW Review: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Joins With Diana Krall For The Sydney Leg Of Her WALLFLOWER WORLD TOUR
Diana Krall's deep smoky jazz fills Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall as she teams up with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the first Australian stop of her WALLFLOWER WORLD TOUR.
BWW Review: THE OTHER MOZART restores a genius at Aux Dog Nob Hill
A prodigy in her own right but suppressed because she was a woman and forgotten in the shadow of her brother Wolfgang, Maria Anna Mozart tells her true story in a galvanizing, intimate one-woman show, 'The Other Mozart,' touring from New York and playing at the Aux Dog Theater Nob Hill until January
BWW Review: All Puccini, All the Time at the Met with LA BOHEME and TURANDOT
Sometimes, the Metropolitan Opera seems like an endless Puccini festival.
BWW Review: Apollo's Fire, Cleveland's 'Other' Internationally Recognized Orchestra Presents 'Sephardic Journey'
Apollo's Fire, Cleveland's 'other' orchestra is credited with having built the largest audience in the nation for 'early-music' (Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical).
BWW Review: CSO Brings Great Joy to Geffen Hall
When I'm sitting down to listen to a piece I can name my top 5 favorite recordings of in order with detailed reasons of why they're ranked as such, it's hard to not have certain expectations.
BWW Review: Cleveland Orchestra Plays All Beethoven Concert with Yefim Bronfman
A recent trip to New York included a tour of Carnegie Hall.
BWW Review: ON SONDHEIM: An Opinionated Guide
As a self-proclaimed Broadway and theatre aficionado, I certainly thought I had a solid working knowledge of Stephen Sondheim.
BWW Review: New York Pops and Carnegie Hall Present A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
On Sunday, December 20, at 3:00 PM in the Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute presented A Charlie Brown Christmas.
BWW Review: Jodi Benson and Charlie Brown at SF Symphony
San Francisco continues a – hopefully – new tradition this week with “A Charlie Brown Christmas – Live!” This delightful program had its West Coast premiere last season, with first-half vocals from Lisa Vroman and the Symphony Chorus.
BWW Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at SF Symphony
Performer Brian Stokes Mitchell speaks of his desire to uplift his audience by adding character to his music.
BWW Review: GRADUATE SINGERS – NATIVITY Points The Way Towards Christmas
Sixty singers under the direction of Karl Geiger, made a suitably strong and joyful noise in Nativity.
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Victor Santiago Asuncion Carnegie Hall (11/10-11/10) |
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American Composers Orchestra: Hello, America: We Gather Here at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (10/27-10/27) |
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American Composers Orchestra: New Virtuoso: Low End Theory at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (3/18-3/18) |