BWW Reviews: NJ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at NJ Pac
Andre Watts is in love with the piano and the piano loves him.
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BWW Reviews: CINDERELLA Steals Hearts in Lyrical Production at Washington National Opera
CINDERELLA wins more than bracelets in Washington National Opera's closing opera of the season.
BWW Reviews: Tan Dun Martial Arts Trilogy at SF Symphony
San Francisco Symphony continues to provide innovative, new programming for its film series.
BWW Reviews: NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at NJPAC
Cancel all weekend plans and get the Count Basie Theater or NJPAC for this concert.
BWW Reviews: Without Gypsies or Mistaken Identities, Soprano Meade Wins Four-Sided Tug of War in ERNANI at the Met
Nine years before IL TROVATORE took the prize for Verdi's most outlandish story line--with gypsies, stolen babies and mistaken identities--there was ERNANI, with a different kind of complicated plot to make your head spin.
BWW Reviews: GOTTA DANCE at SF Symphony
San Francisco announced its new season recently, including the continuation of its film series with another John Williams favorite, ET, the reprise of Vertigo, and two Christmas classics - one a musical - Nightmare Before Christmas and It's A Wonderful Life.
BWW Reviews: Well-Strung Thrills with POPSSICAL Encore at 54 Below
New York City based string quartet Well-Strung returned to 54 Below on Friday, March 27, 2015.
BWW Reviews: KUBIAN, RACHMANINOFF & TCHAIKOVSKY NJSO at BergenPAC
Dramatic classical music.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci Is Only HUMAINE in Poulenc Opera at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall
It's an old story: Woman meets man.
BWW Reviews: Compelling THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE at Cleveland Play House
It is the intent of theater to educate and entertain, and, in the case of some special offerings, enrapture.
BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2015: GAVIN BRYARS ENSEMBLE WITH GUESTS Is A Complex Programme in Three Acts
The arrangements were as diverse as the songs, ranging from spine-tingling bowed harmonics on bass, 'cello and violas, to fluid and fluent electric guitar solo
BWW Reviews: Shaham Surmounts the Challenge of Unaccompanied Bach
ivolinist Gil Shaham pushed the envelope by programming three of these works in one evening
BWW Reviews: That Voice, Voluminous and Voluptuous, Marks Mezzo Jamie Barton Debut at Zankel Hall
It's the wrong time of year to expect a hurricane in New York, but that didn't stop mezzo Jamie Barton from taking Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall by storm this week.
BWW Reviews: HGO's MAGIC FLUTE Hits Every Note
I am taken back to the first Opera I saw as a kid and the pomp and circumstance with wearing a tux and walking to the lavish theatre; this was when I fell in love with classical music.
BWW Reviews: NYCB Dancers Prove Their Worth in ALL BACH
What determines an artistic institution's longevity? How does such an institution thrive after the social, political, and economic forces that engendered it have disappeared? Museums, orchestras, theater and dance companies face these questions as they struggle to succeed in the cultural Darwinism t
BWW Reviews: With Mattei as the Lead and Gilbert at the Helm, GIOVANNI Settles the Score at the Met
I consider Mozart's DON GIOVANNI at the top of my list of favorite operas--the music starts to go through my head without much encouragement and gets stuck there.
BWW Reviews: The DOCTOR WHO SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR Is A Feast For The Senses Delighting Fans Of All Ages
The DOCTOR WHO SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR is just that, Spectacular.
BWW Reviews: JASON ALEXANDER with Baltimore Symphony - What a Gifted Performer
Conductor Michael Krajewski subs for BSO Pops Conductor Jack Everly
BWW Reviews: NY Philharmonic Flexes Its Operatic Muscles with Verdi REQUIEM
With all its money problems, why hasn't the Met thought about doing some lesser known works in concert? Or, for that matter, marshalled some of its glamorous resources to put on the Verdi REQUIEM? For the time being, we have to be grateful for the New York Philharmonic and its Music Director Alan Gi
BWW Reviews: DOCTOR WHO SYMPHONIC SPECTACULAR Was Almost as Good as a Ride in the TARDIS
This was an evening that delighted every Whovian in the vast audience.
BWW Reviews: Midcoast Symphony Presents American Program
Maine's Midcoast Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rohan Smith presented a program of American composers, which included the rarely heard Symphony in E Minor by Amy Beach and music from George Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches, together with Ferde Grofe's well-known Grand Canyon Suite at Topsham
BWW Reviews: PENNY Finds Voice at Washington National Opera Premiere
The idea of finding your voice is a two way street in the world premiere one-hour opera PENNY.
BWW Reviews: CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Brings Magic to Columbus Stage
The Ohio Theatre's gilded halls were transformed into a dazzling display of majesty and mystery in Columbus Symphony's performance of 'Cirque de la Symphonie' on Saturday, Jan.
BWW Reviews: Hallelujah. The Collegiate Chorale Brings MESSIAH (Not) to Carnegie Hall
A funny thing happened on the way to Handel's MESSIAH: That would be Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN, transformed from the film by Eric Idle (the jokes) and John Du Prez (the music) into NOT THE MESSIAH (HE'S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY).