BWW Reviews: TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Opens 'The Christmas Attic' at Consol Energy Center
The legendary hard rock Christmas spectacular brings two shows for the price of one, plus lasers, dragons and real fake snow.
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BWW Reviews: DOHNANYI DOES DVORAK at Avery Fisher Hall
The only thing missing from the opening week of the New York Philharmonic's 'Dohnanyi/Dvorak' festival was Dohnanyi.
BWW Reviews: Heigh Ho, Silver. GUGLIELMO TELL Rides into Carnegie Hall from Turin with Soprano Meade under Noseda
As 'king of the overture,' Rossini certainly knew how to put an audience in a good mood and his GUGLIELMO TELL--better known as WILLIAM TELL--is no exception.
BWW Reviews: NEW WORLD SYMPHONY Caps a Program of Virtuoso Performances
JoAnn Falletta guest conducts the Phoenix Symphony with authority, conviction, and intensity.
BWW Reviews:NSO POPS: AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER at The Kennedy Center
Friday's NSO Pops Evening with Sutton Foster brought a bounty of talent to the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall stage, and, wisely, paired it with a program that spanned styles, mediums, and musical genres.
BWW Reviews: TROUT EN FIN! Presented Youthful Works By Great Composers
There is something about certain pieces of music that attract nicknames.
BWW Reviews: RELATIVITY Explores Works By Pairs Of Composers Who Are Related In Some Way
The change of program necessitated by the new line up was still an impressive evening.
BWW Reviews: BSO Takes Strathmore on a Journey Through Russia
From Tchaikovsky to Rachmaninoff to Shostakovich, the BSO treated the Music Center at Strathmore to a musical journey that bridged romantic and contemporary Russian music.
BWW Reviews: Arizona Opera's RIGOLETTO Is Grand and Gripping
Arizona Opera's production of Rigoletto, directed by Fenlon Lamb, is a noble and well-constructed effort in portraying the ironic misjudgments of its main characters.
BWW Reviews: Playful Piano & Puppetry in Debussy's 'La Boîte à Joujoux' at Castleton
The Castleton Festival, a longtime fixture on the classical music scene located a comfortable hour and a half from Washington, DC, recently celebrated Debussy's playful side with a full performance of his piece for piano, La Boite a Joujoux ('The Toy Box').
BWW Reviews: Winter Opera St. Louis Opens a Brilliant 'Le Nozze di Figaro'
Winter Opera kicks off its eighth season with a simply heavenly production of 'Le Nozze di Figaro'.
BWW Reviews: DiDonato Trades Pyrotechnics for Mood on A JOURNEY THROUGH VENICE at Carnegie Hall
With a pair of soulful arias by Vivaldi, mezzo Joyce DiDonato and her pianist David Zobel let the audience know right away that they were in for a different part of her artistry than we heard at her concert performance of Handel's ALCINA (also at Carnegie) a week earlier.
BWW Reviews: New York Philharmonic's SHOW BOAT
All aboard! The Cotton Blossom has docked at Lincoln Center for this week only.
BWW Reviews: Britten's RIVER of No Return at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival
“Ideas of darkness and light, obscurity and illumination” are at the heart of the Benjamin Britten-William Plomer CURLEW RIVER.
BWW Reviews: New Jersey Symphony Performs STRAVINSKY and RIMSKY-KORSAKOV at Bergen PAC
Petrouchka is an often performed piece that can sometimes feel tired and perfunctory.
BWW Reviews: MOZART's THE MAGIC FLUTE: IMPEMPE YOMLINGO at the New Victory Theater supplies charm and creativity but lacks true resonance
The South African Isango Ensemble's production of 'The Magic Flute: Impepe Yomlingo,' strips away some of the glossy sheen of Mozart's master work, leaving a show that is more down to earth and yet still revels in the joy of the composer's music.
BWW Reviews: Sorcery from DiDonato and English Concert at Carnegie Hall in Handel's ALCINA
The great mezzo Joyce DiDonato stripped for her art at Sunday's wonderful performance of Handel's ALCINA with the English Concert under conductor Harry Bicket.
BWW Reviews: Well-Strung's POPSSICAL is Astoundingly Vibrant
Well-Strung is impressing audiences with their brilliant mash-ups of classical hits and modern pop standards.
BWW Reviews: THE NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY with VIOLINIST GIL SHAHAM at NJ PAC
If Gioacchino Rossini had written no music in his career other than his overtures, he would still hold a great place in the pantheon of music history.
BWW Reviews: Here, There, Everywhere - All Over Town with PRETTY YENDE
Pretty Yende--a name that in itself brings certain expectations as well as smiles--burst on the New York opera scene at the start of 2013, in a baptism by fire.
BWW Reviews: Cancellations Galore Don't Put a Damper on the Richard Tucker Gala at Avery Fisher Hall
Soprano Anna Netrebko was AWOL.
BWW Reviews: Keith Emerson With the South Shore Symphony
As birthday celebrations go, Saturday night's concert at the Madison Theater of Molloy College has to be close to the top of the list.
BWW Reviews: VIVA PIAZZOLLA Invigorates at The Shabazz Center
Uruguayan tango pianist Polly Ferman invited a warm audience to her neighborhood of Washington Heights for the second night of the “Shall We Tango?” festival, titled Viva Piazzolla, a special concert featuring virtuosic violinist Eddy Marcano.
BWW Reviews: HOMAGE TO ANIBAL TROILO Inspires at Symphony Space
After one hundred years, Anibal Troilo is remembered ever so fondly as the late Argentinean master musician.