Bravo! Vail Music Festival Announces 35th Season, June 23 - August 4, 2022
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 11, 2022
The internationally acclaimed Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra joins Bravo! Vail for its second year in residency at the Festival. World-renowned resident orchestras-the New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra-return with 17 inspiring programs led by seven prominent conductors, including Jaap van Zweden, Fabio Luisi, and Nathalie Stutzmann.
Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 25, 2022
The Grand Teton Music Festival has announced its 61st season, led by Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles, July 3 to August 27, 2022. The 2022 Festival features an opera initiative, a new Sunday afternoon piano recital series showcasing virtuosic pianists, robust orchestral offerings, the continuation of the Gateway Series and more.
Washington National Opera Presents Marian Anderson Vocal Award 2021 Recipient, Frederick Ballentine
by A.A. Cristi
- Nov 22, 2021
Named for the groundbreaking African American contralto, the Marian Anderson Vocal Award recognizes a young American singer in opera, oratorio, or recital repertoire with outstanding promise for a significant career. Earlier this year, Washington National Opera (WNO) named tenor Frederick Ballentine as the 2021 recipient and will present him in concert on Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.
BWW Review: Gershwin's PORGY & BESS Returns to the Met with a Grand Bess in Angel Blue
by Richard Sasanow
- Nov 6, 2021
There are so many things to like about the season’s revival of Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS, which was new in the 2019-2020 season, before Covid became the “song” that no one wanted to hear.
PORGY on the other hand, is the music that everybody can take a liking to, with its fluid combination of opera, Broadway musical and versions of spirituals and Gullah folk music that nobody ever heard before. It has been best known for its songs, which have become “standards” in the Broadway songbook. The stylistic shifts in the complex, yearning, comic score are handled mightily by the Met’s game orchestra under David Robinson.
Puccini's LA BOHEME Returns to the Met Stage Next Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Nov 5, 2021
South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim, who became music director of San Francisco Opera this fall, will make her Met debut leading Puccini’s La Bohème November 9, marking the first of five female conductors to take the Met podium this season—the most in Met history.
The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS Will Return to The Met
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Oct 28, 2021
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess will return to the Met for 13 performances, October 31–December 12, 2021. The classic American opera features many artists from the triumphant 2019–20 production’s Grammy Award-winning cast. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star as the title couple, with conductor David Robertson on the podium.
BWW Review: The Met's Short Version of BORIS is Good-Enough for Me
by Richard Sasanow
- Sep 30, 2021
The Lady or the Tiger? In this case, both are Mussorgsky’s BORIS GODUNOV—just different versions of it. Which is the preferred one? (Or, more properly, “the preferred one of several,” including one that the composer’s friend, Rimsky Korsakov, fiddled with after his death.) The Met chose Mussorgsky's original, and shorter, version for its revival of the composer's most famous opera this season.
BWW Review: SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY'S OPENING CONCERT AT THE NEW RADY SHELL AMPHITHEATER in Jacobs Park
by Ron Bierman
- Aug 11, 2021
What was a makes-you-jump BOOM!! doing in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue? Had someone mistakenly lit an 1812 Overture cannon? Were we under attack?! Oh wait! It was just a bass drum resonating through the San Diego Symphony’s spectacular new state-of-the-art sound system at the Rady Shell. And so, Rafael Payare’s initial in-person public concert during his first full season as music director, though a year late because of COVID-19, was a booming success.
Photos: The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park Celebrates Its Opening Weekend
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 9, 2021
The Rady Shell officially opened on August 6 with Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony in the world premiere of a new work for orchestra and turntable by Mason Bates and performances featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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