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Mostly Mozart takes on Rossini's Stabat Mater 16 Aug 2013 | 06:13 am
disclaimer: ad for a different concert. I promise I won't start this Mostly Mozart review with a note that their recently-vaunted innovation is, in most concerts, invisible. This hook has proven awfu...
Figaro at the Mostly Mozart Festival 12 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
I went to see Le Nozze di Figaro at the Mostly Mozart Festival and I wrote about it for Bachtrack: In his program note, conductor-director Iván Fischer describes his Mostly Mozart Festival production...
Regie Update 6 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
Herheim Meistersinger Peter Gelb is in Salzburg and dropping big hints about the Met's future, which include importing Stefan Herheim's new production of Meistersinger, an unnamed production by Calix...
Metropoitan Opera, 2013-2014 4 Aug 2013 | 02:13 am
Onegin is pictured in Act 3 while Tatiana is in Act 1. Single tickets for the Met's 2013-14 season go on sale on August 11 (and sooner for donors), so I thought it was time to write my annual preview...
Mostly Mozzzzzzzart 2 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
The Mostly Mozart Festival! More like Mostly Doze-art, amirite? Sorry, that’s cruel, but neither was I convinced by this Times piece about how Lincoln Center’s July/August celebration of the familiar ...
Matsukaze at the Lincoln Center Festival 22 Jul 2013 | 01:34 am
Remember me? I went to see Toshio Hosokawa's Matsukaze at the Lincoln Center Festival and I wrote about it for Bachtrack. Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze is in many ways a model of modern cross-cul...
Opera on the interwebs 1 Jul 2013 | 02:11 am
If you, like me, are feeling opera-deprived, there's some great stuff to watch on the internet. The Guardian is blowing some whistles that have nothing to do with American politics: as in previous ye...
Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero at the NY Phil 8 Jun 2013 | 06:50 pm
I went to hear Il prigioniero with Gerald Finley and Patricia Racette as well as some Prokofiev with violinist Lisa Batiashvili at the New York Philharmonic and wrote about it for Bachtrack. Alan Gi....
Dallapiccola's Il prigioniero at the NY Phil 8 Jun 2013 | 06:50 pm
I went to hear Il prigioniero with Gerald Finley and Patricia Racette as well as some Prokofiev with violinist Lisa Batiashvili at the New York Philharmonic and wrote about it for Bachtrack. Alan Gil...
Don Carlo at the ROH 6 Jun 2013 | 12:04 am
While Friday night at the ROH had been dedicated to men in skirts on Saturday we switched to men in tights. I didn’t intend to see Nicholas Hytner’s somber period Don Carlo twice within only a few mon...
