Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; March 11, 2013—Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Otello on Michael Yeargan’s gigantic sets has returned
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y.; February 26, 2013—Benjamin Britten’s 1954 The Turn of the Screw is a masterpiece on
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; February 18, 2013—What is Wagner’s Parsifal about? Ritual? Prayer? Salvation/redemption? Nature depicting inner life?
Carnegie Hall, NY; February 14, 2013—Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam came to Carnegie Hall with a
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 29, 2013—Bartlett Sher’s 2011 production of Rossini’s last comic opera, Le Comte Ory,
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 14, 2013—The Met’s production of La Rondine, Puccini’s least successful mature opera, has
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 8, 2013—Donizetti’s 1834 opera Maria Stuarda, based on a play by Friedrich Schiller,
Church of St Mary the Virgin, 145 West 46th St, New York; January 2, 2012—Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is the composer
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; December 12, 2012—Sonja Frisell’s 1988 production of Verdi’s Aida with Gianni Quaranta’s gigantic sets
Carnegie Hall, NY; December 5, 2012—Rich in its melodic invention, lyricism, forward movement in finales, and demands on the star