Cameron Kelsall
The New York Philharmonic podium has been occupied the past two weeks by Finnish conductors once thought to be top contenders for the ensemble’s music directorship.
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Maximalism was on the menu last weekend at the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.
Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann made her New York recital debut at Weill Hall on May 8.
Matthew Polenzani returned triumphantly to his comfort zone in a Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital on April 2.
La forza del destino concluded its run at the Metropolitan Opera with a significant cast change.
The tragic speaker of Schubert’s Winterreise makes his fateful journey but once, yet some singers cannot help trodding the path again and again.
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From a musical perspective, the evening came together admirably. As a work of theater, though, it was as stale as last week’s takeout.
It seemed like such a great idea on paper.
Boston Symphony Orchestra recently confirmed an infinitely renewable contract upon Andris Nelsons, its music director since 2014. To understand why, one needed little more evidence than the outfit’s recent visit to Carnegie Hall.
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When the New York Philharmonic announced Gustavo Dudamel as its next music director earlier this year, speculation arose immediately as to who would take his place out West when he leaves the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2026.
In Handel’s Rodelinda, a usurped monarch, believed dead, returns to avenge his deposition and reclaim the woman he loves.
Renée Fleming arrived at Carnegie Hall on May 31 with something to prove.
This Holländer offers neither a clear narrative vision for the work nor a sense of turbocharged drama; it simply sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.
Here’s an update for those keeping up with the Lohengrin casting sweepstakes at the Met.
The sharp and glitzy national tour production of Six doesn’t suffer from a sense of staleness due to familiarity.
Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron showed herself unafraid to move the expectations of classical music forward, linguistically, thematically, and culturally.
The Vienna Philharmonic brought along no star soloist for their three-night residency at Carnegie Hall this past weekend. Their programs didn’t include any commissions or flashy new works. The repertoire choices hewed closely to the core Austro-German corpus for which they are justly famous, including multiple works they had given in their world premieres.
Cotton, a world-premiere song cycle commissioned by Philadelphia’s Lyric Fest, takes its audience on a journey through Black American history that extends from the Deep South to the contemporary urban landscape.
A main theme in Becky Nurse of Salem is how history is distorted by those who get to tell it.
Perhaps the quirkiest of Mahler’s nine symphonies, the Fourth fits nicely with Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s somewhat idiosyncratic style.
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