The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.
An impressive cast blurs binaries as John Adams‘s ambitious Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met
The singers and the orchestra carry the show, but where do they carry it?
The Princeton Festival has long been a “Little Engine that Could,” but the current operatic offering, John Adams’ Nixon in China, is a good deal more than that.
I’ve been picking away yet again at the mysterious symbiosis between an opera’s words and its music.
Curtis Opera Theater mounted a musically remarkable account of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic on March 2.
It was a night a-tingle with excitement at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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