Rose to the occasion
The embattled Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring Adams and Dvorák to Carnegie Hall.
Alice Goodman
7 pieces since 2014.
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pieces
13
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Sexual orientalization
An impressive cast blurs binaries as John Adams‘s ambitious Antony and Cleopatra arrives at the Met
Nixon in Jersey: The Renixoning
The singers and the orchestra carry the show, but where do they carry it?
A little ‘Nixon’ goes a long way
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.
Word problem
I’ve been picking away yet again at the mysterious symbiosis between an opera’s words and its music.
Manhattan melodrama
Curtis Opera Theater mounted a musically remarkable account of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic on March 2.
Anger’s aweigh
It was a night a-tingle with excitement at the Metropolitan Opera House.
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I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
