John Nelson conducts Michael Spyres and Joyce DiDonato in a live broadcast from Strasbourg
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I can’t say it’s precisely my idea of Handel, but I’ve watched this clip at least a half dozen times!
This review attempts to capture my ecstatic reactions to Contra-Tenor, one of the greatest recordings I’ve ever heard.
On the train ride home I was thinking that I don’t want to see or hear Norma ever again.
Michael Spyres’s nobly moving Idomeneo wasn’t just a bravura triumph: singing strongly throughout, he brought more colors to his portrayal of the tortured king than I had experienced from others in the Ponnelle production.
This tenor must be the finest classical singer in the world today.
A concert performance featuring Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres, with Il Pomo d’Oro Choir and Orchestra conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.
By La Cieca
Last Wednesday the 92nd Street Y presented the friendliest-ever episode of American Gladiators when Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres continued their bel canto bromance with a delirious (almost) all-Rossini recital accompanied by Myra Huang.
Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres are two singers at the top of their game, as this concert showed, virtually peerless in music as punishing as it is pretty.
Erato’s irresistible Rossini collection Amici e Rivali is hands down my favorite vocal CD of 2020, featuring the inspired bravura sparrings of Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres.
Michael Spyres as Faust, despite a few flickers of indisposition, was nearly ideal.
Everyone who revives Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda, as the Collegiate Chorale did at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night, calls the piece an “overlooked masterpiece.”
By John Yohalem
Beatrice di Tenda was a problem child, Vincenzo Bellini an alternately protective and disparaging parent.
By John Yohalem
