Northern lights
SoCal goes Scandi in two recent concerts, with one featuring an appearance by Lise Davidsen.
5 pieces since 2010.
SoCal goes Scandi in two recent concerts, with one featuring an appearance by Lise Davidsen.
A grand concert from Angel Blue has Patrick Mack wondering, “where’s her crossover album?”
The great archetypal image of an opera singer is a towering Wagnerian soprano who shatters entire panes of glass the moment she opens her mouth.
Lise Davidsen turned in a fine performance Saturday, cementing her up-and-coming star status in an eclectic program given from the Oscarshall Palace in Oslo.
The annual Richard Tucker gala came and went at Avery Fisher Hall with the usual quota of gaffes, wardrobe malfunctions, no-shows, too-much-shows, substitutions and surprise guests (well, guest). And sandwiched between the routine, the egocentric and the just plain dull were moments of true dementia, the moments that we melomanes live and die for. Most […]
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