As a hero going to conquest As a hero going to conquest

A joint Beethoven–Adams program conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk suggests a way forward for the embattled Boston Symphony Orchestra.

By May 06, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Hello to Berlin Hello to Berlin

Montagu James reviews the US tour of the Kirill Petrenko-led Berlin Philharmonic

By November 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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<em>Macabre</em> fascination <em>Macabre</em> fascination

Can György Ligeti‘s only opera be understood as the composer’s own grappling with trauma, death, and memory of a past life?

By August 08, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Color me impressed Color me impressed

Bay Area audiences starved for vocal fare during its opera’s winter/spring hiatus recently experienced two exceptional concerts with distinguished singing at the Davies Symphony Hall.

By March 12, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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No saints in two acts No saints in two acts

The cast of Wiener Staatsoper’s first-ever performance of Lulu in 1968 reads like a Who’s Who of then-contemporary Austro-German opera: the 28-year-old Anja Silja, Martha Mödl, Waldemar Kmentt, Hans Hotter, Hilde Konetzni, Manfred Jungwirth, Heinz Zednik, and Karl Böhm presiding over a production by Otto Schenk. 

By June 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM
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