Sunday, January 30, 2011

Northernness: Karita Mattila and the NYPhil with Beethoven, Sibelius, and Nielsen

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Karita Mattila with Sibelius art songs and a Beethoven concert aria, plus Ludwig's Eighth and a twentieth-century Scandinavian symphony ...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Spring in Winter: Haydn and Stravinsky (and a bit of Brahms) with the Budapest Festival Orchestra

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An orchestra musician is an artist, not an employee, and artists must be given the chance to take initiatives and to be creative. Only an or...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

O Schönheit: Mozart and Mahler with the Met Orchestra

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In contrast with my usual last-minute habits, I bought a ticket for this afternoon's concert over a month in advance, eager to have a ch...
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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Interval Adventures: I Go To Opera Boot Camp

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Ominous but helpfully labeled stairway. After a week of exhausting academic productivity, I decided to take a break today by going to a l...
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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Plácido Domingo: ad multos annos

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I suspect that Plácido Domingo himself is one of very few people in the world who can keep track of his prodigious and prodigiously varied a...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sta in voi salvarlo

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Monday night was my third experience of Tosca in Luc Bondy's much-discussed production.  It still strikes me as far from coherent, but ...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

O rabbia! esser buffone!

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Unofficial Verdi month is in full swing now: on Saturday night I headed to the Met for another round of Rigoletto .  The Otto Schenk product...
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