New York Classical Review

Chelsea Chen brings lightness and charm to individual organ program

Chelsea Chen performed an organ recital Thursday night at Brick Presbyterian Church. The organ is such an imposing instrument ...
New York Classical Review

Young soprano sparks enjoyable ACO program

Epiphany is the season of the Morning Star, symbolizing hope, new beginnings, and the coming of light. Thomas Crawford, founder and artistic director of the American Classical Orchestra, is a church ...
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Perez blossoms in return of Met’s “Butterfly”

Conductor Marco Armiliato, who should perhaps be christened Signor Butterfly after leading countless performances of the ...
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Young artists give rare cycles fresh life with Brooklyn Art Song

The Brooklyn Art Song Society is the leading presenter of art song in New York City, and the reason is they have a great roster of artists and programs that coverage an enormous range of the music ...
New York Classical Review

Bellini’s music, fine cast carry the day over directorial excess in Met’s “Puritani”

Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee star in Bellini’s I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome ...
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Met’s “Kavalier & Clay” mixes stunning production with largely lightweight music

Andrzej Filończyk (left) and Myles Mykkanen in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera The best works of art, in any medium, ...
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Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite”

A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris experienced “the shock of the new” as never before, when the primitive rhythms and dissonances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...
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Oppens marks 80 years delightfully with friends and music

Ursula Oppens performed with Jerome Lowenthal Saturday afternoon at Merkin Hall in a concert marking her 80th birthday. Photo: June Feng Pianist Ursula Oppens has been one of the most important voices ...
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A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in belated Met premiere

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...
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“Andrea Chénier” makes an impassioned, riveting return to the Met

Piotr Beczała in the title role and Sonya Yoncheva as Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan ...
New York Classical Review

Cleveland Orchestra launches Carnegie’s Weimar Republic festival with vivid Bartók, pallid Mahler, Krenek

Franz Welser-Möst conducted the Cleveland Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. In music, the duchy (later city) of Weimar is remembered as home to Johann Sebastian Bach in the early 18 th ...