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Asmik Grigorian’s Raw Passion Eclipsed Piotr Beczała’s Quiet Thunder at Carnegie Hall

It was a good week for fans of Russian song.

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Gabrielle Ferrari

The Experience of Living with Michael J. Schumacher’s ‘Living Room Pieces’

It’s easy, in an art gallery, to cede the context of sounds to an artist; in your home, personal association is inevitable because the context is...

11.12.2024 1

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Celebrating Czech Music at Carnegie Hall With Dvořák’s Piano Concerto and Janáček’s ‘Glagolitic Mass’

It’s been over a decade since Leoš Janáček’s mass last appeared at Carnegie Hall.

10.12.2024 9

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’ at the Met Is Full of Beauty and Surprises

Die Frau ohne Schatten begins after happily-ever-after and ends as another ever-after begins—essentially, it’s an opera about the beginning of a...

03.12.2024 7

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Gabrielle Ferrari

True Events Become History and History Becomes Art in the Met’s ‘Ainadamar’

Deborah Colker’s production has a deft and beautiful visual poetry, pouring moving bodies and striking vignettes into the spaces around the...

22.10.2024 5

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘The Listeners’ Offers a Chilling Take On Disillusionment and American Despair

Even when you know where this story is going, the opera drags you into its undertow.

09.10.2024 8

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Indra’s Net’ Fills New York’s Park Avenue Armory With Sound and Beauty

The drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory can feel gloomy and imposing but in Indra’s Net, the latest full-length work from Meredith Monk, that...

07.10.2024 5

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Gabrielle Ferrari

‘Silent Light’ at National Sawdust Captures the Sounds (and the Scents) of Everyday Life

Listen to the chirps of cicadas long enough, and you might begin to impose your own music onto theirs, infusing it with the mysterious rhythm of the...

01.10.2024 4

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Despite Tropes, the Met’s ‘Grounded’ Is a Solid Outing

A decade after it was commissioned, composer Janine Tesori's story of surveillance, guilt and motherhood has finally landed.

26.09.2024 6

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Opera Underground: Caroline Shaw’s ‘Partita for 8 Voices’ and Gelsey Bell’s ‘morning//mourning’ at Green-Wood Cemetery

Under the direction of founder Andrew Ousley, Death of Classical has enjoyed a fruitful partnership with the Green-Wood Cemetery, presenting...

17.09.2024 6

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Anthony Roth Costanzo Is and Isn’t ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

Much of this production feels like an inside joke, one perhaps aimed at singers and opera superfans.

06.09.2024 2

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Gabrielle Ferrari

This Utterly Refreshing ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ Is Both Mythic and Modern

‘Well, wasn’t that just delightful?’ is seldom the response to the typically tragic tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. It’s a sad song usually, but...

20.05.2024 10

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Explicitly Feminist and Vibrantly Colorful, the Met’s ‘El Niño’ Shines in More Ways Than One

John Adams’ other operas are about history, twentieth-century history to be more exact, and the men at the center of explosive, polarizing events:...

29.04.2024 30

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Heartbeat Opera’s ‘The Extinctionist’ Offers Commentary With Little Complexity

Heartbeat Opera, known for their innovative and often provocative restagings of opera classics, celebrated their company’s tenth season with their...

08.04.2024 20

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Gabrielle Ferrari

Angel Blue and Speranza Scappucci Elevate the Met’s Somewhat Dated ‘La Rondine’

Puccini started La Rondine the year before the First World War broke out. By the time he finished in 1916, Italy had not only entered the war but...

29.03.2024 8

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Gabrielle Ferrari

While Serious in Subject, the Oratorio ‘Emigré’ Is Pure Schlock

It feels like a Disney version of history, trafficking entirely in musical, poetic and dramatic clichés. 

05.03.2024 4

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Gabrielle Ferrari

As In Years Past, New York’s Prototype Festival Delivers Operatic Evolution

The late James Jorden, Observer’s opera critic from 2014 through 2021, once wrote: “Season after season, PROTOTYPE introduces to New York pieces...

20.01.2024 8

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Gabrielle Ferrari

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