Tenor Pati makes an ardent Met debut in “Rigoletto”
Jan 7, 2025 · Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a fresh cast under the baton of Daniele Callegari.The performance featured the house debut of tenor Pene Pati as the Duke of Mantua. The role has been his calling card in opera houses worldwide, and it is easy to see why from this performance.
Edusei roams widely and brilliantly in Philharmonic debut
Jan 3, 2025 · The program of the New York Philharmonic’s concert Thursday night was largely about journeys, but it started with an arrival. In an impressive Philharmonic debut, the German conductor Kevin John Edusei presented a brilliant calling card in Samy Moussa’s Elysium, then took listeners on poetic and philosophical trips with music of Berlioz and Richard Strauss.
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Feb 3, 2025 · Carnegie Hall to celebrate America’s 250th and Arvo Pärt in 2025-26 season – Feb 12, 2025 “Anniversaries” is the word for Carnegie Hall’s 2025-26 season, announced Wednesday […]
Pianist Liu goes small and big in Russian works at Carnegie
Jan 25, 2025 · Pianist Bruce Liu performed Friday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Bartek Barczyk. Despite its cyclical title, Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons was not conceived as a piano cycle à la Kreisleriana or Pictures at an Exhibition, so there was no reason not to do what Bruce Liu did in his recital Friday night in Carnegie Hall, which was …
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Jan 1, 2025 · A romantic program finds its footing with Bell, Philharmonic – Jan 09, 2025. The New York Philharmonic continued its new year Wednesday night with […]
Kutasi’s Amneris provides the highlights in Met’s uneven ...
Jan 1, 2025 · As the fedora-hatted archaeologist was lowered into the Egyptian temple to begin the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Aida Tuesday night, he took a tumble while disengaging from his rope.. That was only the first misstep in a new production that already had the misfortune to follow a legend, and then came up with few reasons to do so.
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Dec 20, 2024 · 3. Stravinsky: The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Klaus Mäkelä/Orchestre de Paris.. On the brink of leaving one prominent post for two even more prestigious ones in Chicago and Amsterdam, the young Finnish maestro transported listeners to the Paris of 1910 and 1913, or at least to the sensation of hearing these now-classic works as shockingly new.
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Arvo Pärt will be celebrated across seven concerts during the season. October 23, the Estonian Festival Orchestra with conductor Paavo Järvi, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, directed by Tõnu Kaljuste, violinists Midori and Hans Christian Aavik, and pianist Nico Muhly play an all-Pärt concert, including Credo, Swansong, Cantus in memoriam …
Janowski makes a solid, belated Philharmonic debut
Jan 30, 2025 · One Response to “Janowski makes a solid, belated Philharmonic debut” Posted Feb 02, 2025 at 8:56 am by Elaine Silverberg. I must disagree with your assessment of the encore. In fact it surprisingly fit the piano concerto and her …
Dramatic moments yet Met’s “Trovatore”still a work in progress
Oct 30, 2024 · This current stretch of the Metropolitan Opera’s season is all meat and potatoes, dense with revivals of Puccini and Verdi—Rigoletto, Tosca, La Bohème—for the next month.And meat and potatoes are good, but a steady diet is going to require good seasoning and expert cooking to keep it interesting.