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Carnegie Hosts a Duel; Cleveland Honors Bruckner
Question: What does cutting-edge classical music have in common with cancer drugs? read more »
Butterfly, Barber, and The Cave; Plus, Here’s the Messiah to Beat!
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Pianist Ivo Pogorelich, who may or may not appear at the Metropolitan Museum on Oct. 26.
Strictly speaking, the classical-music season began Sept. read more »
Butterfly, Barber, and The Cave; Plus, Here's the Messiah to Beat!
Strictly speaking, the classical-music season began Sept. read more »
Mark Morris Does Mozart: A Dose of Sheer Pleasure
Stephanie Berger
Mark Morris
Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through read more »
Mark Morris Does Mozart: A Dose of Sheer Pleasure
Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through a bad p read more »
Schumann's Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of We read more »
Schumann’s Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
Cory Weaaver
Schumann
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of We read more »
A Pair of Formidable Pianists Scale Back for Mozart, Chopin
Mikhail Pletnev (above) masters Mozart; Maurizio Pollini has the chops for Chopin.
“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. read more »
A Pair of Formidable Pianists Scale Back for Mozart, Chopin
“Round fingers for Mozart, flat fingers for Chopin,” my piano teacher used to say. read more »
Mozart is 250, Shostakovich 100— And Joe Volpe Says Goodbye
Peter Riguad
Soprano Anna Netrebko.
The classical-music world loves nothing more than a great composer’s anniversary. read more »
Mozart is 250, Shostakovich 100- And Joe Volpe Says Goodbye
The classical-music world loves nothing more than a great composer’s anniversary. read more »
Pianists Abroad and at Home, Alone with the Black Beast
Courtesy of Michael Rolland Davis
A 90-year-old prodigy: Earl Wild.
The art of the concert pianist is different from that of other classical soloists. read more »
Plays Well With Others: Mozart Makes New Friends
Richard Termine
Lithe and energetic on the podium: Louis Langr
For years, the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center seemed an idea whose time had gone. read more »
Bullish on Baroque Opera: A Maestro and His Acolytes
"Handel is closer to us than many composers who came along years later," William Christie said as we read more »
Don Carlo, Domingo at the Met; André, Anne-Sophie at Carnegie
Like a bad nor'easter, the city's spring music offerings arrive with a roar. read more »
Deeper, Riskier Magic Flute A Triumph of Sinister Thrills
Julie Taymor’s staging of The Magic Flute is the Metropolitan Opera’s finest theatrical achievem read more »
Chilly Salzburg, Warm Lucerne-A Changing Festival Climate
Oral sex on television is apparently no problem in Austria-at least if the sex is accompanied by the read more »
Three Switched-On Pianists Offer High-Voltage Recitals
Alfred Brendel once likened ideal communication between a concert performer and his listeners to an read more »
Two Baddies Take the Stage: It's Scoundrel Time Again
The most startling thing about Saddam Hussein, when he was finally routed out of his rathole, was th read more »
Ranks of Dazzling Boys Prop Up A.B.T.'s Fall Season
This fall, A.B.T. read more »
The Midas Watch
Mozart and the Beasts: Bargemusic Floats Me History Happens, Brahms Sustains; Now Let Me Rant About read more »
Glimmerglass Opera Produces Triumph of Inspired Whimsy
In the wonderful guidebook A Night at the Opera– which appropriately borrows the title of the grea read more »
Twyla Tharp Back Yet Again With New Company, New Home
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? read more »
God Stars in Obscene Life of Child-Genius and Triumphs
The most welcome 20th-anniversary production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus on Broadway belatedly told m read more »
Who's Killing Manhattan Eye and Ear?
For more than a century, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital has been providing New Yorkers w read more »
Old Stars Bore at Lincoln Center; New Stars Shine at Glimmerglass
Like the weather, the operas at the proliferating summer festivals hereabouts have ranged from the t read more »
The Puzzling Mr. Brendel Battles Chaos at Carnegie Hall
Ever since Mozart, one of classical music's most persistent myths has been that of the child prodigy read more »
Serb Vulgarians: Compare, Equate and Rage Again
Our diplomats can't say it. Our politicians feel embarrassed saying it. read more »
Seeking Enlightenment at the Mostly Mozart Festival
The omniscient, all-controlling father figure-or, his professional namesake, the maestro-has played read more »
