James Levine
Wilson’s Stylized Lohengrin Finds Some New Admirers
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Karita Mattila and Ben Heppner in Robert Wilson
Wagner conceived Lohengrin in a bath—while he was taking the waters at Marienbad in 1845. read more »
Mahler's Massive Get-Together, Loudly Downsized by Levine
The origins of "event culture" may reside not in the grandiose scheming of some Hollywood pitchman, read more »
An Immense Epic of Turbulence, The Ring Works Its Magic Again
The other day, when I asked a young friend of mine if he was interested in joining me for a Saturday read more »
Not Quite a Sing-Along: Schubert Songs at Carnegie Hall
In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular event he'd jus read more »
Welcome Musical Distractions: Piano, Then Parsifal and Handel
On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on read more »
Welcome Musical Distractions: Piano, Then Parsifal and Handel
On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on read more »
Ego Clashes, Diva Flare-Ups-Business as Usual at the Met
Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera , by Johanna Fiedler. Nan A. read more »
James Levine: A Maestro At the Top of His Game
Classical music lovers do not, as a rule, follow their favorite performers with the obsessive attent read more »
Having Retired the Great Masur, Philharmonic Can't Find Maestro
When the New York Philharmonic decided in early 1998 that it would not renew musical director Kurt M read more »
