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Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Joan Mitchell painting looms at the top of the grand staircase at the Anderson Collection, Stanford University’s modern art museum here. It’s a sweaty, emotive work, bright colors moodily smeared across a huge canvas.
'This Is Who We've Been Waiting For': A Diva on the Precipice
LONDON — Julia Bullock had a cold.
Marcello Giordani, Tenor Who 'Sang Like a God,' Dies at 56
Marcello Giordani, a heartfelt, stalwart and, at his best, inspired tenor who was a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera and other major houses around the world, died Saturday at his home in Augusta, Sicily. He was 56.
A Festival Brings the Musical World Back to School
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Review: Netrebko and Kaufmann Is as Good as Opera Gets
(Critic’s Pick)Review: A Surprise Tenor Jolts the Met Opera's 'Samson'
(Critic’s Pick)After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera's Grand, Gaudy 'Aida'
(Critic's Notebook)Can a Star Conductor Finally Make It Work in America?
Thirty years ago, conductor Simon Rattle received a letter. It was from a teacher at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England, telling Rattle about an extraordinarily talented teenage maestro there named Daniel Harding.
An American Gothic Opera Speaks Softly and Hypnotically
NEW YORK — Robert Ashley’s “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” isn’t the first opera to have its heroine pathetically forsaken in an American desert. Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” starts its final act in one, with the title character “alone, lost, abandoned,” as she cries in a majestic outpouring of an aria.Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback?
NEW YORK — “It’s so perfect, it makes you want to cry,” soprano Aprile Millo said, her eyes getting moist just thinking about it.
Review: A Double Bill at the Met Opera, Bleakly Gray as Winter
NEW YORK — In the gray depths of a New York winter, it was an aptly gray couple of days at the Metropolitan Opera.Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival
(Critic’s Notebook)A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm
NEW YORK — Late in the third act of “Adriana Lecouvreur,” Francesco Cilea’s irresistible potboiler of an opera, vicious Princess de Bouillon and Adriana, an actress, square off at a party, rivals for the love of dashing Maurizio.
Details matter in Riccardo Muti's precise 'Aida'
The moment took on new mystery and wonder, and the import of the opera’s conclusion — a timeless religious sphere quietly swallows up the transient concerns of governments and romances — was suddenly fresh.
America's most astonishing choir hates sounding pretty
It was funny to hear this coming from Donald Nally, the conductor of the Crossing, a choir devoted to new music that makes some of the prettiest sounds you’ll ever hear.
Review: 'The Central Park Five' turns injustice into opera
Well, no one could say that the quintet of protagonists of “The Central Park Five,” a jazz-infused new opera by Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley that was premiered on Saturday at the Warner Grand Theater here by Long Beach Opera, don’t deserve it.
Review: After 27 years, Meredith Monk's 'Atlas' returns to earth
What it doesn’t have is words.
4 musicians chart 100 years in the life of a runaway slave
NEW YORK — Esteban Montejo was over 100 before the world knew his story.
The story behind a slave's tale told with music
NEW YORK — Esteban Montejo was over 100 before the world knew his story.
How the Shed can live up to its hype: Focus on the artists
NEW YORK — A city’s culture is an ecosystem. Something gets added, something gets taken away, and there’s a change in climate that affects everyone.
