And in fact, Smetana’s piece, with its two movements in moderate tempos, made an agreeably unshowy opener for Sunday’s ...
In the first movement, the soloist and two orchestral oboes began by blending their tones in chains of ear-buzzing seconds, ...
La Bohème is back at the Metropolitan Opera for its third of four installments this season. For performances this month, Mimi ...
Lise Davidsen as Leonore confronts the villainous Pizzaro (Tomasz Konieczny) in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera ...
Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...
The Boulez and Ravel showed Aimard can produce substantial volume, but for him it’s not simple muscularity. There was a ...
Greatness can be a burden, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, nicknamed the “Great,” seemed to labor under the weight of its ...