The Music Stops
"How do you keep the music playing?How do you make it last?How do you keep the song from fadingToo fast?" […]
Opera
“The Love Suicides at Sonezaki” at the White Light Festival
by Steven Pisano (© Hiroshi Sugimoto/Courtesy of Odawara Art Foundation) 2019 marks the 10th anniversary season of Lincoln Center's White
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“The Love for Three Oranges” at Opera Philadelphia
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) Opera Philadelphia's recent production of Sergei Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges"
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A Quick Visit to The Ring at The Met
After Tuesday's NY Phil concert with Semyon Bychkov leading the U.S. Premiere of Thomas Larcher's colorful, surprisingly tonal Symphony No.
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Janacek’s “Diary of One Who Disappeared” at BAM
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) is perhaps best known in this
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American Symphony Orchestra Performs Bohuslav Martinu’s Opera “Julietta” at Carnegie Hall
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) The conductor Leon Botstein has led the American Symphony Orchestra for more
Les Arts Florissants, “Rameau, Maître à Danser,” at BAM
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano) William Christie founded Les Arts Florissants in 1979 as a way to
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Robert Ashley’s “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)” at The Kitchen
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The composer Robert Ashley's opera Improvement (Don Leaves Linda) is an interesting
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“Greek” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
by Steven Pisano (All photos by Steven Pisano.) The composer Mark-Anthony Turnage made his mark in London almost 20 years
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