"The rules are only good if they admit exceptions." – Hans Sachs, Die Meistersinger, Act III Over the course of the 6+ hours of Otto Schenk's monumental production of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger […]
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by Jim Rosenfield Photo credit: Tina Fineberg, The New York Times Carnegie Hall has been a hotbed of musical excitement over the past few weeks, first with David Lang's collected stories
MET Orchestra Meets Dvořák, Exquisitely Falls in Love Read Post »
by Michael Cirigliano II Over the past several years, it has become a complete game of chance as to whether James Levine, the beloved conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for
Levine Leads MET Orchestra in Harrowing All-Mahler Program Read Post »
