“I can assure you that this production will be unlike anything anyone has seen at the Met or anywhere.” – Met Opera General Director Peter Gelb, via the NY Times […]
Preview: Tristan und Isolde Opens Tonight at the Metropolitan Opera Read Post »
“Conducting has become the profession of a traveling salesman… A conductor has to stay put to educate an orchestra.” – William Steinberg (1899-1978) former music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony
What Price Glory? A Word on Music Directors Read Post »
Great music exists all over this country: from the northern plains, to southern California, and everywhere in between. Cross a couple of rivers west from New York and you’ll reach
“It is hard to imagine a more risk-prone art form than opera.” – John Adams Of all of New York's musical treasures, none shines brighter than the Metropolitan Opera. This
“Antony and Cleopatra” and “Salome” at the Met Read Post »
by Pete Matthews (All photos by Pete Matthews) Life has never been easy being a member of the MET Orchestra, the concert stage orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera. For 33
The MET Orchestra Returns to Carnegie Hall Read Post »
It's been three years since the vaunted Vienna Philharmonic has been to NYC – in pre-COVID times, they came here each year – but they'll be back this weekend with
Weekend Preview: Vienna Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall Read Post »
by James Rosenfield Photo credit: Ruby Washington, The New York Times Friday night at Carnegie Hall saw the brilliant young conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin lead the Philadelphia Orchestra in an unusual combination of
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphians Tackle Barber, Bartók, and Bruckner Read Post »
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin are making one of their (thankfully) regular trips to Carnegie Hall tonight, bringing an emotionally wrought program that includes Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and Richard
Preview: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Read Post »
It's somewhat unfair that the Philadelphia Orchestra—by any measure one of the country's great ensembles—is situated as close as it is to New York. On the one hand, it makes
Philadelphia Orchestra with Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall Read Post »
