Articles by Hilary Stroh

Suzanne Farrell's revived premiere of Balanchine's Gounod Symphony is a triumph of form. 

NSO gives another convincing performance of Shakespeare inspired works. 

Shakespearean actors join the National Symphony Orchestra to open its season with first of two concerts celebrating the Bard.

With the many glories of the score and the easy butts of class and marital comedy, it is hard not to be pleased by a Figaro performance, although tonight’s did not sparkle as much as it might have. 

2016 Filene Young Artists give outstanding performance in Gassmann's Opera Seria.

Heated Passions abound in ABT's Romeo and Juliet. 

The NSO ends their season with a fullsome Bruckner's Fourth Symphony. 

Mat Eks kicks his dancers loose from the stable: a fresh take on Shakespeare's most celebrated romance. 

Tonight’s Götterdämmerung brought the cycle to a fitting – and wholly American – conclusion. 

Dazzling pop-ballet 'Bowie and Queen' marks Company Director's grand finale

Zambello's Ring for the WNO continues to engage and impress. 

Zambello's Die Walküre engages and excites in this promising Ring cycle. 

Das Rheingold stages flawed American Ambitions in the first Ring Cycle in Washington DC. 

Webre's ends his tenure at the Washingotn Ballet not with a whimper but a bang. 

Mahler 5 shows the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at its most expressive. 

Znaider's two-week residency at the NSO ends with an impressive Mahler 1. 

The Washington Ballet celebrates Shakespeare's anniversary with a performance of Stephen Mills' Hamlet. 

Znaider's dual role: this week, violinist, next week conductor at the  Kennedy Center. 

Osmo Vänskä returns to conduct the NSO for restrained Brahms and a very pleasing Beethoven. 

Picker's succesfully enigmatic premiere of his Opera without Words