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In this world-premiere work, which opens Opera Philadelphia's Festival O23, composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch dramatize and deconstruct the true story of Nellie Bly's commitment to a mental asylum.

Harry Bicket’s Mozart program traversed a sampling of the composer’s works in various forms, including the Prague Symphony and Exsultate, jubilate with Kiera Duffy.

Salonen's tribute to Gehry, Yasuhisa Toyota and Deborah Borda seems to come more from his brilliant visual palette than his emotional heart. 

Beethoven’s call to joy and brotherhood left much to be desired if not for a fantastic chorus in the final movement. 

The world première of Breaking the Waves was a qualified success, with a powerful drama performed with commitment by strong cast and musicians.

Beyond what size does a chamber orchestra just become an orchestra? With 60 musicians involved in their Mahler 4 and Sibelius 6 program, the ACO was certainly stretching anyone’s definition of ‘chamber’.

Seeing a classical concert at the Hollywood Bowl is always an event. While (to put it kindly) it is not the ideal acoustic for classical music, the iconic venue is surrounded by glowing hills and always seems to have perfect weather.

First published in 1759, Voltaire’s Candide was re-imagined for the concert stage by Leonard Bernstein in 1956. An operetta whose aim was to mock the belief that everything—literally, everything—is for the best, Candide was an ideal medium through which to critique the excesses of McCarthyism and the complacency of the Eisenhower administration in 1950’s US politics.