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Miami BeachStrange Magic: Ravel + Stravinsky
Stravinsky, Ravel
New World Symphony; Stéphane Denève; Isabel Leonard
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Giacomo Sagripanti; Damiano Michieletto; Teatro Real; Paolo Fantin; Silvia Aymonino; Fabio Barettin; Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
New York CityDiamond Jubilee: 60 Years at Lincoln Center
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; Aigul Akhmetshina; Roberto Alagna; Xabier Anduaga
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The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling
Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank.
Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life
William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, overlooked for decades, heads an all-American program of 20th-century works in New York.
Energetic cast brightens up the Met’s tired-looking Barbiere
Bartlett Sher’s 2006 production of Rossini’s tuneful masterpiece is showing its age, but a superb cast and conductor keep the comedy moving.
A French feast for the ears from Denève and the New World Symphony
In Miami, Isabel Leonard bewitches in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, while Stéphane Denève and the New World Symphony conjure up atmospherics galore in Roussel and Schmitt ballet scores.
Kasper Holten’s powerful, hi-tech Don Giovanni arrives at LA Opera
Lucas Meachem’s portrayal suggests a paraphrase of what another Hollywood Don Juan, Errol Flynn in 1949, said to his Leporello in excusing his escapades. “My dear friend, there’s a little bit of Don Giovanni in every man, and since I am Don Giovanni, there must be more of it in me!”
The NY Phil pays tribute to Sondheim at Bravo! Vail
The New York Phil concluded its six-concert residency at this summer’s Bravo! Vail Festival with a survey of Stephen Sondheim’s legacy stylishly led by Leonard Slatkin.