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Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla: A charming yet forceful first appearance on the Carnegie Hall rostrum

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 18 May 2018
Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Mussorgsky, Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Shostakovich)
Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op.36
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor
Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-soprano
Asmik Grigorian strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin
****1
Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere
*****
Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music
***11
Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life
****1
Ailyn Pérez is the perfect Butterfly in the Met’s revival
*****
Vocal thrills in Met’s traditional staging of Bellini’s I puritani
*****
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