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Variations of Levine: From Mozart to Carter via Verdi with the MET Orchestra

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 13 October 2013
Verdi, Les Vêpres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani): Overture
Carter, Variations for Orchestra
Rossini, Giovanna D'Arco (orch. Salvatore Sciarrino)
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Deh per questo istante solo
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, K621: Non più di fiori
Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine, Conductor
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano
Innocence: Saariaho's final opera receives New York premiere
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Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music
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Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life
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Ailyn Pérez is the perfect Butterfly in the Met’s revival
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Vocal thrills in Met’s traditional staging of Bellini’s I puritani
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Porgy and Bess returns stronger than ever at the Met
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