Stella di drammaticità: Joyce DiDonato

By Jacob Slattery, 21 March 2015

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 18 March 2015

Rossini, Aureliano in Palmira (Overture)

Carafa, Le nozze di Lammermoor ("L'amica ancor non torna...")

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore ("Prendi, per me sei libero")

Pacini, Stella di Napoli ("Ove t'aggiri, o barbaro")

Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montechi: O quante volte

Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and The Montagues) ("Ah! mia Giulietta")

Donizetti, La Favorite ("La maîtresse du roi... Ange si )

Rossini, Zelmira ("Reidi al soglio")

Maurizio Benini, Conductor

Laura Claycomb, Soprano

Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano

Lawrence Brownlee, Tenor

The Philadelphia Orchestra

A superb Salzburg sojourn: Philadelphia Orchestra plays Mozart

Cameron Kelsall, 11th April

Guest conductor Harry Bicket brings a sense of urgency to Mozart's Requiem and pulse-quickening energy to Symphony no. 40.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Amy Beach’s Gaelic returns to Philadelphia after 100-year absence

Cameron Kelsall, 12th March

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s latest concert also features Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto with Marc-André Hamelin.

****1

When we dead awaken: Mahler 2 returns to Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 8th March

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra deliver a supreme meditation on the power of music and faith.

*****

Hilary Hahn returns to the stage with the Philadelphia Orchestra

Cameron Kelsall, 13th February

After a six-month break to address persistent injuries, the bravura violinist appears in one of her signature pieces: Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no. 1.

***11

Rarities surround Tchaikovsky favorite at the Philadelphia Orchestra

Cameron Kelsall, 6th February

Concertmaster David Kim performs Tchaikovsky's ever-popular Violin Concerto, and conductor Rafael Payare revisits Falla's El amor brujo.

***11

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Jacob Slattery

Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.

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