Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...

Aleksandra Kurzak and SeokJong Baek star in Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera David McVicar’s 2017 staging is traditional to a tee, except for the odd angle on ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...

Soprano Lisette Oropesa performed Mozart arias with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Yannick Nézet ...

Yuja Wang performed music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Kapustin in April at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Scriabin, Albéniz and Kapustin. Yuja Wang ...

The main attraction at New York Philharmonic concerts in David Geffen Hall this week is newness. It comes in two parts; a world premiere composition and the Philharmonic debut of a world-class soloist ...

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...