In the New York Philharmonic’s 2025-26 season, Frederic Rzewski’s piano work The People United Will Never Be Defeated! will be presented in a newly commissioned orchestration of teh variations by 14 ...
And in fact, Smetana’s piece, with its two movements in moderate tempos, made an agreeably unshowy opener for Sunday’s ...
La Bohème is back at the Metropolitan Opera for its third of four installments this season. For performances this month, Mimi ...
Green and Costello were in full voice, the orchestra had a new level of energy. The climax was like the slow eruption of a ...
Lise Davidsen as Leonore confronts the villainous Pizzaro (Tomasz Konieczny) in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera ...
That’s the background to this week’s New York Philharmonic program. The addition is not just to the orchestra but to the ...
The Boulez and Ravel showed Aimard can produce substantial volume, but for him it’s not simple muscularity. There was a ...
Greatness can be a burden, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, nicknamed the “Great,” seemed to labor under the weight of its ...
Three stagefuls of musicians from that city occupied Carnegie Hall Wednesday night, in what was billed as “A Celebration of ...