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In his inaugural season as music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky and ...
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AMOC brings blast of silence to music of Sciarrino, Hersch at TIME:SPANS

Aside from those rare outbursts, flutist Emi Ferguson supported the singer with soft colorations to match his voice, from liquid to hazy, from buzzing to breathy. At one point she detached the head ...
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“Fedora” returns to Met after 25 years in a sumptuous, richly sung production

Sonya Yoncheva and Piotr Beczała star in Giordano’s Fedora, which opened at the Metropolitan Opera Saturday night. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Fedora returned to the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s ...
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Nézet-Séguin, Met Orchestra still finding their way with Mahler

Joyce DiDonato was the soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, performed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor Everything is a work in ...
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A trio of worthy debuts boosts Met’s “Onegin” revival

Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returned to the ...
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European Youth Orchestra rises to the Mahler challenge at Carnegie

Isata Kanneh-Mason performed Ernst von Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune with Iván Fischer and the European Union Youth Orchestra Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Stephanie Berger Carnegie ...
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Pianist Mamora displays his strength, story-telling gifts in Carnegie recital

Pianist Jonathan Mamora performed a recital at Weill Recital Hall Saturday night. The third time was the charm for pianist Jonathan Mamora with the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. In 2011 ...
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Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite”

A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris experienced “the shock of the new” as never before, when the primitive rhythms and dissonances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...
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Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...
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Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program

Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder was given its world premiere by Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic this week. Photo: Jay Blakesberg For some concertgoers, there was a hint of nostalgia in the ...
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MasterVoices’ superb cast provides fine advocacy for Gordon’s “Grapes of Wrath”

Ricky Ian Gordon’s opera The Grapes of Wrath was presented by MasterVoices Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. (From l to r: Jan Constantine, Margaret Lattimore, John Brancy, Kyle Oliver, Christian ...
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In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class

Eric Owens and Ryan Speedo Green in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera The production had a lot going for it: the good will (and expanded audience ...