Jan 1, 2025 · In another Met role debut, Piotr Beczała cut a dashing figure but was a less than vocally luminous Radamès. Recovering from a bad cold, he offered some elegant phrasing in …

Nov 17, 2024 · The Metropolitan Opera is presenting 13 performances of Puccini's Tosca this season, broken into chunks of five, four and four, with breaks in between and each with a …

Dec 12, 2024 · Cecil Sharp, who died 100 years ago this year, was equally active, sometimes finding alternative tunes to similar text. He found another melody for The Truth Sent from …

Dec 13, 2024 · Swan Lake was the basis of a sea-change in the status of Bourne’s company.Since its inception it has been seen all over the world, garnering rave reviews and …

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Sep 11, 2023 · Unsurprisingly, Central European orchestras fared strongly: the Berlin Philharmonic was one of three German orchestras in our top ten, joined by the Bavarian Radio …

Nov 7, 2024 · Picking up where the first series left off, The Mirror and the Light opens in the aftermath of Anne Boleyn’s execution, with the cunning Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell …

Jan 1, 2025 · The enduring delights of Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker, first aired in 1990 with Birmingham Royal Ballet, look set to carry on drawing in audiences for another few decades.It …

Apr 5, 2023 · It’s been a busy two years since our 2021 article about classical music streaming. One of the two dedicated classical music platforms, Primephonic, has been acquired by …

Dec 15, 2024 · Like many, I was growing tired of the version that had been presented since 2010 and particularly its unseasonably spartan second act set and have looked forward to the …