New York Classical Review

Met wraps the season successfully with Frank’s impassioned “Frida y Diego”

The opera is Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego. With a libretto by Nilo Cruz, the work had its world premiere at the San Diego Opera in 2022—later moving to San Francisco and ...
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Botstein guides The Orchestra Now on scenic trek through Strauss’s peaks and valleys

Leon Botstein, the college president who conducts orchestras, will soon be shedding one of those roles, but he did a ...
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Some missteps apart, Decoda brings vigorous advocacy to American program

Charles Ives had some rough things to say about what he called the “Rollos” of the world. He used that name as a stand-in for ...
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Stars come out for a musico-historic bash at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall presents Rhiannon Giddens and assisting artists in “The Hidden Soundtrack of America,” a program of music from Africa and North America and from the 1700s to the era of minstrelsy and ...
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A luminous Feola triumphs in Met’s “Traviata”

If you are a La Traviata aficionado or someone new to opera, don’t let this cast slip through your fingers. La Traviata runs ...
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An intimate reprise of two celebrated creator works with Ursula Oppens

Oppens was one of four pianists—the others were Paul Jacobs, Gilbert Kalish, and Charles Rosen—who commissioned Night ...
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Long Play festival’s minimalism evolves into maximal impact

The highlights of this year’s festival—held, as always, the first weekend in May—confirmed this, with concerts that not only ...
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A master of tone, Han Kim rocks the clarinet standards at Zankel

Musicians from Asia have excelled in Western classical music for so long now that it comes as a surprise when one of them makes news by doing so. That’s what happened when the then 27-year-old Han Kim ...