Dark Tchaikovsky opera a success
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In opera, singing well is the best revenge. Neil Shicoff, savaged by the local media this summer for his bid to become director of the Vienna State Opera, celebrated a triumph Sunday on the stage of the same establishment. And no wonder. While there may be doubt about his managerial abilities, he is among the world's top tenors on a good night Â and this was one of them.
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Russia's Tchaikovsky Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra and well-known Russian soloists performed in the Netherlands to an audience that included the Dutch royals.
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Opera is revolutionary. It thrills the elite and masses alike, bops to Indian drums and grooves to glass-shattering Wagnerian arias in a mosh pit filled with British rockers.
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Natalie Dessay thrived under pressure, singing the touchstone title role of Donizettiâs âLucia di Lammermoorâ in a new production to open the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Monday night.
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Kristjan Jarviâs ensemble supported and furthered the eveningâs explorations of world music with a robust and often free-blowing sound.
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The Metropolitan Opera is getting back into the DVD business.
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Carnegie Hall opened its season on Wednesday with a splendid all-Richard Strauss concert that included the soprano RenÃ©e Fleming and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years the Metropolitan Opera presented Verdiâs breakthrough early masterpiece in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production.
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They switched operas to suit the tenor Â not that anyone would complain about Bizet's "Carmen" Â and the Argentine singer didn't disappoint.
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The New York Youth Symphony gave an exciting account of ProkofievÂs bustling and powerful Symphony No. 5 on Sunday afternoon at Carnegie Hall.
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When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagnerâs âRing des Nibelungenâ over nine days.
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The Chicago Sinfonietta performs a new work without the old warning.
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The company has given Puccini's "La Rondine" a boost of confidence with an appealing production, a gifted cast and the sensitive conducting of Stephen Lord.
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To Met fans who had grown used to the baritonal colorings of PlÃ¡cido Domingo's Otello, Ben Heppner's true-tenor sound will be a revelation.
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It's a rare talent that would make Mstislav Rostropovich feel second-rate in comparison. Dmitri Shostakovich had it.
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Intense music performed by Alexandra du Bois, Alexander Fiterstein and Nicholas Canellakis made for a fitting evening at the floating concert hall on Wednesday.
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The orchestraâs performances at Carnegie Hall this week reminded listeners that character and distinctiveness in classical music have not been obliterated entirely.