Vol. 42, No. 10 / June 2024

Music

  • January 2005

    Opera note

    by

    Patrick J. Smith

    On Handel’s Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.

  • January 2005

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On City Opera’s broadway-style production of Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein; the complete string quartets of Bartok performed by the Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall; the New York Philharmonic with guest conductors: James Conlon, David Robertson, and Sakari Oramo; & Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera.

  • December 2004

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the Great Performers Series at Avery Fisher Hall with pianist Mikhail Pletnev and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt; the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov at Carnegie Hall with featured soloists including Hélène Grimaud, Vadim Repin and Lynn Harrell; & Charles Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories at the City Opera, New York.

  • November 2004

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the opening of the New York Philharmonic’s 2004-2005 season under Lorin Maazel, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center under new artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han, the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Traviata, Daphne and Platée at New York City Opera & Otello and Carmen under James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera.

  • November 2004

    Opera note

    by

    Patrick J. Smith

    On Don Giovianni, Simon Boccanegra, Beatrice and Benedict, Agrippina & La Sonnambula at the Santa Fe Opera.

  • October 2004

    Salzburg chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On this year’s Salzburg Festival, including the Czech Philharmonic and Chorus conducted by Gerd Albrecht, a recital by singer Violeta Urmana, and Korngold’s opera Die tote Stadt.

  • September 2004

    Great conductors, the end

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On a final batch of conductors from the series titled Great Conductors of the 20th Century including Eduard van Beinum, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Sergiu Celibidache, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini & George Szell.

  • June 2004

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the Mutter-Previn-Harrell Trio at Carnegie Hall, Rusalka & The Ring at the Metropolitan Opera House.

  • June 2004

    Concert Note

    by

    Patrick J. Smith

    On Sweeney Todd, Xerxes, Mourning Becomes Electra & Ermione at City Opera, New York.

  • May 2004

    New York chronicle

    by

    Jay Nordlinger

    On the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, a violin recital presented by Maxim Vengerov, with Fazil Say at the piano & Salome at the Metropolitan Opera.

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