Classical Music Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 29

BWW Reviews: Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents a Dazzling Evening of American Music
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - July 08, 2013

"Three hundred miles north of everywhere," the small but bustling college town of Brunswick, Maine, attracts some of the world's most prestigious musicians to its summer festival. The Bowdoin International Music Festival, now in its forty-ninth year, is a performance and practice program where 250 c...

BWW Reviews: Fort Worth Symphony Dazzles Audiences with Concerts in the Garden
by Anton Anderssen - July 05, 2013

Superb classical music is alive and well in Fort Worth, where talented musical artists perform in beautiful settings, beneath the twinkling stars, and patrons show up by the thousands to enjoy them....

BWW Reviews: Russian Opera Workshop Programs Begin With RUSSIAN ROMANCES
by Marakay Rogers - June 30, 2013

Ghenady Meirson's annual young vocalists program begins with a recital of Rachmaninov art songs and more...

BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY Film is Accompanied by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
by Charles Shubow - June 23, 2013

Three cast members of the Academy Award winning film present fascinating stories about the making of the film WEST SIDE STORY....

BWW Reviews: POWDER HER FACE Stuns At Opera Philadelphia
by Marakay Rogers - June 12, 2013

Soprano Patricia Schuman leads Opera Philadelphia in a visually and vocally marvelous production of the modern chamber orchestra classic...

BWW Reviews: James Levine Returns to Carnegie Hall
by Peter Danish - June 11, 2013

He's baa-aack! James Levine returns to Carnegie Hall....

BWW Reviews: IL PRIGIONIERO Holds Audience Captive at New York Philharmonic
by Richard Sasanow - June 08, 2013

It's a rare occasion when a concerto--even one as brilliantly played as violinist Lisa Batiashvili's performance of Prokofiev's First--takes a back seat to the second half of the program. But the New York Philharmonic's concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's IL PRIGIONIERO, conducted authorita...

BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Delights Adelaide Audiences
by Barry Lenny - June 03, 2013

The Adelaide Festival Centre was opened in 1973 by then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the Premier of South Australia at that time, Don Dunstan. To celebrate that opening, the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra jointly presented this sensational concert....

BWW Reviews: The Firm's CONCERT 1, SCHUBERT Delights Adelaide Audience
by Barry Lenny - May 30, 2013

In his short 32 years Schubert composed an enormous amount of music, including over 600 lieder (songs), nine symphonies, including his famous Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the Unfinished Symphony. This concert was performed by soprano Emma Horwood, male alto Matthew Rutty, tenor Martin Penhale, and bas...

BWW Reviews: Boykan and BMOP Present Boykan's ORCHESTRAL WORKS
by Marakay Rogers - May 26, 2013

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project provides a fine recording of Martin Boykan's works for full orchestra, with soloists Macomber and Sylvan...

BWW Reviews: BMOP Presents Reza Vali's TOWARD THAT ENDLESS PLAIN
by Marakay Rogers - May 25, 2013

Iranian composer Vali's concerto for Persian ney and orchestra debuts on CD with two of his Persian folk song cycles. Soloists Khosrow Soltani and Janna Baty, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project directed by Gil Rose, highlight the compositions....

BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY at the Symphony Gives New Life to Classic Movie
by Alan Henry - May 29, 2013

West Side Story at the Symphony is an incredible experience, combining the classic movie with a a score played live by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra....

BWW Reviews: Tempesta di Mare's GREAT BOOKS Program is One for the Books
by Marakay Rogers - May 13, 2013

Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone save their audience some reading time by letting them enjoy the musical versions of several literary classics....

BWW Reviews: Piffaro Goes BACK BEFORE BACH at 2013 Philadelphia Bach Festival
by Marakay Rogers - May 06, 2013

The fourth concert of the 3013 Bach Festival presented the forerunners of J.S. Bach -- Praetorius, Lassus, Melchior Franck and Bach's own family....

BWW Reviews: SHOW BOAT Rolls Along at Washington National Opera
by Jeffrey Walker - May 06, 2013

SHOW BOAT is back in an appealing production by the Washington National Opera. The Kennedy Center Opera House is a fitting berth for Captain Andy's Cotton Blossom and the happy/troubled show folk who make it their home. Boasting a cast and chorus of 100, WNO's SHOW BOAT allows the story to roll alon...

BWW Reviews: Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Time Travel at PIFA to Swinging Sixties Spy Movie Music
by Marakay Rogers - April 30, 2013

The PIFA time travel theme took the Philly Pops to the birth of the James Bond film franchise... and beyond...

BWW Reviews: Soprano Nina Stemme Leaves Audience 'In the Dark' with Swedish Chamber Orchestra
by Richard Sasanow - April 26, 2013

Anyone expecting vocal fireworks from soprano Nina Stemme's appearance last night at Alice Tully Hall with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, under Thomas Dausgaard, was woefully disappointed. Count me as one of them....

BWW Reviews: Bach Festival Society Teams Up with Orlando Ballet to Create CARMINA BURANA
by Kimberly Moy - April 16, 2013

CARMINA BURANA ran from April 12-April 14th at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. It was by far the best theatrical experience bringing together two of Orlando's best. CARMINA BURANA featured Orlando Ballet and the choir and orchestra of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park. Choreographed by R...

BWW Reviews: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Celebrates the Fall of the Berlin Wall at PIFA
by Marakay Rogers - April 11, 2013

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Conductor Laureate Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the Mendelssohn Club, and the Center for Emerging Visual Art paid tribute to one of the great events of modern history during the PIFA celebrations in a well-received performance of musical, vocal, and visual art...

BWW Reviews: Bernstein's MASS at Penn State a Monumental Undertaking and a Giant Performance
by Marakay Rogers - April 09, 2013

The fiftieth anniversary of the College of Arts and Architecture was celebrated in style with a major production of the celebrated (and sometimes excoriated) 'theatre piece'...

BWW Reviews: World Premiere of Michael Daugherty's REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSISSIPPI
by Marakay Rogers - March 30, 2013

On March 24, Philadelphia Orchestra principal tubist Carol Jantsch and the Grammy-nominated Temple University Symphony Orchestra presented the world premiere of Daugherty's new concerto to a receptive and enthusiastic audience...

BWW Reviews: Emanuel Ax in Recital of Beethoven and Chopin Through Gretna Music
by Marakay Rogers - March 27, 2013

Noted pianist Emanuel Ax delighted the audience at Leffler Performance Center in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania with his performance of the 'Pathetique' and other works...

BWW Review: Utah Symphony's DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING? is Sublime
by Tyler Hinton - March 07, 2013

Utah Symphony recently presented the sublime "Do You Hear the People Sing: From Les Mis to Miss Saigon" concert at Abravanel Hall....

BWW Reviews: New York Philharmonic Presents a CAROUSEL You Never Want to Get Off
by Peter Danish - March 05, 2013

Musically, 'Carousel' is by far the most intelligently written and sophisticated of the entire Rodgers and Hammerstein canon. The story and some of the lyrics may betray just a hint of datedness, but not enough to undermine the brilliance of the work, even approaching seventy years after it was writ...

BWW Reviews: HAIRSPRAY Concert with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - One for the Ages
by Charles Shubow - February 11, 2013

It was a night to remember when John Waters narrated the story of Hairspray to a sold-out crowd at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore....