CUARTETANGO Brings New Music To A Secret, Century-Old Chapel
Come join for a one of a kind PIAZZOLLA100 program featuring the double Latin GRAMMY-Award nominated CUARTETANGO string quartet at the acoustically superior historic Chapel of the Good Shepherd (c.1888). The concert will feature works by Piazzolla and excerpts from 'The Rites of Love,' a new ballet composed by Leonardo Suarez-Paz about right to love freely.
Leonardo Suarez Paz Brings Multi-Disciplinary Show to NYU Skirball
Following a sold-out performance at the famed “Ballena Azul,” CCK in Buenos Aires, the multifaceted “virtuoso extraordinaire,” (Wynton Marsalis), Leonardo Suarez Paz, brings his genre-redefining, multidisciplinary performance to NYU Skirball, sharing his unique vision of the genre across a century of immigrant struggles and triumphs. Leonardo honors his mentor, Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine born and New York raised composer by recreating Nuevo Tango as an evolving, daring, artistically complex, and emotionally moving art form.
Review Roundup: Critics Weigh In On Netrebko In TOSCA at The Met
Sir David McVicar's “smashing new production” is “a grand triumph” (Huffington Post), offering a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Netrebko. Vittorio Grigolo and Yusif Eyvazov alternate in the role of Tosca's revolutionary artist lover Cavaradossi, with Željko Lu?i? and Michael Volle as the depraved police chief Scarpia. Emmanuel Villaume and Bertrand de Billy share conducting duties
Review Roundup: What Did The Critics Think Of Lucia di Lammermoor at The Met?
The role of the fragile title heroine who teeters between love and madness is shared by sopranos Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti and Pretty Yende, who have each impressed audiences with dazzling bel canto portrayals at the Met. Vittorio Grigolo and Michael Fabiano share the role of her lover in this chilling production by Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman. Roberto Abbado conducts.