Review: Jonas Kaufmann Returns to New York in 'Anxious and Heavy' DOPPELGANGER
by Richard Sasanow - Sep 25, 2023
Another year, another Met season without Jonas Kaufmann. Sigh. What’s a music lover to do? His current set of performances is at the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall--in a staged production by Claud Guth, commissioned by the Armory, of Schubert lieder, under the title DOPPELGANGER. It's an evening of autumnal chill through words and music that were “anxious and heavy,” through a heart “utterly alone.”
Con El Recital En Alas De La Canción Cierra El Ciclo Los Colores De La Voz
by A.A. Cristi - May 24, 2022
El ciclo Los colores de la voz cerrará sus actividades el domingo 29 de mayo a las 18:00 horas en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes con el recital En alas de la canción, a cargo de la soprano Lourdes Ambriz, acompañada al piano por Alberto Cruzprieto, en el marco de la estrategia #VolverAVerte de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal).
The Voice's John Holiday Debuts At The Met And NY Phil, Stars In Visual Album Now Streaming
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 16, 2021
Rising opera star, countertenor and recent finalist on NBC's The Voice John Holiday — currently making his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in Matthew Aucoin's Eurydice (December 16) and the New York Philharmonic in Handel's Messiah at The Riverside Church (December 14 to 18) — stars in After/Glow by award-winning director Ryan McKinny.
BWW Review: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON WITH RAEHANN BRYCE-DAVIS at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Nov 10, 2021
Bryce Davis and Cilliers opened their recital program with Richard Strauss' and John Henry Mackay's uplifting 'Heimliche Aufforderung' ('The Secret Invitation'). This joyous, celebratory composition was the composer's gift to his bride on their wedding day. Bryce-Davis sang it with exquisite vocal colors. Next was Robert Schumann 'Die Lotosblume' ('The Lotus Flower') in which the poet Heinrich Heine described the beauty of the love between the flower and the moon. Bryce-Davis showed the lyric tones of her voice as she told of this delicate love.
SOPHIE KOCH & BERTRAND CHAMAYOU Come to Theatre du Capitole Toulousse This Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 5, 2021
Deux grands artistes au sommet de leur art. La magnifique Sophie Koch, inoubliable Ariane et Kundry sur notre scène, s’allie au piano magicien, sensuel et lumineux de Bertrand Chamayou. Tous deux explorent le Lied et la mélodie du premier XXe siècle, entre impressionnisme et expressionnisme, entre postromantisme et avant-garde.
Theater Basel to Present GISELLE
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 30, 2020
Giselle gilt als der Inbegriff des romantischen Balletts. Es wurde 1841 in Paris uraufgeführt und erzählt die Geschichte eines Bauernmädchens, das sich in einen Herzog verliebt. Pontus Lidberg transportiert die Geschichte ins Heute. Seine Giselle ist eine Migrantin, die der reiche Albrecht am Ende fallen lässt. Sie erscheint ihm daraufhin im Traum.
BWW Review: LIV A LITTLE! at Pasadena Conservatory Of Music
by Maria Nockin - Jan 12, 2020
On Saturday afternoon January 11, 2020, Pittance Chamber Music presented a concert of infrequently heard music at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. Pittance is made up of members of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. Soloists included soprano Liv Redpath, pianist Paul Floyd, and Principal Clarinetist Stuart Clark.
The International Street Cannibals Presents SCHOENBERG DNA With Pianist Conor Hanick, Soprano Ariadne Greif and Violinist Anna Tsukervanik
by Stephi Wild - Apr 17, 2019
The innovative new-music ensemble The International Street Cannibals (ISC) presents Schoenberg DNA a concert of vocal and chamber works featuring the brilliant duo of pianist Conor Hanick and soprano Ariadne Greif, with award-winning violinist Anna Tsukervanik. Centered around Schoenberg's radical musical ideas, the program will trace an evolutionary trajectory starting from Beethoven and Schumann, to Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler, to the Second Viennese School with Alban Berg and Anton Webern, all the way to the music of the great Hungarian composer Gy rgy Kurtag. Hanick and Greif will traverse a repertoire of art songs spanning from 1825 to 1908, and Tsukervanik will join Hanick to perform works for violin and piano by Webern and Kurt g. The concert is presented by The International Street Cannibals (ISC) and is a creation of Ariadne Greif, Conor Hanick, and ISC's founder/director Dan Barrett.
Chanticleer Performs One Night Only At The Kennedy Center On April 2, 2019
by Stephi Wild - Mar 5, 2019
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Composer in Residence Mason Bates continue the 2018-2019 season of their immersive new-music series, KC Jukebox, with the renowned male a cappella groupChanticleer on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in the Family Theater. The penultimate program of the KC Jukebox season will feature the music by Robert Shaw, Kurt Weill, Steven Stucky, Ned Rorem, and Queen's Freddie Mercury-all anchored by Bates's 30-minute song cycle, Sirens.
BWW Review: Historic Return of the BALLET NACIONAL DE CUBA at the Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - Jun 1, 2018
It was 40 years ago this week that the Ballet Nacional de Cuba made its historic U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center. There, the remarkable Alicia Alonso was not only artistic director but star performer, who became a ballet force at the American Ballet Theatre and elsewhere despite an eye condition she had since a teenager that caused partial blindness.