Music
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Meeting Conductor Andris Nelsons
Is Rising Star on BSO's Short List
By: - Mar 17th, 2011After a stunning performance at the New York Philharmonic a month ago, when he tackled Shostakovich to shattering effect, Andris Nelsons shot to the top of the list of every orchestra manager around the world. On March 17, he debuts with the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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Foghat at the Colonial
Band Rock's April 2
By: - Mar 17th, 2011New York rock band Foghat will take the stage of the Colonial for a one night only concert event Saturday, April 2 at 8pm .Foghat is a hard-rocking British quartet that was founded in the early 1970s and has toured relentlessly ever since. Their hard work has earned them seven Gold records, one Platinum record, one Double-Platinum record and a legion of loyal fans around the world.
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The Boston Symphony Arrives at Carnegie
Marcelo Lehninger Conducts
By: - Mar 17th, 2011Listening to the magnificent performance of the Boston Symphony with Christian Tetzlaff as violin soloist, you would never have guessed that the orchestra had recently experienced a perhaps predictable but none the less disturbing upheaval. On they went in their inimitable style, producing exciting and beautiful music.
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Boston Legends All-Star ConcertTour
Foxboro, Portsmouth, Pittsfield and Rutland
By: - Mar 14th, 2011A stellar line-up of legendary Boston rock musicians, who have played with The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, Boston, The Joe Perry Project and other notable acts, have joined together to play an All-Star concert at four dates around New England.
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The Collegiate Chorale at Central Synagogue
A Moving Tribute to Songs of the Concentration Camps
By: - Mar 13th, 2011The Collegiate Chorale under conductor James Bagwell sang a magnificent program of songs which buoyed occupants on the concentration camps in Europe during the Second World War. Memory was well served by this touching tribute.
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Handel's Agrippina by Boston Lyric Opera
Hilarious Decadence and Depravity in Nero's Rome
By: - Mar 13th, 2011A contemporary production of George Frideric Handel’s comic opera “Agrippina,†which premiered in Venice in 1709 and concerns the shenanigans of a young Nero and his ambitious mother, the lady of the title, is going to be a hit. And it is. Of course it helps that the music is by Handel, one of the greatest artists of any age to set words to music.
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Roger McGuinn at the Clark April 9
Byrds Founder Flies Solo in Williamstown
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Roger McGuinn, the co-founder of the legendary group The Byrds, will perform a special solo concert at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 pm. McGuinn, the founding father of folk-rock, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 as the leader of The Byrds, one of the most influential bands in modern musical history.
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Lucia di Lammermoor March 19
Met Live in HD at the Clark Art Institute
By: - Mar 10th, 2011Gaetano Donizetti’s tragic masterpiece, Lucia di Lammermoor, comes to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 19 at 1 pm, live from the Metropolitan Opera as part of the Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD.
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James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera
His Intense Schedule is Cause for Concern
By: - Mar 08th, 2011While general manager Peter Gelb tries to keep his artists and staff calm, Maestro Levine's health, and what he will and will not be able to do, is creating daily issues at the Metropolitan Opera. But the artistic concerns extend beyond just the status of Levine.
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Joyce Di Donato Debuts at Carnegie Hall
A Mesmerizing Mezzo Captivates
By: - Mar 07th, 2011Di Donato is a favorite among opera afficiandos, While some talent does not translate well from opera house to concert hall, Di Donato is superb in both venues. But the special spell of Carnegie, captured by the Hall's reverberation of sound, made this concert particularly winning.
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Opera Orchestra of New York Presents Meyerbeer
Eve Queler Triumphs
By: - Mar 04th, 2011Eve Queler's last performance with her Opera Orchestra was a brilliant performance of L"africaine, an underappreciated Giacomo Meyerbeer opera with libretto by the incomparable Eugene Scribe. She started with Richard Tucker in the role of Vasco de Gama, and ended with Marcello Giordani. An epic opera for an epic moment in her career.
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Hindemith' s Cardillac at Opera Boston
Rarely Staged and Now We Know Why
By: - Mar 03rd, 2011From the superb orchestral playing and the passionate conducting of Opera Boston’s music director Gil Rose to the committed singing of the entire cast - but especially Sanford Sylvan, for whom the production was mounted - to the well-conceived and well-executed stage direction, one could not have hoped for a better production of a tough modern opera.
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Jansen and Barnatan Perform at Poisson Rouge
New York's Hot Venue for Music New, Newer and Old
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Le Poisson Rouge on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village packs an audience in nightly for intimate performances of all kinds of music. On Monday, Janine Jansen and Inon Barnatan performed their magical dialogue.
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James Levine to Leave BSO September 1
Status of Tanglewood Commitment Unclear
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011Because of a number of health related issues, absences, recoveries and setbacks the tenure of James Levine as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will end on September 1. He assumed the position in 2004. Levine serves in a similar role at the Metropolitan Opera where no statement on his status has been released. Having cancelled the remainder of the BSO season it remains to be seen whether he will be able to resume his duties at Tanglewood for the coming season.
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Maestro Levine Steps Down in Boston
Five Years of Health Issues Forces a Change
By: - Mar 02nd, 2011No one wants to see the Maestro go, but in fairness to the Boston Symphony, artists, and the audience, the time had come for a change.
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Wilco Announces Solid Sound Festival Lineup
Levon Helm's Band Among Highlights
By: - Mar 01st, 2011In what promises to be one of the most diverse lineups on this year’s festival circuit, the Chicago rock band Wilco, who headline Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25, will be joined by iconic American singer Levon Helm and his band, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, soul singer Syl Johnson, jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas, alternative country twosome The Handsome Family and more.
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky's Song Fills Carnegie Hall
Faure, Taneyev, Liszt and Tchaikovsky
By: - Feb 22nd, 2011Dmitri Hvorostovsky's voice is as distinctive as the songs he choses to sing, and was unforgettable in his most recent Carnegie Hall performance. He is in Boston on February 27 at Symphony Hall.
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James Levine Conducts The Bartered Bride
Juilliard and the Metropolitan Opera Join Forces
By: - Feb 18th, 2011Hopefully this union of the Met and Juilliard will result in more early productions of future Met stagings. The Bartered Bride, a favorite of Maestro Levine's, proved a wonderful jumping off point for the alliance. Levine had his young orchestra sounding wonderfully close to the Met Orchestra. The staging by Stephen Wadsworth bodes well for the future Met production.
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Girl of the Golden West: Chicago Lyric Opera
Deborah Voigt and Marco Vratogna Star
By: - Feb 15th, 2011Debate about whether or not this opera is Italian, disappointment that the arias were shorter than usual, ignoring brilliant performances by Caruso and Destinn, the opera went into hiding for a hundred years. The Lyric production shows why it will be good to have it live and kicking again.
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Nixon In China Kindah Live in HD
Almost Like Being at the Met
By: - Feb 13th, 2011The cameras of the Live at the Met broadcast of the John Adams opera Nixon in China provided stunning details of singers who proved to be skilled actors. While there is nothing that compares to being there this came rather close to the experience. We attended with just half a house at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown.
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A Triumphant Lohengrin at the Lyric
Johan Botha Soars as the Swan Knight
By: - Feb 12th, 2011The Lyric Opera of Chicago has mounted a production of Wagner's great lyric musical drama with six voices of equal stature led by the stentorian Johan Botha. Wagner's music is gorgeous, and when it is realized as it is in this Lyric production, it is an event not to be missed. It continues through March 8.
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Creators Discuss Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera
What to Expect in HD Telecast
By: - Feb 11th, 2011Any ideas that Nixon in China is inaccessible were dismissed by five collaborators on this great American opera which premiered two decades ago in Houston. The Metropolitan Opera has mounted a Convent Garden production. It will be broadcast live in HD on February 12.
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Hot Tuna Warms Cold Berkshire Night
Gutsy Blues at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 10th, 2011Hot Tuna Blues sizzled at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It launched a busy Valentine celebration in the Berkshires. Barrington Stage is presenting a weekend long V Day Cabaret. Shakespeare & Company is opening a winter run of Mystery of Irma Vep. Williamstown Theatre Festival announces its season on Friday and hosts a reading of a Neal Simon play on Monday at the Clark. The Met Live in HD will screen Nixon in China on Saturday at the Mahaiwe, Beacon and Clark. Here's looking at you sweetheart.
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Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera
Live in HD February 12
By: - Feb 07th, 2011Nixon in China by John Adams and directed by Peter Sellars has traveled the world for twenty years and finally arrives at the Metropolitan Opera. It is wonderfully entertaining and at local theaters on February 12. In the Berkshires the opera will be screened Live in HD at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Beacon in Pittsfield and in Williamstown at the Clark Art Institute.
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Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Emerson's Cutler Majestic Theatre
By: - Feb 05th, 2011The singing, the sine qua non of bel canto opera, was terrific – full-blooded and deeply committed. The international cast of soloists sang their hearts out for an unfortunately small audience. There were more than a few moments of thrilling vocalism.
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