Marcelo Gomes as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake.
Credit: Rosalie O'Connor
Seeing Double American Ballet Theatre’s repertory is well stocked with works that offer dancers the opportunity
to exploit something rather like a split personality.
Nina Stemme: Becoming Salome This month,
Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a
rare concert performance of Strauss’s Salome. In a recent break from her
performances in Tosca at the Vienna State Opera,
Nina Stemme discussed the challenge of performing as
Salome in what will be her Carnegie Hall debut.
Symphony in C, the effervescent tutu ballet George Balanchine
choreographed in 1947 for the Paris Opéra Ballet, returns to the
New York City Ballet repertory at the Company’s Spring Gala on
May 10, after an absence of four years.
Magnus Lindberg’s journey as a composer, and three years as
the Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence, has brought the
former radical to a warm embrace of tradition. Scott Timberg
explores the path that has led to the premiere of the Finn’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 this month.
To close out the St. Louis Symphony subscription season, Stephen Hough
plays the “Rach Fest,” in which the phenomenally skilled piano virtuoso
takes on the formidable task of performing three Rachmaninoff concerts
over two weekends.
The foundation of the strings and often the baritone
melodists, the cello section plays a varied role in the
orchestra, a diversity that Rebecca Winzenried has
observed among the lives of the musicians themselves.
The revival of a long forgotten French opera was cheered by Parisian opera fans. Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's La Muette de Portici, which just finished a run at the Opéra-Comique, has proven to be a celebrated success and a highlight of the season.
As springtime comes into full bloom, rising star American tenor Nicholas Phan, named one of NPR’s Favorite New Artists of 2011, prepares for two exciting firsts.
This spring, the Met presents the first complete cycles of Robert Lepage’s groundbreaking new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, led by Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. How do the singers prepare for the daunting task of bringing Wagner’s vast cosmos to vocal life?
This summer, for the first time in 16 years,
New York’s dance fans will be able to experience ballet in its original language, when the Paris Opera Ballet settles into the David H. Koch Theater for 12 performances as part of the
annual Lincoln Center Festival.
Jaap van Zweden, the former violinist who is now a
conductor, makes his Philharmonic debut this month.
Olivia Giovetti reveals how his appearance represents
a kind of homecoming.
This month,
Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a
rare concert performance of Strauss’s Salome. In a recent break from her
performances in Tosca at the Vienna State Opera,
Nina Stemme discussed the challenge of performing as
Salome in what will be her Carnegie Hall debut.
