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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Joshua Barone |Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim |Zachary Woolfe
‘Salome’Those looking for the full, lurid grandeur of Strauss’s “Salome” could find it this spring in a new production at the Metropolitan Opera. But in February, the scrappy company Heartbeat Opera pre-empted the Met with a thrillingly pared-down version, putting the audience just feet from the action and reducing a huge orchestra to two percussionists and an octet of clarinetists who played a total of 28 instruments, including a handful of saxophones.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Joshua Barone |Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim |Zachary Woolfe |Oussama Zahr
Watch and listen to five recent highlights, including Metropolitan Opera performances, the posthorn solo in Mahler's Third and music by Tomeka Reid. The New York Times's classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments. Performed by Alexander Vinogradov at the Metropolitan Opera. For an opera lover seeking a bit of escapist fun, Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" seems like a safe bet.
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Mar 6, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Joshua Barone |Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim |Zachary Woolfe |Oussama Zahr
The New York Times's classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments. A clip from the Boston Symphony Orchestra's performance in April 2023. There was a time in recent memory when a performance of Julia Wolfe's "Her Story," for women's chamber choir and orchestra, would have passed without incident.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
nytimes.com | Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim
Even after giving birth? I credit the Queen with bringing me back postpartum with both of my kids. The first time I was nursing my 6-week-old daughter backstage between arias - I had had a C-section and to have all the muscles of my support system slashed in half was terrifying. It was a questionable decision for my mental health, but certainly for my financial health I didn't really feel I had a choice. And the Queen brought me back.
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