Joshua Barone

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Joshua Barone

Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John Adams's "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Metropolitan Opera. Credit... Video by BILL MORRISON The inspirations behind the staging of "Antony and Cleopatra," which imagines a world in which celebrities can be tantamount to gods. Julia Bullock as Cleopatra in John Adams's "Antony and Cleopatra" at the Metropolitan Opera. Credit...

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Barone

The Opera Built From Pyramids, Old Hollywood and BeyoncéOn the page, John Adams’s opera “Antony and Cleopatra” is a pretty straightforward adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. But on the stage, it is something else entirely. The production of “Antony and Cleopatra” that opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday is by Elkhanah Pulitzer, who turns …

6 days 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.

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Joshua Barone

Share After the mayor issued a musical proclamation, and after Norway’s ambassador to the United States gave a speech about her country’s far-reaching history in the Midwest, Jennifer Teisinger, the executive director of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, came out with a look of pleasant surprise, and more than a little pride.“How many orchestras,” she asked from the stage of Mary W.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Joshua Barone

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore's "Giants in the Earth," a Pulitzer Prize-winning but long obscure opera. After the mayor issued a musical proclamation, and after Norway's ambassador to the United States gave a speech about her country's far-reaching history in the Midwest, Jennifer Teisinger, the executive director of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, came out with a look of pleasant surprise, and more than a little pride.