Zachary Woolfe

United States

Classical Music Critic at The New York Times

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Lakota Music Project Merges Two Traditions for One Common Cause

3 days ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

For almost 20 years, the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra has been collaborating with Native artists, aiming to address a history of racial tension. From left, William Cedeño Torres, Jeffrey Paul and Bryan Akipa playing during the workshop. The Prairie Wind Casino and Hotel is a couple of modest buildings just inside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota.
Hear the Sound of a New Generation of South Korean Musicians

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Woolfe

8 hours agoFrom allegations of infidelity to swinging scandals, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives offers a look into a version of Mormon life far removed from traditional public perception. Set in suburban Utah, the TV series follows a group of Mormon women – most of whom rose to fame on TikTok and became …
Waiting for Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic Is Doing Just Fine

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Woolfe

Waiting for Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic Is Doing Just FineBetween music directors this season, the orchestra has been sounding fresh, engaged and more cohesive. The New York Philharmonic is flying free. Its former music director, Jaap van Zweden, left last summer. Its next, Gustavo Dudamel, is gradually deepening his commitment — including performances of …
Waiting for Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic Is Doing Fine

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

Between music directors this season, the orchestra has been sounding fresh, engaged and more cohesive. The New York Philharmonic is flying free. Its former music director, Jaap van Zweden, left last summer. Its next, Gustavo Dudamel, is gradually deepening his commitment - including performances of Mahler's Seventh Symphony at David Geffen Hall through Sunday - but doesn't officially start until fall 2026.
Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic Play Philip Glass

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

Kate Soper's tender, whimsical "Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus," a tribute to the orchestra, had its premiere on Thursday with its composer as soloist. "Is there anything like that first strike of the bow?" Kate Soper asks at the start of her new piece for the New York Philharmonic. "A hundred players moving as one! All that splendor, all that might!"She is describing the wonders of an orchestra, and you don't have to take her word for it.
Review: Dudamel Unveils a Love Letter to the Philharmonic

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Zachary Woolfe

9 hours agoWhat’s happening this season in TV, movies, music, art, theatre, and dance. Shauna Lyon Goings On editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Whether you are one with the sun or in love with your A.C. …
Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss's 'Salome'

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

Manon Fleur Antonio and the soprano Elza van den Heever in Claus Guth's staging of "Salome" at the Metropolitan Opera; here the seven veils have become seven versions of Salome. Credit... Metropolitan Opera In Strauss's "Salome," is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history.
John Adams's 'Antony and Cleopatra' Sags at the Metropolitan Opera

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

John Adams's Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse. "Antony and Cleopatra" played a crucial role in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1966, Samuel Barber's new adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy opened the company's Lincoln Center home - back when the Met barely did anything from the 20th century, let alone world premieres. Things could hardly be more different now.
The Classical Music Our Critics Can't Stop Thinking About

4 weeks 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.
Pierre Audi, Eminent Force in the Performing Arts, Dies at 67

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Zachary Woolfe

After turning a derelict lecture hall into the daring Almeida Theater, he had a long career as a director and impresario in Europe and New York. Pierre Audi, the stage director and impresario whose transformation of a derelict London lecture hall into the cutting-edge Almeida Theater was the opening act in a long career as one of the world's most eminent performing arts leaders, died on Friday night in Beijing. He was 67.

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Articles

Lakota Music Project Merges Two Traditions for One Common Cause

Hear the Sound of a New Generation of South Korean Musicians

Waiting for Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic Is Doing Just Fine

Waiting for Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic Is Doing Fine

Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic Play Philip Glass

Review: Dudamel Unveils a Love Letter to the Philharmonic

Seven Takes on the Lurid Dance of the Seven Veils in Strauss's 'Salome'

John Adams's 'Antony and Cleopatra' Sags at the Metropolitan Opera

The Classical Music Our Critics Can't Stop Thinking About

Pierre Audi, Eminent Force in the Performing Arts, Dies at 67

Journalists covering the same region

Ben Orner

James Flippin

Andrea Cambron

Michael McAllister

Eduardo Cuevas

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