The festival published next summer’s plans this morning. The eye-catcher is an attempt by Peter Sellars to combine Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung with the finale of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, both written in 1909. […]
Friends of Rodion Shchedrin, who died last night, are sharing reminiscences online: Pianist Denis Matsuev: Ten years have passed since the muse Rodion Konstantinovich, the great Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya passed away. And today her husband […]
From the general manager’s self-admiring Sunday sermon in the pushover NY Times: … I arrived at the Met in 2006 with plans to re-energize its audience engagement through new productions of the classics and new […]