It was this performance that stood out most of all when the EIF brochure was issued last autumn. Richard Strauss’s second opera based on Sophocles and his first collaboration with Hugo von Hofmannsthal succeeded in […]
“Tanglewood on Parade”, a full day and evening of music and fun, is an annual tradition at Tanglewood. This year, it was part of a week of concerts and other events curated by Yo-Yo Ma […]
The annual Leonard Bernstein Memorial Concert. Marin Alsop conducted the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, comprised of TMC Fellows who have been selected to participate in an intensive program of advanced study, instructed and mentored by […]
Presented alongside another early farsa in this year’s Rossini Opera Festival, this La scala di seta (1812) contrasts sharply with the traditional setting and direction of the exactly contemporary L’occasione fa il ladro. This is already the second revival of […]
The opportunity spoken of in the title of Rossini’s early one Act comedy for Venice (1812) comes about when two suitcases are accidentally swapped. Despite Don Parmenione’s taking a sneaky chance to win Berenice, the […]
Le Siége de Corinthe (1826) was Rossini’s first opera written in French for Paris and therefore holds an important place in his output and in the development of opera generally, made all the more fascinating […]
In this concert, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, comprised of Instrumental Fellows, performed works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Béla Bartók. Conducting Fellows Lauren Smith and Julian Gilewski led early twentieth-century works by the […]
Music Director Andris Nelsons led a scaled-down Boston Symphony Orchestra in a delightful performance, featuring an outstanding cast, most of whom were making their BSO and Tanglewood debuts. James Darrah Black’s simple yet effective concert staging had the singers […]
Productions of Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera usually draw an extensive, opulent contrast between the impoverished austerity of the home in which Hansel and Gretel live with their parents, and the Witch’s gingerbread house offering the illusion of an endless feast of enticing sweetmeats on which […]
An atmosphere of celebration pervaded the Royal Opera House for the opening night of ‘Marianela – Timeless’, an evening curated by The Royal Ballet’s reigning ballerina, Marianela Nuñez, who, at the age of 44 and […]
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