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Pianist’s recital celebrates Khachaturian as national hero
Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.
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Botstein, ASO unearth buried treasure with Strauss’s “Guntram”
Guntram, Richard Strauss’s first opera, didn’t bomb when it premiered in Weimar in 1894. That happened with the second ...
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Bizarro Zemlinsky opera needs an ironic touch of the Wilde
The Little Opera Theatre of New York has a curious production titled Zemlinsky’s Zimmer/Zemlinsky’s Room, which opened ...
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An evening of color, brilliance and virtuosity from Teatro Real at Carnegie
The concerto was an appropriate nod to Dueñas’ acknowledged fascination with the great violinists of the past, as Jascha ...
New York Classical Review14d
Dudamel’s season-closing Mahler bridges Philharmonic’s past and future
Dudamel is leading the Philharmonic’s closing weeks, and the season’s final subscription program was Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, ...
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Kissin and friends explore Shostakovich sonatas at Carnegie
Evgeny Kissin performed Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata with Gidon Kremer Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and ...
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Corinne Winters shines in Met’s closing “Bohème” cast
Corinne Winters is Mimi in the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Photo: Scott Suchman/Washington National Opera Mimi’s fragility was instantly evident when Winters alarmingly ...