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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 ...
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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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Dudamel kicks off Philharmonic weeks with bracing American music, old and new
Gustavo Dudamel led the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky, Kate Soper, and Philip Glass Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Gustavo Dudamel won’t become the New York ...
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Met’s terrific “Barber” cast serves up a riotous evening of Rossini
Isabel Leonard and Lawrence Brownlee star in Rossini’s II Barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl Opera companies simply do not stage enough comic operas. The fact that ...