The New York Philharmonic presents a remake of Beethoven’s sole opera, ‘Fidelio,’ with entirely new music, and the result is a gloomy production leached of the original’s passion. A scene from ‘prisoner of the state’ PHOTO: CHRIS LEEByHeidi WalesonJune 12, 2019 2:47 p.m. ET New York With “prisoner of the state,” given its world premiere last week …
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Boston Early Music Festival. Steffani.
New York Philharmonic. david lang.
The North American premiere of Heiner Goebbels’s deconstructed portrait of the past 120 years; a stripped-down Purcell work performed in a cemetery’s catacombs. A scene from ‘Everything That Happened and Would Happen’ Photo: Stephanie Berger for Park Avenue Armory By Heidi Waleson June 6, 2019 4:22 p.m. ET New York I’m all for recycling, but …
Greenwood Cemetery. Forget my fate.
At The Armory — a new candidate for one of the worst five things I’ve seen. I should have seen it coming with the Gertrude Stein quotation at the front of the program. Heiner Goebbels needs to know a bit more about history and philosophy before holding forth. Both elitist and anti-intellectual at the same …
Furman Center panel with @errollewis and @mayawiley
The Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s epic cycle returned to New York with better results than before. A scene from ‘Götterdämmerung’ Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera By Heidi Waleson May 13, 2019 3:42 p.m. ET New York The Metropolitan Opera’s Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” returned this spring for three complete cycles, concluding …
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At the Metropolitan Museum, the stories of a runaway slave and a shunned author. Martin Bakari as Genji and Kristen Choi as Lady Murasaki in ‘Murasaki’s Moon’ Photo: Stephanie Berger By Heidi Waleson May 20, 2019 4:20 p.m. ET New York The Metropolitan Museum’s MetLiveArts programming has a strong focus on the contemporary. This season, …
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Carnegie. Liszt, Rossini. Thanks Gianandrea for the great restaurant tips.
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