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Orchestra 2001: Four Views of Nature and Religion

Gunfire and birdsong

Orchestra 2001 presents a star-studded program with a valedictory look at its past.

Tom Purdom

May 17, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Elliot Madore as Don Giovanni with Cecelia Hall as Zerlina. Photo by Dominic Mercier

Opera Philadelphia's 'Don Giovanni'

The Wilt Chamberlain of the 18th century

Nicholas Muni’s new production shows how you can reinvent a classic, Don Giovanni, without changing its period or distorting its story.

Steve Cohen

May 13, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Nylund: Credible lust, from the Bible to Wilde to Strauss.

Strauss’s ‘Salome’ in concert (2nd review)

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s subscription concert season concluded with a lavish, semi-staged version of Richard Strauss’s Salome, mounted in collaboration with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. The two chief principals met the vocal and acoustic demands of the production triumphantly, but the Orchestra itself, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, was the real star of the proceedings.

Robert Zaller

May 13, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Camilla Nylund as Salome, Alan Held as Jochanaan (John the Baptist). Photo by Dominic Mercier.

Strauss's 'Salome' in concert (1st review)

The plight of a seriously spurned lover

One of the most powerful of all operas, a 20th-century masterpiece, receives a memorable performance.

Steve Cohen

May 10, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

The manuscript of Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" was found in Wynnewood almost a decade ago.

The Daedalus Quartet and Ricardo Morales at the Perelman Theater

Music in a mirror

Beethoven's Quartet No. 13, with the original fugal ending, was the major work on a fine recital by the Daedalus Quartet that also included the premiere of Robert Capanna’s String Trio. With clarinetist Ricardo Morales, splendid as always.

Robert Zaller

May 08, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Cynthia Raim: A suspicious failure to age.

Musicians from Marlboro III

Conflict and integration

The Musicians from Marlboro bring a consoling message to conflicted souls and present a bravura performance by one of the master pianists who enrich Philadelphia’s musical life.

Tom Purdom

May 06, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

Batiashvili: Lyric yearning, in a shimmering blue gown.

Orchestra Plays Barber, Bartók, and Bruckner

Three other B’s

Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Orchestra in familiar Barber and Bruckner and unfamiliar Bartók in the season’s penultimate concert.

Robert Zaller

May 06, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Leonard (left), Phillips: Beyond male chauvinism. (Photo: Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.)

Levine conducts ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Met

Welcome back, James

James Levine, returning to the Met after a two-year absence, led a performance of Così fan tutte that made us forget the plot’s silliness as we reveled in the music’s subtleties.

Steve Cohen

May 05, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's 'Anthracite Fields'

A Battle Hymn for the Industrial Revolution

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields, a hardheaded look at the relationship between the economic progress of the last two centuries and the sacrifices of the economic foot soldiers who made it possible.

Tom Purdom

Apr 30, 2014 Articles 4 minute read