The Wagnerites turned out in force at the Art Museum on Saturday for “Tristan und Isolde,” live from the Met in HD broadcast. It starred soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Robert Dean Smith – her fourth Tristan in as many…
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra got a cold weekend to visit New York, but their playing warmed things up at Carnegie Hall.
After Friday night’s performance of Messiaen’s “Turangalila-Symphonie,” the players practically glowed. In the lobby of the Parker Meridien,…
This marks a major changing of the guard.
HENRY FOGEL TO STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT & CEO OF THE AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE AT CONCLUSION OF HIS CONTRACT
JESSE ROSEN IS NAMED NEW PRESIDENT & CEO EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2008
Fogel to…
This is an exciting collaboration from the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants. It’ll be interesting to watch and see how they do with it — and Samson et Dalila is a suitably spectacular opera — and whether…
Due to a glitch, this apparently never made it online — so here it is for online readers.
OTSL’S “ANNA KARENINA’ IS A STRONG DRAMA
By Sarah Bryan Miller
POST-DISPATCH CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
IF YOU GO: OPERA THEATRE OF ST.…
As the famous Middle English round has it, “Sumer is Icumen In,” and by late May in St. Louis, it certainly is. Given the mugginess of the summery afternoon on Sunday, it was pleasant to be in a climate-controlled environment…
From contributor George Yeh:
The March 16-18 St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concerts at Powell Hall were not the only program to undergo last-minute alterations following the withdrawal of Dawn Upshaw from those dates. The March 15 Pulitzer concert featured some…
Music director David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra played a double header on Friday. First, at 10:30, there was the morning coffee concert, the first iteration of three subscription performances they’ll give this weekend. Then, at 6:30, came…
Mezzo-soprano Kendall Gladen, a Roosevelt High School grad, has been selected as one of the twelve recipients of the San Francisco Opera Center’s 2007 Adler Fellowship. This will be her second year as a Fellow.
(As it says in the…
Given my fondness for a cappella choral music, and intrigued by word of an eight-voice ensemble coming from my home town of Kansas City, I was among the not-quite-fifty people who braved the rain and deserted the Cardinals for a…
