Yesterday, it was announced that James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, had to withdraw from several performances because of sudden unexpected back surgery.
Today two more substitutes were named. Edo de Waart, a…
James Levine
Indefatigable conductor James Levine, music director of both the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has withdrawn from several performances with both institutions due to what the the BSO’s press release called “immediate unanticipated back surgery for a…
Although some of the news from the Metropolitan Opera has been on the grim side this year — for example, next season’s anticipated-but-expensive revival of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles was canceled in favor of a safer, cheaper bet —…
NEW YORK – I planned my trip to New York around the happy confluence of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s annual concerts at Carnegie Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings, and soprano Christine Brewer’s scheduled Bruennhilde in “Die Walkuere” at…
If you should someday find yourself running an opera company, keep this in mind: Don’t ever put a choreographer in charge of an entire production, unless dance is really all you care about. (And in that case, you should be…
The British music magazine Gramophone has compiled a list of what its editors and a few select others consider the world’s best orchestras. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra isn’t on it.
Some of the selections may reflect the locations of the…
The Met’s highly successful series of live high definition opera broadcasts continues on Saturday at noon with Hector Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust (The Damnation of Faust),” in a new high-tech production by Robert LePage. The production is led by…
