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 —…
A St. Louis native, Andrew Chester, was among those selected - by online audition - for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Chester studied tuba with Gary Lipsutz of the St. Louis Brass Band, and was a member of the St. Louis…
The repercussions of H.K. Gruber’s non-arrival in New York for last Friday night’s concert with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra continue to echo. Thanks to Robertson’s last-minute debut as a singer/kazooist in Zankel Hall, he and the…
Class act: The group of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra musicians who performed in Zankel Hall on Friday night did so after playing a concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan the night before, spending weary hours attempting to get to New York,…
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…
NEW YORK - There is a popular misconception that opera always involves heavy-duty stories and emotions, that it’s always serious, that someone — or several someones — must always perish by the end.
Not so.
As Exhibit A, consider Donizetti’s sweet, tuneful,…
NEW YORK - They made it… all but one.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Friday night concert in Zankel Hall, carved out of the bedrock beneath Carnegie Hall, benefited from an 8:30 p.m. start. Not all the luggage arrived in time,…
(Post-Dispatch classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller is in New York this weekend for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s two Carnegie Hall concerts. This is the first in a series of occasional posts.)
NEW YORK - They’re cutting it awfully…
St. Louis-based dramatic soprano Christine Brewer was already scheduled to do her first fully-staged Brünnhildes in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at New York’s Metropolitan Opera; now she’s added another cycle to that wash.
Brewer was set to sing the role…
Soprano Christine Brewer is the St. Louis area’s own classical music superstar, a warm and funny woman who still lives in a little house in Lebanon, Illinois, a few blocks from her alma mater, McKendree University.
At 4 p.m. on Tuesday,…
