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Warren-Green Bids Farewell With a Rousing Beethoven “Ode to Joy”

Warren-Green Bids Farewell With a Rousing Beethoven “Ode to Joy”

Review: Charlotte Symphony Plays Beethoven’s Ninth  By Perry Tannenbaum May 20, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Even back in the early ‘90s, when Charlotte Symphony struggled to sustain respectable mediocrity, the valedictory concert led by Leo Driehuys in 1993 proved that the orchestra could always rise to the occasion when called upon to perform Beethoven’s thrilling Ninth Symphony. Having heard the…

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hello I'd like to make a formal complaint: why was Jeremy Jordan not invited to be a presenter at the Tonys this year

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LA PRIMERA SONNAMBULA DE DIANA DAMRAU (MET 15 d'abril de 2014).

LA PRIMERA SONNAMBULA DE DIANA DAMRAU (MET 15 d’abril de 2014).

Diana Damrau (Amina) a La Sonnambula del MET, producció de Mary Zimmerman. Fotografia MetropolitanOperaHouse

Sense gaire temps per deixar esvair de la gran sala del Metropolitan Opera House de Nova York els bravos dedicats a tot l’equip que va fer possible el  Wether encapçalat per Jonas Kaufmann i Sophie Koch, que nosaltres varem veure al cinema (avui tornarà a estar disponible a IFL), el mateix…

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Scaling Back on Brassy Pomp, OpCarolina Brings Us a More Classic and Elegant Aïda

Scaling Back on Brassy Pomp, OpCarolina Brings Us a More Classic and Elegant Aïda

Review: Opera Carolina Presents Aïda By Perry Tannenbaum April 7, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Premiered in Egypt in late 1871 and brought home to Milan less than two months later, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aïda has become synonymous with all that’s grandiose and spectacular in grand opera. Opera Carolina has now produced this signature work nine times since its founding in 1948, only once allowing more than a…

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Opera Carolina Finds New Balance in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Opera Carolina Finds New Balance in Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Review: Don Giovanni at Belk Theater  By Perry Tannenbaum February 3, 2022, Charlotte, NC – Among the lovable scoundrels of Western world literature, surely Don Juan has proven to be the most lovable – Molière, Goldoni, Lord Byron, Shaw, and Mozart are just a few of the notables who have sung the Spanish Don’s sins over the past 400 years. His tale can be seen as a series picaresque escapades…

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Charlotte Symphony’s Missa Solemnis Thrills With Power and Sublimity

Review:  Missa Solemnis By Perry Tannenbaum

Beethoven’s original intent, when he conceived his Missa Solemnis, was to honor one of his foremost patrons, Rudolf, the Archduke of Austria, who was to be installed as an archbishop on March 9, 1820, in what is now the Czech Republic. Unfortunately, Beethoven missed his self-imposed deadline, so we are not on the brink of celebrating the bicentennial…

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Stars of Opera Carolina’s Eugene Onegin Shine Brightest in Act 3 Showdown

Stars of Opera Carolina’s Eugene Onegin Shine Brightest in Act 3 Showdown

Review: Opera Carolina’s Eugene Onegin By Perry Tannenbaum

Opera Carolina subscribers have never been as fervid about Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as their Charlotte Ballet counterparts. On opening night of Opera Carolina’s Eugene Onegin, you could calculate the difference by gazing at the empty seats at Belk Theater. Artistic director James Meena, with a generous deployment of musicians from the…