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Classical Music Reviews Archive

November 19, 2007
After the Disappearing Act

Barber’s Vanessa isn’t the forgotten marvel they say it is—but it’s a great vehicle for City Opera’s star soprano.

November 5, 2007
Fair Is Foul, and Foul Is Fair

Verdi’s Macbeth returns to the Met, in awkward, stagy fashion.

October 22, 2007
Vital Organist

Paul Jacobs can shake the rafters—and your soul.

October 15, 2007
Orchestrating Change

The New York Philharmonic is as reliable and consistent as a metronome—and about as dull.

October 8, 2007
Pretty Bloody Good

Natalie Dessay is a fabulous, if not exactly subtle, Lucia.

September 24, 2007
Not So Beloved

Margaret Garner, the opera by Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison, fails its powerful material.

May 21, 2007
LustMusik

Bill Viola’s much-anticipated reinterpretation of Tristan und Isolde’s sexual angst is oddly neuter.

March 26, 2007
The Battle of Britain

George Bernard Shaw thought little of Gilbert and Sullivan. Would an evening at Lincoln Center have changed his mind?

February 26, 2007
Lights! Camera! Opera!

Never mind the high-definition hype: The Met’s Eugene Onegin is beautiful (if still austere) on the big screen.

January 8, 2007
Cold Fusion

Tan Dun’s shtick—using Chinese musical gestures in Western opera—leaves both genres worse for wear.

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