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Classical Music Reviews Archive

April 5, 1999
Toy Stories

City Opera's pairing of Ravel's whimsical operas "L'Heure Espagnole" and "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is Sendak-inspired silliness.

November 4, 2002
Technical Difficulties

Video-opera Three Tales warns of the perils of technology -- but might do well to heed its own lesson; András Schiff would make Bach proud; a young Russian tenor flunks Bizet.

May 1, 2000
Toad You So

For City Opera, Mark Morris takes Rameau's delectable, very un-p.c. farce "Platée" even further out of bounds, reconceiving the heroine as a chick with flippers.

October 4, 2004
Superconductor

Where have you gone, Leonard Bernstein? The composer’s current comeback is a reminder of his legacy as a master proselytizer.

October 6, 2003
That Phily Sound

Maestro Maazel shows he’s got his Philharmonic working in near-perfect harmony; Donizetti surely doesn’t deserve the City Opera’s new Lucia.

February 1, 1999
Fascinating Rhythms

Another concert in the unfolding celebration of George Gershwin's music finds parallels in the works of Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Maurice Ravel.

November 8, 1999
Go to Hell

A Danish company's take on the Orpheus legend is so much smoke and shimmers

February 22, 1999
New York Collegium
August 4, 2003
Kirovian Slip

Scenic mishaps almost overshadow the lyrical action in the Kirov’s Kitezh; The Demon returns; a masterful Eugene Onegin.

May 14, 2001
In Brief
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