Category: reviews
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Podcast Episode 02: “It’s about friggin’ time!” — Met Opera performs work composed by a woman
Happy New Year! Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second podcast, composer Milica Paranosic goes “on the scene” at Lincoln Center (at the…
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“Figaro Gets a Divorce” — new opera a triumph in Wales!
Composer Elena Langer has achieved a brilliant success as she “completes” the Figaro “trilogy” for Welsh National Opera. Complementing Mozart’s “Marriage” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” Langer’s “Figaro Gets a Divorce” brings us the beloved characters down the road form the “Marriage”s happy ending, in this opera “which is part comedy, part political thriller.” If you can…
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Featured Guest Blogger: Virginia Eskin reviews new book on Bauer Sisters
This article was reprinted in April 2020, by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with the provoking title “An American Scriabin?” Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is the renowned pianist, educator and radio journalist Virginia Eskin. A Boston and New Hampshire resident, Eskin is a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. She was the…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 8
Some top stories from over the weekend: We wrote about Judith Weir’s new song cycle last week, which premiered on Saturday. The Guardian and The Telegraph each have reviews of the work which was decidedly well received. You can also read a review of a new album of Weir’s choral music, titled Storm. The Dallas Opera’s…