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Metropolitan Opera: Immortal Immortalized

Playbill Arts Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:34 AM PSTPlácido Domingo celebrates his 40th Met anniversary this season, with a return to his debut role in Adriana Lecouvreur , plans for the future— and a striking new portrait by Julian Schnabel.
La Damnation de Faust will be broadcast at UCA

Maumelle Monitor Tue, 25 Nov 2008 0:30 AM PSTCONWAY — The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of “La Damnation de Faust” will be broadcast in high definition at noon on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the University of Central Arkansas’s Reynolds Performance Hall.
On-Screen Opera: An Art Form Unchanged

Arts Journal Mon, 24 Nov 2008 8:28 PM PST"Two years ago, Douglas McLennan wrote in the Los Angeles Times that, by broadcasting operas live to cinema screens in high definition video, the New York Metropolitan Opera had created a new art form," Karen Fricker writes, begging to differ.
The Met Opera live in high definition

Clarkson Integrator Mon, 24 Nov 2008 3:05 PM PSTOn Saturday, November 22, the opera La Damnation De Faust (The Damnation of Faust) was broadcasted live from The Metropolitan Opera, and shown on the big screen at the local Roxy Theater. La Damnation De Faust begins with Faust (Marcello Giordani) an old man who is depressed and has trouble understanding the happiness and joy in life.
Tenor Giordani Takes To The Stage Twice In 24 Hours

ContactMusic Mon, 24 Nov 2008 9:26 AM PSTItalian tenor MARCELLO GIORDANI has completed a rare feat in the history of New York's Metropolitan Opera - by performing the leads in two separate shows in one day. ...

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From Manuscript’s Curlicues, a Tuning Scheme
By ALLAN KOZINN
The harpsichordist Richard Egarr’s performance of Book I at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday evening addressed what Bach meant by well tempered.
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Proudly Strutting, Defying Hostile Universe
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Chita Rivera, 75, is the most commanding physical presence ever to grace the tiny platform stage of Feinstein’s.

Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.

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Music Review

A Brisk Prokofiev Comedy, Without Opera Heroics
By Steve Smith
A concert performance by the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday was a reminder that Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges” is endlessly inventive.
Music Review
A Wide-Ranging Evening With Cymbals and Dog Whistles
By STEVE SMITH
During a return engagement on Friday night Jeffrey Milarsky authoritatively conducted the American Composers Orchestra in five disparate works, including three commissioned premieres.
Music Review

Violin Duo Celebrating Milestone, Helped by Friends and Disciples
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center hosted a concert in honor of the violinist sisters Ani and Ida Kavafian, who made their Carnegie Hall debut as a duo 25 years ago.
Music Review

A Dark and Ghostly Work, Bereft of High Spirits
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The violinist Vadim Repin played Prokofiev’s spooky violin scales at the end of the first movement in his Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor with eerie, barely audible pianissimos during a performance with the pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
Music Review Garrick Ohlsson

Pianist Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impressionist
By ALLAN KOZINN
The pianist Garrick Ohlsson brought fingers, fortitude and a freewheeling imagination to his all-Scriabin recital on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.

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City Opera Seeks Help From Turnaround King
New York Times Wed, 12 Nov 2008 9:53 PM PSTFollowing the resignation of Gerard Mortier as New York City Opera?s artistic director and general manager, Michael Kaiser, the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, will assist in the company?s search for a replacement.
Kaiser to help NYC Opera following Mortier debacleAP via Yahoo! News Wed, 12 Nov 2008 5:32 PM PSTKennedy Center head Michael Kaiser will assist the New York City Opera in finding a new leader and scheduling a 2009-10 season following the departure of Gerard Mortier.
Kennedy Chief Comes to an Opera's Rescue
Washington Post Thu, 13 Nov 2008 1:56 AM PSTMichael M. Kaiser, the president of the Kennedy Center, has developed a reputation for saving performing arts organizations that are at the brink of disaster. Now he's adding a new leaf to his portfolio. In a letter to patrons, New York City Opera's chairwoman, Susan L. Baker, has announced that...
Michael Kaiser To The Rescue Once Again
Arts Journal Wed, 12 Nov 2008 9:12 PM PSTFaced with money troubles, a nearly dark season and the departure of artistic director-designate Gérard Mortier, New York City Opera is turning for help to "the performing arts world's Mr. Fix-It," Kennedy Center CEO Michael Kaiser, who has famously presided over turnarounds at Covent Garden and American Ballet Theater and helped steady Miami's teetering Adrienne Arsht Center.
Lee Rosenbaum's cultural commentary
Arts Journal Wed, 12 Nov 2008 2:12 PM PSTThe New York City Opera, urgently needing stop the press-fed rumors that it might cease to exist after the sudden departure of Gerard Mortier , must have rushed right out to the bookstore to pick up Michael Kaiser 's new book on "The Art of the Turnaround," after reading about it yesterday in the NY Times . (Just kidding about the last part.)
Kaiser to help NYC Opera following Mortier debacle
The Myrtle Beach Sun News Wed, 12 Nov 2008 5:49 PM PSTKennedy Center head Michael Kaiser will assist the New York City Opera in finding a new leader and scheduling a 2009-10 season following the departure of Gerard Mortier. Mortier, hired in February 2007 as general manager and artistic director starting in 2009-10, quit Friday because the company didn't have enough money to finance his plans. In a memo to City Opera staff, first reported by ...

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New York City Opera Releases Statement About Mortier Departure; Future Plans
Playbill Arts Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:01 AM PSTFollowing the news of Gerard Mortier's departure as General Manager-Designate, New York City Opera has issued a statement addressing the situation as well as the current and upcoming season.

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Music Review Kirov Orchestra of the Maryinsky Theater

Velvet Passion for Prokofiev in a Deftly Paced ‘Romeo’
By ALLAN KOZINN
Prokofiev, like Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, is in these musicians’ fingers and souls, and their performance of “Romeo and Juliet” could hardly have been more passionate or vividly characterized.
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Piano Works by Those Who Escaped the Nazis
By ALLAN KOZINN
The series, “Music in Exile: Émigré Composers of the 1930s,” which opened on Sunday, focuses mostly on composers who escaped to Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States during the Nazi era.

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Music Review 'La Damnation de Faust'

Between Hell and Heaven, a World of Morphing Imagery
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The video wizardry on stage should not obscure the big news of the Metropolitan Opera’s “La Damnation de Faust”: the magnificent performances of the opera and chorus.

Audio Slide Show: Faust at the Metropolitan Opera

Alas, Poor City Opera: Without Galvanizing Director-to-Be, What Next?
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
With the departure of its director, Gerard Mortier, and finances in turmoil, the New York City Opera has scrapped Mr. Mortier’s production plans and begun the search for a new leader.

Thomas Dunn, an Early-Music Conductor, Is Dead at 82
By MARGALIT FOX
Mr. Dunn was a prominent conductor whose work helped animate the early music revival that took place in the mid-20th century and afterward.
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The Weill (Almost) Nobody Knows
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
As champions of Kurt Weill always point out, there is more to his catalog than “The Threepenny Opera.” Two new projects will bring some of his lesser-known productions to the stage.

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Music Review 'Arjuna's Dilemma'

Warrior Prince From India Wrestles With Destiny
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
“Arjuna’s Dilemma,” an opera based on the Bhagavad-Gita and presented at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, has an appealing and unabashedly eclectic score.
Music Review Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach

The Flame of Beethoven, Calibrated
By STEVE SMITH
Lang Lang and Christoph Eschenbach returned to Beethoven’s First Concerto with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday night.
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Essay in D: The Critic’s Cogitation About Titles
By ALLAN KOZINN
Perhaps the notion of giving a work a title makes composers feel awkward.

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Music Review

Soprano, Bottle Caps and Stick
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
A wide range of exotic instruments are regularly heard at Zankel Hall, but the soprano Dawn Upshaw’s concert on Sunday was unusual in that two of the composers had designed their own instruments.

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Music Review Marc-André Hamelin
Pianistic Feats, From Takeoff to Landing
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
During Marc-André Hamelin’s recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, his upper body barely moved while his hands hurtled across the keys with jaw-dropping speed.
Music Review New York Philharmonic

An Active Imagination After Nearly 100 Years
By STEVE SMITH
The New York Philharmonic, conducted by David Robertson, performed works by Elliott Carter, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Christopher Rouse at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday.

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Beethoven Sonatas, With Fire and Finesse
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
On Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall, Andras Schiff played with an uncanny combination of elegance and intensity.
Music Review Jay-Z and Lil Wayne

Music in Review
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER, ALLAN KOZINN and JAMES R. OESTREICH
Reviews of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Trinity Choir.

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Pairing Mahler and Zwilich and Their Fifth Symphonies
By STEVE SMITH
On Monday at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard Orchestra introduced Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s new Symphony No. 5.

Bracing for Bad Days, Operas and Orchestras Batten Down Hatches
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
As it has everywhere else these days, the economic crisis has hit classical music, a particularly fragile corner of the nonprofit world that depends as much on donations as on ticket sales.

Philharmonic Offers Taste of Next Season’s Banquet

By DANIEL J. WAKIN
A gala concert announcement on Monday sends an immediate signal that Alan Gilbert hopes to impose his own stamp on the New York Philharmonic, including a greater focus on contemporary music.
Music Review Maurizio Pollini

Attacking the Piano With His Forcefulness, as Usual
By ALLAN KOZINN
Both fans and detractors of the pianist Maurizio Pollini agree that his playing is powerful and precise, driven by a probing intellect and executed with steely, virtually infallible fingers.
Music Review

Intergenerational Harmony at Tucker Gala
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
As always, emerging singers shared the stage with established stars at the annual Richard Tucker Music Foundation gala concert on Sunday.

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City Opera Fur loughs Some Staff
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The financially troubled New York City Opera furloughed employees for two days last week because feared it would run out of money to pay them, a spokesman said Wednesday.

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City Opera Furloughs Some Staff
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The financially troubled New York City Opera furloughed employees for two days last week because it feared it would run out of money to pay them, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Music Review

Improvisation and Encores in a Search for Don Quixote
By JAMES R. OESTREICH
The encore the Spanish viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI appended to their splendid concert at the Rose Theater on Monday was a gift to old hands as well as to novices.

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Music Review
Daring to Be Audacious at Carnegie
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

G. Paul Burnett/The New York TimesJames Levine conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Monday night.
On Monday night James Levine took the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Carnegie Hall for the first time this season and made some news.

Summoning the Songs of Voices Stilled
By STEVE SMITH
Isabel Bayrakdarian and Serouj Kradjian’s program at Zankel Hall was meant to commemorate victims of the massacre of Armenians in Turkey starting in 1915, and of all genocides.
Music Review

A Giddy Whirl and a Vulnerable Heart
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Even after repeated viewings, the Act II Spanish soirée in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s “Traviata” at the Metropolitan Opera doesn’t fail to startle.



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Music Review
Daring to Be Audacious at Carnegie
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

G. Paul Burnett/The New York TimesJames Levine conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Monday night.
On Monday night James Levine took the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Carnegie Hall for the first time this season and made some news.

Summoning the Songs of Voices Stilled
By STEVE SMITH
Isabel Bayrakdarian and Serouj Kradjian’s program at Zankel Hall was meant to commemorate victims of the massacre of Armenians in Turkey starting in 1915, and of all genocides.
Music Review

A Giddy Whirl and a Vulnerable Heart
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Even after repeated viewings, the Act II Spanish soirée in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s “Traviata” at the Metropolitan Opera doesn’t fail to startle.

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