Month: January 2022

The Concertgebouworkest devotes the whole of this coming weekend to Made in America – music written by Americans or composed in the United States. The three concerts of the Made in America weekend are conducted by Susanna Mälkki, Stéphane Denève and Klaus Mäkelä respectively, with soloists Leila Josefowicz on Saturday evening, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor on…

Love, infidelity and comedic drama are in the air in Gioachino Rossini’s Il turco in Italia, to be staged by Monte-Carlo Opera this month. This drama buffo per musica, set to a libretto by Felice Romani, stars Monte-Carlo Opera’s director designate, Cecilia Bartoli as the flirtatious young Neapolitan, Fiorilla, with Adrian Sâmpetrean as Selim, the…

There’s a meeting of good friends at Davies Symphony Hall this month as the San Francisco Symphony welcomes Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas back to the podium, together with two hugely popular guest artists – cellist Gautier Capuçon and pianist Yuja Wang. In the first program, MTT leads the Symphony in performances of the…

This week, English National Ballet stages a new version of Marius Petipa’s classic ballet, Raymonda – an interpretation created for the Company by Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo in her first production as director and choreographer. Set to Alexander Glazunov’s original score, English National Ballet’s Raymonda is set against the background of the Crimean War and…