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Costello, Pérez: Impossible love?

Can real-life opera marriages survive?

Is that your heart or your ego? Or: Operatic marriages, pro and con

The trials of Verdi's Violetta or Puccini's Tosca are child's play next to the challenge of holding an operatic marriage together. Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, currently appearing in Roméo et Juliette, are the latest to try. Wish them well.

Diana Burgwyn

Articles 6 minute read
I was about to give up on Babbitt (above), when it all came together.

How I learned to love Milton Babbitt

Milton Babbitt's ultimate message: Stop trying to hold on

Audiences didn't understand Milton Babbitt's music. For a long time, I didn't, either. But as he would say, who understands particle physics? For that matter, who understands James Joyce?
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 4 minute read
Menotti (center) with Eugene Ormandy and Efrem Zimbalist at Curtis, 1952: Is popularity a crime?

Menotti Centenary concert at Curtis

Will the real Menotti please stand up?

The late composer Gian-Carlo Menotti was so prolific, gregarious and commercial that serious music critics often dismissed his work. But the “best of Menotti” excerpts assembled for his Centenary concert sounded better than the original operas. What he needed, apparently, was a good curator.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
Beckmann: A much-abused instrument.

Vox Amadeus: all-Vivaldi concert

Hold the entrée, bring on the hors d'oeuvres

The Four Seasons is a nice piece, but I've heard it too often recently. Vivaldi's enormous output includes dozens of entries that are just as inventive and charming.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Pantano: Pleasant surprise.

Concert Operetta's "Remembering Romberg' (2nd review)

Why Sigmund Romberg succeeded (and why he's been forgotten)

Some critics find Sigmund Romberg's exotic operettas schmaltzy and outdated. I disagree, and the recent production of Romberg highlights by the Concert Operetta Theater reinforced my feeling.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Rottsolk: Ideal choice.

Tempesta di Mare's Roman holiday

Rome, with a touch of Casablanca

Tempesta di Mare recreates the musical pleasures of Baroque Roman drawing rooms in a promising new venue: the Arch Street Meeting House.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Fernandez: The words matter.

Concert Operetta's "Remembering Romberg' (1st review)

When Sigmund stood his ground

Concert Operetta's recent Sigmund Romberg program provided an enjoyable afternoon, with two caveats. Even a hopeless Romberg addict like me learned a few things I never knew before.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Richards: Saved by his music.

"Life,' by Keith Richards

Music trumps heroin: Memoirs of a disciplined dope addict

The Rolling Stones' infamous guitarist/songwriter Keith Richards may have been a junkie, but I've never been so completely taken by a person through his writing.
Bob Ingram

Bob Ingram

Articles 6 minute read
What? They omitted Stockhausen?

The "Times' picks the top classical composers

Of Top Ten composers lists (and two the Times overlooked)

The New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini spent the past month compiling his list of the greatest classical composers, with suggestions he drummed up from hundreds of Times readers. BSR's critic Dan Coren disdains such gimmickry, of course. Except”¦
Dan Coren

Dan Coren

Articles 6 minute read
Yang: Tapped by Domingo.

Dolce Suono's new collaborators

New discoveries: An organist and a soprano

Dolce Suono Ensemble collaborates with an organist who understands the difference between art and megalomania, and a young soprano selected by a colleague with impeccable credentials.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read