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Yo-Yo Ma at the Kimmel (2nd review)
How an artist makes a difference
What force could nearly fill Verizon Hall to hear a cellist, even a great cellist, especially on a night when the Phillies were fighting for survival in the National League championship series?
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The Met's "Das Rheingold' in HD-Live (1st review)
Ready (at last) for your close-up, Herr Wagner
The Metropolitan Opera's recent HD-Live broadcast of Das Rheingold was a more successful realization of Wagner's dramatic and musical intentions than I could have ever believed possible. The overall result was gripping psychological drama in which Wagner's marvelous music operated subliminally beneath the action, just as Wagner intended.
Choral Arts Society's Salzburg Vespers
Mozart's Vespers, in their original setting
Matthew Glandorf embedded Mozart's Salzburg Vespers in the musical elements of an actual church service. In the process he offered a new look at an old favorite.
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Opera Company's "Otello' (3rd review)
Where's the terror?
The Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of Verdi's Otello was beautifully sung, staged and orchestrated. What it lacked was violence.
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Tempesta di Mare revisits Dresden
The glory that was Dresden, before the fire
Tempesta di Mare created a glimpse of an 18th-Century cultural center through music that has survived the defeats of the Seven Years' War and the bombings of the Second World War.
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Opera Company's "Otello' (2nd review)
Verdi vs. Shakespeare
The show went on without a serious hitch as the Opera Company of Philadelphia's Iago, Mark Delavan, sang from a wheelchair, serendipitously adding a new dimension to his otherwise invulnerable character. Verdi's Otello, unlike Shakespeare's Othello, is more archetype than flesh and blood; nonetheless he is an imposing figure in this, Verdi's finest opera.
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Dutoit conducts Grieg and Shostakovich
Strange bedfellows: Grieg and Shostakovich
Grieg and Shostakovich make strange bedfellows, but both the former's Piano Concerto and the latter's Fourth Symphony were well performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Andre Watts was the admirable soloist, and the Orchestra's departing music director Charles Dutoit seems intent on leaving his own legacy.
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Opera Company's "Otello' (1st review)
Otello's unsung heroine
If you see this very capable production of one of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire, I hope you will reflect, as I found myself doing at Sunday's matinee of Otello, on the unsung heroine of this particular tragedy.
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A composer's intentions (Krantz's "Trio')
What did the composer mean to say? And does it matter?
How much do we need to know when we listen to music that presents a portrait of a family? I posed that nagging question to Lynn Henson, who commissioned Allen Krantz's Trio after a Harrowing ordeal.
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Marina Sirtis with Orchestra 2001
She doesn't sing, but what an actress!
For its season opener, Orchestra 2001 delivered the kind of near miss that an innovative organization has to produce now and then. The main event of the evening was a performance by a guest star who didn't sing a note.
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