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Keenlyside: If Jude Law could sing...

Thomas's "Hamlet' at the Met

A happier Hamlet

Hamlet, the seldom-performed opera by the 19th-Century French composer Ambrose Thomas, departs significantly from Shakespeare. Yet it works as a drama.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Tilson Thomas: An outsider, like Mahler and Bernstein.

Lessons from Tilson Thomas (2nd review)

‘Are you glad you came?â€(And other questions raised by Michael Tilson Thomas)

The recent orchestral triumphs of Vladimir Jurowski and Michael Tilson Thomas offer further proof that orchestral excellence by itself doesn't suffice; audiences yearn as well for a conductor with personality.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
Tilson Thomas: Conducting the audience, too.

San Francisco Symphony plays Mahler's Second (1st review)

Gustav in his glory

Michael Tilson Thomas, visiting Philadelphia for the first time in six years with his San Francisco Symphony, performed a Mahler Second Symphony thoughtfully conceived and transparently executed. With Mahler, attention to pacing and detail is what pays off. It did here, in one of the season's most satisfying performances.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read
So reserved that he's almost introverted.

Jurowski conducts the Orchestra (3rd review)

Cellos on the left (and what they tell us about Jurowski)

Vladimir Jurowski's intensity made three of the most popular works in the repertoire sound fresh and immediate. His seating arrangements may seem like a minor matter, but they tell us something important about his attitude toward his craft.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
And you thought Dostoevsky was dead.

Jurowski conducts the Orchestra (2nd review)

The Jurowski solution: Three parts mad ascetic, one part voluptuary

Vladimir Jurowski is a figure right out of the pages of Dostoevsky. What if he were leading the Philadelphia Orchestra regularly, instead of just once a year? The patrons would be lined up at the Kimmel's doors.

Michael Woods

Articles 3 minute read
Bilger: A street band outing.

Chamber Ensemble's instrument mix

Mozart meets the roaring '20s

The Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble specializes in pieces that employ an unusual mix of instruments, but its musicians outdid themselves at their latest concert, with music that ranges from Mozart to ballets for dancing mummies and tangoing kitchenware.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Urmana, Abdrazakov: 'Leave Italy for me!'

Muti conducts Verdi's "Attila' at the Met

Muti to the rescue

Riccardo Muti is pumping new excitement into Attila, one of Verdi's weakest operas— which, like Muti himself, hasn't previously appeared at the Met.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
Sanders, Cedel: Let the bed do the acting. (Photo: Lenoe Doxsee.)

Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra' by Curtis

Barber's Edsel bounces back

The Curtis Opera has revived the Edsel of American operas, Samuel Barber's ill-fated Antony and Cleopatra. It's a welcome opportunity to reconsider a work that, despite abiding flaws, has too much musical value to ignore.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 7 minute read
Jurowski: Playing it safe, and then...

Jurowski ignites the Orchestra (1st review)

The answer to the Orchestra's problems?

Maestro Vladimir Jurowski attracted a full house to the Philadelphia Orchestra and generated wild enthusiasm by the end. This charismatic young conductor could hold the key to the struggling Orchestra's future.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
Paulo Szot as Kovalyov: A dangerously liberated appendage.

Shostakovich's "The Nose' at the Met

What The Nose knows (and William Kentridge doesn't)

After 80 years, Dmitri Shostakovich's early satirical opera, The Nose, is at last getting its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. The cast and orchestra perform with élan, but William Kentridge's overbearing production threatens to hijack the proceedings.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read