The Metropolitan Opera explores a touchstone moment in American history with the company’s debut of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which premiered in 1986, in a new production by Robert O’Hara. The opera, composed by Anthony Davis to a libretto by Thulani Davis, stars Will Liverman and Leah Hawkins. Performances run Nov. […]
As part of the Sonic Spectrum series at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, five instrumentalists will offer 21st-century works on Nov. 9, including world premieres by Todd Cochran and Libby Larsen. The program also features pieces by Reena Esmail and Saad Haddad and the New York premiere of Wang Jie’s Blame the Obituary, […]
Cutting-edge string quartet Brooklyn Rider teams up with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter to give the New York premieres of arrangements of two works by Rufus Wainwright (Trois valses anglaises and Three Songs for Lulu) plus a new arrangement by Osvaldo Golijov of selections from Schubert’s Winterreise. Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet anchors the […]
In its first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera on Nov. 16-Dec. 14, Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, based on the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, will enjoy a new production by Mary Zimmerman, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Soprano Ailyn Pérez stars, along with Gabriella Reyes, Greer Grimsley, and Mattia Olivieri. https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/florencia-en-el-amazonas/
The 19th-century Parisian composer Louise Farrenc has finally been gaining the reputation she deserves. On Nov. 19, in a program called Quintet Odyssey, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will play her Quintet in A minor, Op. 30. Alongside works by Dvořák, the CMS has programmed John Corigliano’s Soliloquy for clarinet and string quartet. […]
