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Operatic Sounds of Silence
Whoever said that silence is golden probably did not have opera in mind. In this art form all kinds of sounds are prized, whether from the orchestra, chorus or soloists singing alone or with colleagues...
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Eight Composers Who Beat the Summer Heat
The first seven months of this year have been the hottest on record in the northeastern United States, researchers at Cornell University said on Tuesday. Other parts of the US have been suffering from...
View ArticleThe Salzburg Festival's Helga Rabl-Stadler
The Salzburg Festival in Austria is one of the premiere opera and classical music festivals. It spans 35 days, with 200,000 people attending 69 concerts, 38 opera performances and 135 plays.For the...
View ArticleYearning to Breathe Free: How Opera Speaks to Our Deepest Selves
You can imagine, because you know of my love for opera, how often I am asked to explain what makes a particular work great. Moreover, I am asked very frequently what it is that makes opera itself so...
View ArticleHow to Make an Opera Aria Sing on the Piano
On this edition of Reflections from the Keyboard, David Dubal digs deeper to unpack several more operatic transcriptions for the piano.Some pianists know a good opera when they hear it and jump on the...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Incredibly Dramatic Final Works By Composers
Not all composers benefit from having their last works be masterworks. But a number have been able to create profound and lasting artistic statements in the final pieces they wrote before they died, a...
View ArticleProud Tower, Part II
The second part of host Bill McGlaughlin look at the music during the 25 years leading up to World War I.
View ArticleReview: Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Hall
When baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky returned to the Metropolitan Opera for autumn performances of Il Trovatore following a summer of brain tumor treatments, general manager Peter Gelb expressed perfect...
View ArticleGilbert Conducts Salonen and Strauss
Thursday at 9 pm, listen to music director Alan Gilbert lead the New York Philharmonic in a pair of works written nearly a century apart. First, you'll hear Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Varations, which he...
View ArticleHoneck and Wang Perform Beethoven, Strauss and Suppé
Tune in Thursday at 9 pm, to hear Manfred Honeck, the Austrian-born music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, lead the New York Philharmonic in an evening of music by Austrian and German...
View ArticleReview: Richard Strauss' 'Der Rosenkavalier' at The Met Opera
So personal is the relationship between Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier and its admirers that the arrival of a new production at the Metropolitan Opera is like having your living room redecorated....
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Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier from the Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Program notes courtesy of WFMT.Richard Strauss’s bittersweet comic opera Der Rosenkavalier marked the start of one of the great artistic partnerships between the composer and the playwright Hugo von...
View ArticleEncore: Danbi Um and Orion Weiss
This broadcast originally aired on November 28th, 2018.Tonight on the Young Artists Showcase features an encore broadcast of a 2018 studio visit from violinist Danbi Um and pianist Orion Weiss. As a...
View ArticleVienna Philharmonic
Listen live on Friday, March 3rd at 8pmProgram notes courtesy of Carnegie Hall.The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic opens its three-concert residency with a program of Schoenberg and R. Strauss. The...
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Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
Listen Saturday, April 15th at 12:00pm.Program notes courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.Click here for the upcoming Metropolitan Opera broadcast schedule.A sterling cast assembles for Strauss’s grand...
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