Review: A Met Opera-Bound ‘Semele’ Takes Its First Bows Posted by By Joshua Barone July 16, 2023Posted inBavarian State Opera, D'Angelo, Emily (Singer), Guth, Claus, Handel, George Frederick, Metropolitan Opera, Music, Opera, Rae, Brenda, Semele (Opera), Sly, Philippe, Spyres, Michael Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.
Review: The New York Philharmonic’s ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement Posted by By Joshua Barone March 24, 2023Posted inAppleby, Paul, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Classical Music, Mumford, Tamara, Music, Musica Sacra, New York Philharmonic, Sly, Philippe, St Matthew Passion (Musical Work), Tines, Davone, van Zweden, Jaap Jaap van Zweden is not known for Bach. But the “St. Matthew Passion” made for one of his finest New York Philharmonic concerts this season.
Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm Posted by By Joshua Barone April 8, 2022Posted inBach, Johann Sebastian, Blue, Joshua, Brook, Matthew, Classical Music, Cutting, Hugh, Handel and Haydn Society, La Chapelle de Quebec, Labadie, Bernard, Music, Orchestra of St Luke's, Pregardien, Julian, Sampson, Carolyn, Sly, Philippe, St Matthew Passion (Musical Work), St Thomas Choir of Men and Boys (Manhattan, NY) Bernard Labadie led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and three choirs, in Bach’s sprawling, meditative masterpiece.