Zachary Woolfe
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Review: A Devastated Drone Pilot Opens the Met Opera’s Season
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s bloodless “Grounded,” about a fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator, stars the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.
Review: A Devastated Drone Pilot Opens the Met Opera’s Season
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s bloodless “Grounded,” about a fighter pilot turned dissociating drone operator, stars the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.
Michael Tilson Thomas Leads Mahler at the New York Phil
The conductor led the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, an inspiring opening night for a season starting off unsettled.
Review: This ‘Figaro’ Puts All Mozart’s Characters in One Voice
By singing men and women, nobles and servants, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo takes the opera’s theme of human mutability to a chaotic extreme.
A Pianist Who’s Not Afraid to Improvise on Mozart
Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of dazzling...
Review: ‘The Righteous’ Brings Stirring Prayer to Santa Fe Opera
Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new work about an ambitious minister’s rise in the 1980s is that rarity in contemporary music: an original story.
Lincoln Center’s Audiences Deserve Music Worthy of Them
When listeners were given the power to program an orchestral concert, the results were surprising.
This Soprano Sings ‘the Sound of the Soul’
Ermonela Jaho’s combination of consummate technique and utter commitment has earned her ovations, critical praise and the adoration of her colleagues.
A Lost Masterpiece of Opera Returns, Kind of
The Aix Festival is presenting a new version of “Samson,” a never-performed work by Rameau and Voltaire, two of France’s most important cultural figures.
The Composer Who Changed Opera With ‘a Beautiful Simplicity’
In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision.