Matthew Gurewitsch
Glimpses of Sara & Co.
Priceless clips on the New York City Ballet Web site
Renée Fleming Ponders the Big Picture
In Aspen, America’s No. 1 diva gives Così Fan Tutte a considered makeover
Up Close and Personal
Heartbeat Opera posts its acclaimed Salome on YouTube
White Knight In the Trauma Center
From Paris, Kirill Serebrennikov’s off-the-rails Lohengrin
Go Right Ahead—Compare Me To A Summer’s Day
Dozens of eloquent voices are heard in Shakespeare’s incomparable sonnets
A Ziegfeld Girl Recalls the Forgotten War
After Cosette, Eliza Doolittle, and Sondheim’s Dot, Melissa Errico channels her great aunt Rose
The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music
A summer-long Western road trip for Hunter Noack and his nine-foot Steinway grand, vintage 1912
Clarion Top Notes, Plus His Head on a Cake Stand
Elza van den Heever, the Met’s new Salome, delivers the whole package
Nazi Loot In Limbo
Jake Heggie’s chamber opera Before It All Goes Dark
Mad About the Boy
In the Old Vic’s Present Laughter, Andrew Scott flips the script, sort of
Of Alps and an Apple
From La Scala, Riccardo Muti’s landmark revival of Rossini’s monumental farewell to opera
Carmen Goes to the Movies
On film, Grace Bumbry’s exhilarating debut in an iconic signature role
Sounds Like Heaven
Keyboard superstars Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson make beautiful music together
A Musical Paint Box
For the composer Anna Clyne, putting notes on paper and paint on canvas is part of a single creative process
Chekhov In Flashes
From London, Andrew Scott’s Off Broadway-bound Vanya
Heart of Darkness
In Brussels, Fanny and Alexander gets an operatic makeover
A Fairly Mixed-Up Young Man
In 2015 (ages before Rivals!), Alex Hassell grabbed the brass ring as Shakespeare’s Henry V
A Champion for Clara
Alexandra Dariescu makes a specialty of the other Schumann piano concerto
All in the Family
Not much is as it seems in Ingmar Bergman’s late, great, very spooky Yuletide bonbon Fanny and Alexander
Rare Bird, Bass Division
Peixin Chen’s amazing journey from Inner Mongolia to the great lyric stages of the West
Hamlet in Lockdown
How Sir Ian McKellen spent (part of) his pandemic
Flameout
At the Paris Opera, a Handmaid’s Tale makeover for Spontini’s Napoleonic La Vestale
Like to a Lonely Dragon
A shattering Coriolanus from Tom Hiddleston, ten years on
The Ives Conundrum
Celebrating 150 years of Charles Ives, the masterful American composer we’re still quick to dismiss as a crank
