Matthew Gurewitsch
Making Waves
Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek adapt Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, awarded the 1996 Golden Palm in Cannes, for Opera Philadelphia
Opera Pick of the Week
Live from Florence, pianist Hershey Felder’s musical ode to Puccini
Opera Pick of the Week
A new performance of von Weber’s Freischütz by Dmitri Tcherniakov, streaming from the Bavarian State Opera in Munich
Opera Pick of the Week
Productions of the Holocaust-era Der Kaiser von Atlantis spanning both sides of the Atlantic, from the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and the Atlanta Opera
Opera Pick of the Week
The Met Opera honors Dmitri Hvorostovsky with seven nights of streamed performances, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, with Renée Fleming
Opera Pick of the Week
A new presentation of David T. Little’s Soldier Songs, starring baritone Johnathan McCullough and available for streaming by the Opera Philadelphia
Island in the Stream
Rapa Nui native Mahani Teave learned to play the piano on her island’s only instrument. Here, an interview with the classical pianist
Opera Pick of the Week
The Metropolitan Opera’s 1983 production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, starring Jessye Norman as Cassandra
Opera Pick of the Week
De Mondonville’s Titon et l’Aurore, by William Christie, Basil Twist, and Paris’s Opéra Comique …
Do the Twist
More than 20 years after the puppeteer Basil Twist debuted his genre-defying response to Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique,” a film version is available for streaming
Heart On His Sleeve
Following a new Otello that streamed to thousands, the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s Alexander Pereira on directing opera mid-pandemic
Good Pluck
The Israeli mandolinist Avi Avital is gaining world recognition for his delightful mastering of the string instrument
In Love and Song
In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the lives of Jan Kiepura and Marta Eggerth, husband-and-wife stars of opera and operetta on both sides of the Atlantic
A Symphony For Our Time
Conceived by the conductor Marin Alsop with the imprimatur of Carnegie Hall, “Global Ode to Joy” collects clips by concert royalty around the world
Come Together
In lieu of an American tour, 21-year-old cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason records Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals at Abbey Road alongside his musical siblings
Goldberg Inversions
And now, for the next act from Dan Tepfer, jazz pianist and most genial of polymaths: a digitally enabled rendition of J.S. Bach’s epochal Goldberg Variations
The Soul of Wit
“Table Top Shakespeare,” comprising brief adaptations of the bard’s works, launches an At Home edition
Bach of Ages
An interview with Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who is releasing two new recordings of Bach’s formidable Goldberg Variations
Hidden Tunes
“Whatever story I’m telling, I tell it through music.” An interview with Bruce Adolphe, the mind behind the wildly popular Piano Puzzlers
All the World’s a Stage
Met favorites get star treatment in the New York opera house’s new series
