The baritone created something special out of a shopworn production.
Lou Harrison’s Varied Trio was only on the program in commemoration of the composer’s anniversary. But the audience loved it.
Strauss’s complex, modern opera is lifted by strong performances on stage and in the pit.
Philip Glass’s beautiful dance-opera adaptation of a thorny Jean Cocteau theme gets the first-rate production and performance it deserves.
Catherine Cook and the Music of Remembrance Ensemble deliver powerful music inspired by Holocaust horrors.
The Sitkovetsky Trio and David Shifrin deliver an emotionally complex, vibrant program.
In one of her final concerts with the ensemble, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg leads a program of NCCO-commissioned works, including a standout composition by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
The soprano offers a rare bouquet, delivered with splendid technique and expressiveness.
It’s not easy to produce a good performance of Stockhausen’s tricky, modernist masterpiece, but credit to Voices of Silicon Valley for trying.
Japanese chamber opera informs the composer’s multimedia A Line Becomes a Circle
