Classical Voice North America
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Classical Voice North America is the web journal of the Music Critics Association of North America. Its purpose is to provide expert reviews, commentary, and reportage by professional music journalists from across the continent and to cover national trends from a regional perspective. Stay tuned to get the latest updates.
Classical Voice North America
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DIGITAL REVIEW – Slow Beethoven is a recording project – a sonic journey, a composition, an exploration of reverberation – that transforms the opening fugue of his String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, in a new, elongated perspective.
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Classical Voice North America
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MUNICH – The production at the Bayerische Staatsoper was so brilliantly conceived and integrated that it felt as if themes intrinsic to the opera had lain dormant for well over a century, awaiting the right genius to bring them forward.
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Classical Voice North America
6d ago
NEW YORK – Soprano Erin Morley and tenor Lawrence Brownlee star in this modern-dress take on The Magic Flute. While it unfolds with the usual mix of parts that are wonderful and others that are not, it's also an ostensible and justifiable hit.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
MINNEAPOLIS – The new work, brea(d)th, by composer Carlos Simon (shown) and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph will have its premiere performances May 18-20 by the commissioning Minnesota Orchestra with chorus and speaker.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
CHICAGO – Transfigure to Grace, Jessie Montgomery's fully orchestrated reworking of her 2019 ballet Passage, received its world premiere by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where she is composer in residence.
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Classical Voice North America
1w ago
NEW YORK – After a 55-year absence, the Finnish orchestra offered a program under Mälkki, its authoritative chief conductor, that included the Sibelius tone poem Lemminkäinen's Return, his Second Symphony, and music by Kaija Saariaho.
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Classical Voice North America
2w ago
STONINGTON, Conn. – A cembalo known as “the Red Cristofori” (shown), built by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the 1720s, was the model for a new instrument built in 2020 by historic specialist Kerstin Schwarz. Its debut here was impressive.
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Classical Voice North America
2w ago
ATLANTA – Taking a bold step toward a potential complete presentation of Wagner's Ring cycle, Atlanta Opera unveiled a magnificent Rheingold, sung by a cast of superb Wagnerians. As for the other operas, only Die Walküre is slated, in 2024.
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Classical Voice North America
2w ago
NEW YORK – Crime and punishment permeate Ivo van Hove's new production, with excellent singing, detailed direction, and a visually stimulating update that made this unrelentingly sober version the best Don Giovanni at the Met in decades.
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Classical Voice North America
2w ago
NEW YORK – Ted Sperling led his MasterVoices and a number of Broadway luminaries in a satisfying performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1882 comedy. Though the audience was disappointingly small, the response was positive.
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