Harvey Steiman

At Aspen, Fleming and Gilfry’s Broadway classics and Pacifica Quartet’s Haydn, Higdon and Dvořák

by

Aspen Music Festival [2]: (HS) 6.7.2022: A Benefit Evening of Broadway and Operetta: Renée Fleming (soprano), Rod Gilfry (baritone), Robert Spano (piano), Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, Colorado. Loewe – ‘Almost Like Being in Love’ (Brigadoon) Rodgers – ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ (South Pacific); ‘People Will Say We’re in Love’ (Oklahoma!); ‘Climb Every Mountain’ (The Sound of … Read more

Strong cast, striking visuals and beautiful finish lift San Francisco Opera’s Dream of the Red Chamber revival

by
Meigui Zhang plays the qin in Dream of the Red Chamber © Cory Weaver

United StatesUnited States Bright Sheng, Dream of the Red Chamber: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Darrell Ang (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 14.6.2022. (HS)

 

Read more

Salonen and Sellars effectively link Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with Symphony of Psalms

by

United StatesUnited States Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex, Symphony of Psalms: Soloists, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 11.6.2022. (HS)

(l-r) Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts, Sean Pannikar (Oedipus), Willard White (Creon), Lauren Jenkins and Breezy Leigh (Oedipus’s daughters) (c) Kristen Loken

Read more

Daniil Trifonov romps through Mason Bates’s Piano Concerto with gusto

by

United StatesUnited States Wennäkoski, Bates, Dvořák: Daniil Trifonov (piano), San Francisco Symphony / Ruth Reinhardt (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 2.6.2022. (HS)

(l-r) Wyatt Underhill (assistant concertmaster), Mason Bates (composer), Ruth Reinhardt (conductor) and Daniil Trifonov (pianist)

Read more