On Sight Opera’s Extraordinary Gift of Amahl and the Night Visitors

United StatesUnited States Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors: Soloists, Formerly Homeless Members of the Community in Partnership with Breaking Ground, On Site Opera Orchestra / Geoffrey McDonald (conductor), The Church of the Holy Apostles, New York, 7.12.2018. (RP)

Amahl (Luciano Pantano) and his mother (Aundi Marie Moore) © Pavel Antonov
Amahl (Luciano Pantano) and his mother (Aundi Marie Moore) © Pavel Antonov

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Julia Wolfe’s Powerful Reflection on Those Who Labored and Died in Coal Mines

United StatesUnited States Julia Wolfe, Anthracite Fields: Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street / Julian Wachner (conductor), Jeff Sugg (Scenography and Projection Design), Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, New York, 1.12.2018. (RP)

Anthracite Fields (Phoebe Snow on the train to Buffalo)
© Richard Termine

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100 for 100 – Commemorating the Centenaries of Polish Independence and Armistice Day

United StatesUnited States Górecki, Szymanowski, Vaughan Williams: Susanna Philips (soprano), Ewa Płonka (mezzo-soprano), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), Chorus and Orchestra of The Oratorio Society of New York / Kent Tritle (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 11.11.2018. (RP)

Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of The Oratorio Society of New York
© Mark Forman Productions, Corp.

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Fairy-Tale Magic in Pittsburgh Opera’s Hansel and Gretel

United StatesUnited States Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Members of the Pittsburgh Youth Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of the Pittsburgh Opera / Anthony Walker (conductor), Benedum Center, Pittsburgh, 6.11.2018. (RP)

 The Witch (Marianne Cornett) has Hansel (Corrie Stallings) and Gretel (Ashley Fabian) in her clutches © David Bachman Photography
The Witch (Marianne Cornetti, ) Hansel (Corrie Stallings) & Gretel (Ashley Fabian)
© David Bachman

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