Tõnu Kaljuste brings transcendent beauty and emotion to Pärt at Carnegie Hall

United StatesUnited States Pärt: Maria Listra (soprano), Annika Lõhmus (soprano), Danila Frantou (countertenor), Raul Mikson (tenor), Toomas Tohert (tenor), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra / Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York, 24.10.2025. (RP)

Maria Listra (soprano), Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra © Jennifer Taylor

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An excellent Wexford performance cannot disguise the flaws in Delius’s The Magic Fountain

IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Delius, The Magic Fountain: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 25.10.2025. (RB)

Wexford Festival Opera’s The Magic Fountain © Pádraig Grant

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Conductor Eun Sun Kim and a committed cast make Parsifal soar at San Francisco Opera

United StatesUnited States Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 25.10.2025. (HS)

Klingsor (Falk Struckmann) reprimands Kundry (Tanja Ariane Baumgartner) in SFO’s Parsifal © Cory Weaver

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Talent of the Orchesterakademie der Wiener Philharmoniker on show at the Musikverein

AustriaAustria Castérède, Wagner, Berio, Spohr, J. Strauss II: Nora Gubisch (mezzo-soprano), Orchesterakademie der Wiener Philharmoniker / Alain Altinoglu (conductor), Brahms-Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, 24.10.2025. (LJ)

Members of the Orchesterakademie der Wiener Philharmoniker in the Brahms-Saal © Barbara Wirl

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