This Week’s Review

From Missy Mazzoli, a soothing ‘Sanctuary’ at San Francisco Symphony’s Soundbox

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United StatesUnited States Marcos Balter, Mario Diaz de Leon, Missy Mazzoli, Meredith Monk, John Luther Adams: Missy Mazzoli (curator and synthesizer), Marnie Breckenridge (soprano), Mario Diaz de Leon (synthesizer), Lorna Dune (DJ and synthesizer), members of the San Francisco Symphony / Edwin Outwater (conductor). Soundbox at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 7.2.2020. (HS)

Edwin Outwater conducts Arvo Pärt’s ‘Silentium’, from Tabula Rasa (1977)

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A baffling evening of Meyerbeer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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GermanyGermany Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: Jeremy Bines), Opera-Ballet, and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / Alexander Vedernikov (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 2.2.2020. (MB)

Meyerbeer’s Les Hugenots directed by David Alden at Deutsche Oper Berlin
(c) Bettina Stöss

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Corrado Rovaris celebrates the Big 20 with an electrifying Verdi Requiem in Philadelphia

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United StatesUnited States Verdi, Messa da Requiem: Leah Crocetto (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Evan LeRoy Johnson (tenor), In-Sung Sim (bass), Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 2.2.2020. (RP)

Corrado Rovaris conducting Opera Philadelphia in Verdi’s Requiem © Dominic M. Mercier

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