Haunted rooms and fractured time: Vanessa reimagined at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

United StatesUnited States Williamstown Theatre Festival – Barber, Vanessa: Soloists, Musicians of the Heartbeat Opera / Dan Schlosberg (conductor). Williamstown Theatre Festival Annex, North Adams, 20.7.2025. (ES-S)

Mary Phillips (Baroness), Ori Marcu (Erika) and Roy Hage (Anatol) © Maria Branova

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Close encounters with Yuja Wang and infernal spirits on a Sunday afternoon at Tanglewood

United StatesUnited States Tanglewood 2025 [2] – Various: Yuja Wang (piano), Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 20.7.2025. (ES-S)

Andris Nelsons conducts the TMCO in the Koussevitzky Shed © Hilary Scott

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Quiet radiance of Fauré’s chamber music revealed at the 92nd Street Y

United StatesUnited States Fauré: Joshua Bell, Irène Duval (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano), Blythe Teh Engstroem (viola). 92nd Street Y, New York, 9.7.2025. (ES-S)

Joshua Bell, Irène Duval (violin), Jeremy Denk (piano), Blythe Teh Engstroem (viola) and Steven Isserlis (cello) © Michael Priest

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s radiant concert performance of Tristan and Isolde in Philadelphia

United StatesUnited States Wagner, Tristan and Isolde (concert performance): Soloists, Tenors and Basses of Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Marian Anderson Hall, Philadelphia, 1.6.2025. (ES-S)

[back l-r] Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde) and Brian Mulligan (Kurwenal) © Jessica Griffin

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