United States Handel, Ariodante: Soloists, Chatham Baroque / Anthony Walker (conductor). Pittsburgh Opera, CAPA Theater, Pittsburgh, 21.4.2023. (RP)
Youthful zest and stylish singing bring luster to Handel’s Ariodante in Pittsburgh
Rick Perdian
Emma O’Halloran’s Mary Motorhead and Trade premiere at Prototype
United States Prototype 2023 [2] – Emma O’Halloran, Trade and Mary Motorhead: Kyle Bielfield, Marc Kudisch, Naomi Louisa O’Connell (performers), Novus NY / Elaine Kelly (music direction). Abrons Arts Center, New York, 13.1.2023. (RP)
Nathan Gunn gives a powerful performance at Prototype in Du Yun’s In Our Daughter’s Eyes
United States Prototype 2023 [1] – Du Yun, In Our Daughter’s Eyes: Nathan Gunn (baritone), Instrumentalists / Kamna Gupta (conductor). Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, 11.1.2023. (RP)
iSing! Suzhou and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’ celebrates Lunar New Year
United States Various – ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’: Contestants, The Philadelphia Orchestra / Lio Kuokman (conductor). iSing! Suzhou, Alice Tully Hall, New York, 7.1.2023. (RP)
BASS’s ‘Recovered Voices’ explores music by composers who perished in the Holocaust
United States Various – ‘The World at War: Recovered Voices’: Kristina Bachrach (soprano), Anna Laurenzo (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Meglioranza (baritone), Stanichka Dimitrova (violin), Nathaniel LaNasa (piano). Brooklyn Art Song Society, First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 6.1.2023. (RP)
Brooklyn Art Song Society’s powerful, lyrical reflections on a world at war
United States Various, ‘The World at War: In Memoriam I & II’: Brooklyn Art Song Society, First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn, New York. Filmed on 7.10.2022 and 4.11.2022 and available on Brooklyn Art Song Society Digital Concert Hall. (RP)
Joyce DiDonato Master Classes: passion and drama from five extraordinary young singers
United States Joyce DiDonato Master Classes: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) with Anchal Indu Dhir (soprano), Marissa Moultrie (soprano), Rael Rent (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Barasa (tenor), Łukasz Zientarski (baritone), Justina Lee and Ken Noda (piano). Weill Music Room/Resnick Education Wing, Carnegie Hall, New York, 11-13.12.2022. (RP)
Tenor Daniel McGrew’s love of song was on full display in his Young Concert Artists New York debut
United States Various: Daniel McGrew (tenor), Sophia Zhou (piano). Young Concert Artists, Merkin Hall, New York, 8.12.2022. (RP)
