Happy Birthday Lenny! Tanglewood Celebrates Bernstein’s Legacy

United StatesUnited States Tanglewood [7] – The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood: Audra MacDonald (host), Boston Symphony Orchestra joined by musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams (conductors), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 25.8.2018. (RP)

Yo-Yo Ma, Jessica Zhou, and John Williams following Williams’s Highwood’s Ghost © Chris Lee

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Sebastian Catana’s Jester Anchors Berkshire Opera Festival’s Riveting Rigoletto

United StatesUnited States Berkshire Opera Festival – Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Berkshire Opera Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Brian Garman (conductor), Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA, 25.8.2018. (RP)

Sebastian Catana (Rigoletto) and Maria Valdes (Gilda) in Berkshire Opera Festival’s Rigoletto © Ken Howard
Sebastian Catana (Rigoletto) & Maria Valdes (Gilda) in Rigoletto © Ken Howard

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Art and Nature Combine for a Transcendent Mahler Third at Tanglewood

United StatesUnited States Tanglewood [6] – Mahler, Symphony No.3: Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Children’s Chorus / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 24.8.2018. (RP)

Susan Graham (mezzo), Andris Nelsons (conductor) & BSO (c) Chris Lee

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Dima Slobodeniouk Debuts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood

United StatesUnited States Tanglewood [4] – Borodin, Wieniawski, Prokofiev: Joshua Bell (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 5.8.2018. (RP)

Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Joshua Bell (violin) & BSO © Hilary Scott

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Teatro Nuovo is Launched with Rossini’s Tancredi

United StatesUnited States Rossini, Tancredi (semi-staged version): Soloists, Jakob Lehmann (primo violino e capo d’orchestra), Teatro Nuovo Chorus and Orchestra/Will Crutchfield (maestro al cembalo), Teatro Nuovo, The Performing Arts Center, Purchase, 3.8.2018. (RP)

Tamara Mumford (Tancredi) & Leo Radosavljevic (Orbazzano) © Steven Pisano

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Honoring Those Who Fought in the War to End All Wars – The Glimmerglass Festival’s Compelling Silent Night

United StatesUnited States The Glimmerglass Festival [3] – Puts, Silent Night: Soloists, The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and Chorus / Nicole Paiement (conductor), Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown, 22.7.2018. (RP)

Michael Hewitt (Lieutenant Horstmayer) in Silent Night © Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival
Michael Hewitt (Lieutenant Horstmayer) in Silent Night
© Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival

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