Like a bad nor’easter, the city’s spring music offerings arrive with a roar. At the Met, a revival of Don Carlo, Verdi’s most complex masterpiece, has a powerhouse cast led by the gorgeous young American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. Voice buffs can’t wait for March 10, when Violeta Urmana, a Lithuanian mezzo-turned-soprano, the likes of whom Read More
Luciano Pavarotti has given New York many unforgettable musical gifts since his Met debut in La Bohème in 1968, but the one I may cherish the longest is the recent serial cancellation of his performance in Tosca , which had been planned to bring down the curtain on the Met’s season in a blaze of Read More
New York has always been a funny town for encores. If a concert goes past 10 o’clock you can feel the general anxiety rising, as the Scarsdale-bound start worrying about whether they’ll make the 10:30 and the usual assortment of vulgarians prepare to bolt for the exits the moment the last note has died away. Read More
