When the lights went up Sunday afternoon on a shirtless man next to a pantsless man—both American, both young—I knew that City Opera was back. It was the start of the second act of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and the two men were playing the eponymous antihero and his servant, Leporello.
Christopher Alden’s new production Read More
When Jane Moss, the Mostly Mozart Festival’s artistic director, throws her hands up and themes this year’s series as “Six Degrees of Separation,” you know this isn’t about Mozart anymore. Haydn, dead 200 years in 2009, and John Adams, whose opera A Flowering Tree is loosely inspired by The Magic Flute, are Mozart’s special friends Read More
Question: What does cutting-edge classical music have in common with cancer drugs? Answer: Both are made by Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical company. The man behind this unlikely product line is the late Paul Sacher, the eminent Swiss conductor, music patron and Roche director, who happened to be married to the widow of the son of Read More
Strictly speaking, the classical-music season began Sept. 13 at the New York City Opera with Handel’s delicious Semele, with a superlative young cast led by the soprano Elizabeth Futral and the mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux. On Sept. 20, the city’s newest concert hall—the Renzo Piano–designed jewel box of an auditorium at the Morgan Library—opened with “Baroque Read More
Strictly speaking, the classical-music season began Sept. 13 at the New York City Opera with Handel’s delicious Semele, with a superlative young cast led by the soprano Elizabeth Futral and the mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux. On Sept. 20, the city’s newest concert hall—the Renzo Piano–designed jewel box of an auditorium at the Morgan Library—opened with “Baroque Read More
Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through a bad patch. Although he has a fanatically faithful audience and a splendid new facility in Brooklyn across from B.A.M., there hasn’t been a new work to rank with his finest for a number of years now. His recent Sylvia Read More
Mark Morris—the wonder boy of dance for more than two decades now—has been going through a bad patch. Although he has a fanatically faithful audience and a splendid new facility in Brooklyn across from B.A.M., there hasn’t been a new work to rank with his finest for a number of years now. His recent Sylvia Read More
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein, a conductor and scholar who loves footnotes as much as Read More
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For some time, no festival has been more avid in pursuit of the unfamiliar than Bard SummerScape, whose guiding spirit is Bard College president Leon Botstein, a conductor and scholar who loves footnotes as much as Read More
April 22, 2006
6:01 p.m.
6 pounds, 9 ounces
Holy Name Hospital
Color them overjoyed: Painters Genevieve and Joseph McCarthy (he is also a graphic designer at Koch Entertainment), both 33, have a new little blank canvas, prompting them to move from artsy Williamsburg to ( yikes) Bergenfield, N.J. Ms. McCarthy already Read More
