PALO ALTO, Calif. â A Joan Mitchell painting looms at the top of the grand staircase at the Anderson Collection, Stanford Universityâs modern art museum here. Itâs a sweaty, emotive work, bright colors moodily smeared across a huge canvas.
Marcello Giordani, a heartfelt, stalwart and, at his best, inspired tenor who was a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera and other major houses around the world, died Saturday at his home in Augusta, Sicily. He was 56.
The moment took on new mystery and wonder, and the import of the operaâs conclusion â a timeless religious sphere quietly swallows up the transient concerns of governments and romances â was suddenly fresh.
It was funny to hear this coming from Donald Nally, the conductor of the Crossing, a choir devoted to new music that makes some of the prettiest sounds youâll ever hear.
Well, no one could say that the quintet of protagonists of âThe Central Park Five,â a jazz-infused new opera by Anthony Davis and Richard Wesley that was premiered on Saturday at the Warner Grand Theater here by Long Beach Opera, donât deserve it.
NEW YORK â A cityâs culture is an ecosystem. Something gets added, something gets taken away, and thereâs a change in climate that affects everyone.
Thirty years ago, conductor Simon Rattle received a letter. It was from a teacher at Chethamâs School of Music in Manchester, England, telling Rattle about an extraordinarily talented teenage maestro there named Daniel Harding.
NEW YORK â Robert Ashleyâs âImprovement (Don Leaves Linda)â isnât the first opera to have its heroine pathetically forsaken in an American desert. Pucciniâs âManon Lescautâ starts its final act in one, with the title character âalone, lost, abandoned,â as she cries in a majestic outpouring of an aria.
Sanford Sylvan, the American baritone whose introspective eloquence and serene yet commanding presence put him at the center of some of the most important operatic events of recent times, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 65.
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