Music for Saint Cecilia - Purcell, Haendel, Haydn _ Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski.

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet Unherd

Harry’s lament is Puccini turned upside down By Anne-Elisabeth Moutet 

Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab! - Rienzi Richard Wagner Jonas Kaufmann, Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden

Quinn Kelsey, currently starring as Rigoletto, with Christian Van Horn, playing the four villains in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, visiting the Metropolitan Opera Club in New York.

 

Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Ainadamar is a flamenco 💃🏿- infused passion play loosely based on Lorca’s death at the hands of the Falange. It is not an opera in the usual sense, but it fires up the feelings of the Spanish Civil War effectively, without the usual iconography - Guernica, Hemngway, ¡No Pasarán! etc. Angel Blue as Margarita Xirgu, Daniela Mack as Garcia Lorca, Alfredo Tejada as Ramón Alonso, and Elena Villalón as Nuria.

 

Pianist Vikingur Ólafsson after a magnificent Brahms piano 🎹 concerto #1, with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Manfred Honeker, and with a lovely encore of a Bach Prelude also in D minor.

 

Bernard-Henri Lévy interviewed by Alana Newhouse, offering a surprising trenchant view of the rot festering here on college campuses and within the cultural left.