Classicalvoiceamerica.org Website Review

NEW YORK – The charismatic Venezuelan conductor’s energetic account of Verdi’s score sometimes left it wanting a chance to breathe. Carl Tanner, stepping into the title role, gave a judiciously executed performance. DIGITAL REVIEW – Leonard Bernstein’s only full-length Wagner opera recording features a starry cast led by Peter Hofmann and Hildegard Behrens, while the Vienna Philharmonic delivers crackling Haydn 88, 92 and 94. NEW YORK – For On Site Opera’s version at Church of the Holy Apostles, host to Manhattan’s largest soup kitchen, audience members were asked to donate food in lieu of cash. Tickets released online went in 20 minutes. Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall with the saga of a million Africans in the maw of World War I. the luridly comic opera, which is making audiences squeamish at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. NEW YORK – Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes a galvanizing, earlier-than-expected debut as the Met’s new music director. The orchestra played with a sense of nuance, energy and precision not always matched by leads Violetta and Alfredo. BERLIN – In a concert exploring Italian-influenced French music dating from the reign of Louis XV, the ensemble Les Talens Lyriques expressed the virtues of authentic-minded musicianship and a historical approach. NEW YORK – Julia Wolfe’s hour-plus, five-movement oratorio, performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Ba*g on a Can All-Stars led by Julian Wachner, celebrated the addictive culture around a di*ty job. post-as*ault trauma in its premiere, but the murky narrative left one wishing for some clear story-telling. BROOKLYN – Much of the novelty in Heidi Rodewald’s work, based on the Red Cross life-saving manual, came from the clash of blunt instructional prose incongruously jammed into pop-music contours. That technique quickly wore thin. TORONTO – In music by Chopin and Debussy, the 2015 Chopin Competition gold medalist gave an impressive demonstration of