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Critic’s Choice

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is one of America’s most prominent and respected […]

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Wed Mar 04, 2020
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Quigley to switch on the Enlightenment for Seraphic Fire’s first festival

Forget, for a moment, the conventional divisions of classical music into […]

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Sun Feb 09, 2020
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Top Ten Performances of 2019

1. Riccardo Muti/Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s […]

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Tue Dec 24, 2019
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Seraphic Fire to start season at the 12th century with Hildegard of Bingen

Many people, even some musicians, think that music history begins with […]

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Mon Nov 04, 2019
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Critic’s Choice for 2019-20

Danill Trifonov with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony. […]

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Thu Sep 05, 2019
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Artists’ turbulent love affair takes the stage in FGO’s “Frida”

The opera stage is where passions, conflicts, and destinies that are […]

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Thu Mar 14, 2019
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Top Ten Performances of 2018

1. Seraphic Fire and Patrick Quigley: Arvo Pärt’s Passio Patrick Dupré […]

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Fri Dec 21, 2018
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Critic’s Choice for 2018-19 season

Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony. Mozart, Britten and Bruckner. October 20 […]

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Mon Sep 03, 2018
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The state of Miami’s classical music scene: Part Two–A call for a new Miami orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra has reduced its annual Miami residency to two […]

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Mon Jun 18, 2018
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The state of Miami’s classical music scene: Part One–The quiet death of Festival Miami

The announcement this past season that the Cleveland Orchestra has reduced […]

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Mon Jun 11, 2018
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FGO to present “Florencia”–a modern opera with old-fashioned melodies

The company premiere of a contemporary opera usually means taking a […]

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Wed Apr 25, 2018
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From Gluck to Glass, Anthony Roth Costanzo is broadening opera’s reach

“I hang out with people who go to galleries, who are […]

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Mon Mar 12, 2018
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Chicago Symphony’s low brass will take top billing at the Kravis Center

In a rehearsal room at Chicago’s Symphony Center members of the Chicago […]

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Thu Feb 08, 2018
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Soprano Kirsten Chambers gears up for the sensual and spiritual elements of FGO’s “Salome”

Few operas have the dramatic intensity of Richard Strauss’s Salome. A […]

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Wed Jan 24, 2018
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Top Ten Performances of 2017

1. Florida Grand Opera: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Florida Grand […]

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Tue Dec 19, 2017
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Critic’s Choice for the 2017-18 season

Carson Kievman’s Tesla. September 28- October 1 at the Colony Theater, Miami Beach […]

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Thu Aug 24, 2017
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FGO set to present operatic tale of exiled Cuban poet

After escaping from Cuba, the novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas found […]

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Tue Mar 14, 2017
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Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor charts his own adventurous musical path

In classical music, talk of musical “prodigies” can be loaded. On […]

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Mon Feb 13, 2017
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Marking 15 years, Welser-Möst is in a good place with Cleveland Orchestra

When Franz Welser-Möst was announced as music director of the Cleveland […]

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Mon Jan 23, 2017
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Critic’s Choice

The combination of Michael Tilson Thomas and Mahler is one of […]

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Tue Jan 17, 2017
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