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2023-12-20 18:01:00
As usual, there won't be a list of best or favorite recordings of 2023, because I don't make any kind of attempt to keep track of new releases - there are so many - or listen to some percentage of them. But it's been an interesting year, for sure.As you can see from the page where I link to all of my music writing, this year I wrote 25 reviews, covering 16 operas, six orchestra concerts (including one of the SFSoundBox concerts), three string quartet concerts, a concert of new and old vocal music by Trio Medieval, and Pan, a theater piece by Marcos Balter for solo flute and community chorus, brilliantly played by Claire Chase. One of those reviews covered four of Santa Fe Opera's five operas. Weirdly, my first and last reviews of the year were of works based on the story of Dido and Aeneas. In addition to the reviews, […]
2023-09-27 20:42:00
From the Met; needless to say, this is a plum job that has had great conductors, including Palumbo and David Stivender.Met Chorus Master Donald Palumboto step down after almost 20 years New York, NY (September 18, 2023)— Met Chorus Master Donald Palumbo announced his decision to step down from the full-time role that he has held for the past 17 years at the end of the 2023–24 season in June. Widely regarded as opera’s leading chorus master, Maestro Palumbo elevated the Met Chorus to new heights during his tenure and was responsible for the chorus’s preparation and performance in nearly 25 productions each season. In 2021, the Met Chorus was awarded Best Chorus in the World at the International Opera Awards. In future seasons, Palumbo will continue to work with the Met on select operas while pursuing his other interests as a teacher at the Juilliard School and Santa Fe Opera, and on other special projects. A […]
2023-08-30 03:05:00
The Supernatural Season
Crosby Theatre, Santa Fe OperaPhoto: Robert Godwin, courtesy of Santa Fe OperaMy review of four of Santa Fe Opera's 2023 productions is posted at San Francisco Classical Voice. There are a ton of prior reviews out there, none of which I read before finishing my review. I'm extremely curious how they all felt about the season, particularly, Nico Muhly's new orchestration of Monteverdi's Orfeo and Netia Jones's production and direction of Pelléas et Mélisande. I liked Muhly's orchestration but didn't give it the weight that I suspect other reviewers did. It's a great, great opera that works with period or modern instruments, and this was a terrific production. I was half-sorry that Muhly didn't introduce some really weird instrumentation; his new orchestration is pretty tasteful.I found the Pelléas production confusing and physically cluttered, both in terms of the set and the direction, unnecessarily complicated. I had mixed feelings about Netia Jones's touring Curlew River, but […]
2023-08-17 17:09:00
[…] even if I voted in these polls, I would have had no idea for whom to vote. The voters spoke, in any event, and chose Yaritza Veliz, the Chilean soprano who was an absolute firecracker in Gabriela Frank's El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego. She was fabulous, and while I have very little interest in L'Elisir d'amore, not to mention even less interest in seeing it twice in one year, I do plan to see Santa Fe Opera's production of it next season because she's in it and Roberto Kalb, who did a terrific job with Frida y Diego, is conducting.
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