James Levine
Andris Nelsons in Boston…with Two Superb Concerts under the BSO’s New Assistant Conductor, Ken-David Masur, and an Appreciation of James Levine
John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby in Boston
BSO Appoints Andris Nelsons as its New Music Director
Given some of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s distinguished elder statesmen music directors—Karl Muck, Pierre Monteux, Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, James Levine—it’s probably surprising that they have appointed 34-year-old Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons to succeed James Levine as the …
James Levine Withdraws from Met Conducting Assignments through the End of Next Season; a Word for Jonas Alber
The Metropolitan Opera has released the following announcement, which comes as no surprise. What struck me above all is that Fabio Luisi was not able to conduct the last two performances of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung on May 9 and May …
The Lyricism of Despair: Wozzeck at the Met
Wozzeck
music by Alban Berg, libretto by the composer adapted from Georg Büchner’s dramatic fragment, “Woyzeck”
Metropolitan Opera House
Saturday April 16 at 1:00 pm
Conductor, James Levine
Production, Mark Lamos
Set and Costume Designer, Robert Israel
Lighting Designer, James …
Chailly, Lortie, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra play Beethoven at Symphony Hall; Levine All-Beethoven with the BSO
Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762) at the Met
Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna version, 1762)
Music by C. W. Gluck (1714-1787)
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi
Metropolitan Opera
January 24, 2009
Orfeo – Stephanie Blythe
Euridice – Danielle de Niese
Amore – Heidi Grant Murphy
Joshua Greene – Harpsichord…