Chicago Opera Theater’s all-20th-century 2... The Classical Review Chicago Opera Theater’s 2014 season promises to continue the edgy and inventive programming that has characterized its first two productions under new chief Andreas [...] 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Duo Yamamoto takes the gold at Dranoff 2 P... The Classical Review Sisters Ayaka and Yuka Yamamoto took the Gold Prize and $25,000 Thursday night at the 12th Dranoff International 2 Piano Competition, The Japanese team, [...] 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Andris Nelsons tapped as music director fo... The Classical Review In a move that appears to have caught nearly everyone by surprise, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has appointed Andris Nelsons as its 15th music [...] 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Met Young Artist shows world-class artistr... The Classical Review Russian baritone Alexey Lavrov offered a generous sampling of Russian and Italian opera arias and songs by German, French, Russian and Italian composers in [...] 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

20-year-old Russian to open Miami Piano Fe... The Classical Review The Miami International Piano Festival’s Discovery Series, running May 16–19 at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach, has a knack for bringing in distinctive, [...] 8 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Met’s “Carmelites” closes season with deva... The Classical Review An early decree of France’s revolutionary government concerned opera: the prohibition of public singing by castrati, seen as “unnatural” creatures fatally bound up with [...] 12 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Handel and Haydn Society brings biblical f... The Classical Review The last time the Handel and Haydn Society performed Jephtha, memories of the Civil War were still fresh in listeners’ minds. “It’s long overdue,” [...] 14 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

For Dranoff Competition teams, twenty fing... The Classical Review It isn’t easy when four hands share 88 keys. “It’s like acrobatics, two people all over each other,” said pianist Liuben Dimitrov, one of [...] 15 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Memorable Brahms and Mahler with MTT, Tetz... The Classical Review Music of Brahms and Mahler is hardly terra incognito but when you have musicians of the caliber of Michael Tilson Thomas, Christian Tetzlaff and [...] 19 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Fleming soars in premiere of new song cycl... The Classical Review Last night Renée Fleming gave the next-to-last concert in her Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” residency, part of a season that had a retrospective feeling to [...] 21 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story