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In director Simon McBurney’s Met debut, Mozart’s opera receives clever twists, along with first-rate singing
A project to record a complete cycle of the piano concertos is resumed after two decades
Plus a conceptual Salome and an unsatisfying Idomeneo
Gustavo Dudamel conducts a confusing Mozart while Hartmut Haenchen masters Mussorgsky
Patrick Mackie’s guide shakes us out of taking the easy beauty of the composer’s music for granted
The young Italian pianist pairs the cheerful with the more reflective in an enjoyable album
Marc Minkowski conducts Les Musiciens du Louvre in a performance of a work often left in shadow
Complicite’s revived production for English National Opera is a deft piece of theatre
Phelim McDermott’s production of Mozart’s opera is eye-catching and well sung
We talk to Lucian Msamati, star of the National Theatre’s Amadeus, about the nature of genius
An onstage orchestra brings Mozart’s music to life in Peter Shaffer’s play
This performance of Brahms and Mozart at the Shanghai Symphony Hall was a study in contrasts
The virtuoso arias demand singers of agility, which Classical Opera’s cast supplies in abundance
Roderick Williams is the best thing about this production of Mozart’s opera
Presenting Mozart’s opera as part of a trilogy adds confusion but there are also comic highs and depths of emotion
Director Peter Sellars and conductor Teodor Currentzis have created a production of informed iconoclasm
This Mostly Mozart concert was in fact mostly Beethoven and Schubert but Edward Gardner took it all in his stride
Mozart’s opera unfolds on a 1930s ocean liner
An insider’s guide to the city by Dominique Meyer, director of the State Opera House
Matthew Polenzani and Alice Coote led a mostly inspired ensemble as Mozart’s opera returned to New York
The pianist played a demanding programme at London’s Royal Festival Hall
‘Petrushka’ and ‘L’enfant et les sortilèges’ exuberantly reimagined by UK collective 1927
He was an assiduous workaholic rather than a conduit for a higher being
The pianist was tuned in to the intimacy and grandeur of two Mozart piano concertos
Richard Jones’s new production palls, but musical standards are high under Mark Wigglesworth
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