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...Even more striking are the orchestral showpiece Turbulent Landscapes and Helios, a dazzling oboe concerto written for Nicholas Daniel (“he turned up for the performance as the sun god in a bright red dinner...
...“The music we are playing has lifted us through so many crises,” said Daniel Froschauer, the philharmonic’s first violinist....
...Rather than try to impose a logical narrative, director Daniel Kramer has opted for a series of tableaux, some of them striking, some predictable, but all varying uneasily in tone and effectiveness....
...Daniel Bento, his son, inherited the position, which he shares with his brother-in-law....
...As Arnott recreates this grungy realm that at the time fascinated writers such as Gay and Daniel Defoe, the most distinctive feature is its language....
...Rufus Bonds Jr plays Porgy, the disabled beggar who loves Bess, played here by Nicola Hughes, and tries to save her from her troubled past....
...The chief beneficiary of the muddled meddling that remains would seem to be Audra McDonald, the adulated soprano cast as Bess....
...Salzburg Festival Intendant Jürgen Flimm was announced as the head of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden over Christmas, after which Daniel Barenboim vanished from the podium for the Staatskapelle’s traditional...
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