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With Egyptian-born Amina Edris in the title role, Massenet’s opera engages the musical and theatrical imagination with its rich characterizations of Greek mythic adventures.
Read MoreConductor Benjamin Zander put the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra to challenging work at Symphony Hall, while, on record, Isabelle Faust delivers a vital, urgent, and engrossing traversal of the Britten Violin Concerto.
Read MoreThis week’s poem: J.D. Scrimgeour’s “Some Questions for the Chinese Character”
Read MoreThe Finnish conductor’s welcome return to the Boston Symphony Orchestra heralds the kick-off of a two-week festival of Nordic music.
Read MoreThe energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.
Read MoreThroughout this superb live album, percussionist Gustavo Cortiñas allows his fellow band members an enormous amount of space, and that is welcome because of their high level of musicianship.
Read MoreThis encouraging book highlights the preponderance of positive developments regarding the efforts, worldwide, to deal with climate change.
Read MoreThis biography of Keith Haring is a compendium of vivid, first-person narratives that provide an engaging insider’s perspective on the artist’s life.
Read More“Make Me Famous” is not the portrait of a superstar like Jean-Michel Basquiat or Keith Haring; this protagonist is representative of the everyday angst, the struggle, the not-making-it, and the work that was produced regardless.
Read MoreThis arch-New Englander, descendant of Puritans, is also “the American who resists branding, who will not be commodified.”
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Music Commentary: A Deepdive into The Mothers of Invention’s “Plastic People”