Barbara Hannigan

Classical Album Reviews: “Dance With Me” and “Eden”

Marvelously accomplished albums from American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.

Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

Picks for the top live classical performances of 2016. Feel free to agree, disagree, add to them, come up with your own list, etc.

Everyone on stage seemed to sense that this was a special occasion and the BSO, accordingly, played with an extra jolt of electricity.

Jonah May 26, 2022 at 5:24 pm on Television Review: “Love on the Spectrum U.S.” Celebrating Autism — in AmericaAutistic people shouldn't be alone. This show not only shows others that autistic people can find that one true person....
Jan Mancuso May 25, 2022 at 2:46 pm on Concert Review: Joe Jackson at the Shubert Theatre — A Restlessly Creative Artist at the Peak of his PowersSo envious of those who have seen and will see & hear Joe on this tour. He’s a favorite musician...
Joan Lancourt May 25, 2022 at 1:55 pm on Theater Review: “Our Daughters, Like Pillars” — Bearing the WeightSadly, David Greenham and I must have seen different plays. Banal (i.e. lacking in originality or freshness; trite and predictable)...
Jana Mestecky May 25, 2022 at 1:52 pm on Theater Commentary: Burnt NortonThank you, thank you, thank you. From one of the Times Nine.
Bill Marx, Editor of The Arts Fuse May 25, 2022 at 9:10 am on Arts Commentary: Getting ‘em in the DoorHere is an Azenberg sentiment, quoted in the New York Theatre article, that struck me: "We don’t have an agreed...