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2023-05-25 17:03:00
Dudamel Resigns from Paris Opera
Paris OperaInterior of the GarnierPhoto by Lisa HirschOctober, 2018Here's a real surprise: Gustavo Dudamel is leaving the Paris Opera after only two seasons as its music director, effective in August. The appointment was its own surprise because he'd conducted hardly any opera at the time he was tapped for the job. (Anthony Tommasini wrote an article back then saying of course that was just fine! I thought he was being ridiculous. There is a link to the article in the article I linked to.)All he's saying is that he wants to spend more time with his family, with whom he lives in Spain. Ahem. So for the next couple of years he'll be in LA a substantial part of the time anyway, then he'll be closer, anyway, with the new job in NY. We now know that one reason for the NY Phil position was, presumably, not for the shorter commute to […]
2022-11-26 19:02:00
[…] New York, would talk about "supreme nights" in the 1990s and early 2000s, as if (a) he had been to all those performances, and (b) any other Fleming nights after the early 2000s were somehow less than supreme, hinting at a noticeable decline. Was he really there in the auditorium for her farewell to the Met stage as the Marchallin just five years ago? Someone else was sent to review it for the paper--Anthony Tommasini, a gentleman who approached artists with respect and measured his words with a long perspective. And someone else was sent to cover her final performance and thunderous, confetti-laden ovation that ensued. For Woolfe to highlight those years, which were a quarter century ago, as prescribed markers from which to judge a lyric soprano voice in 2022 is cruel and unkind. We all know this year's Fleming ain't the 1995 or the 2000 vintage; does […]
2022-11-26 07:27:00
Media Round-Up: The Hours, Metropolitan Opera
[…] made an amazing opera. It didn't.) Christopher Corwin, Parterre Box ("I rarely glance at my watch during an opera, but last night at the Met I did—several times—as The Hours seemed to be going on for hours and hours and…")Related: the recently-revived Sieglinde's Diaries takes a few unwarranted potshots at Zachary Woolfe, thinking that he is "trashing" Fleming (he is not) and apparently unaware of three other published reviews that are less-than-raves about her. The kind words for Tommasini - I mean, let me note that plenty of people consider him a milquetoast reviewer unwilling to express his opinions. You know, he moved his Levine recordings from the living room to his bedroom!
2022-10-07 18:53:40
When Anthony Tommasini was a young, aspiring musician, he made his first forays into the orchestra’s concert hall. He realized it would not do.
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