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Mitsuko Uchida Keeps the Focus on Young Artists at Ojai

Barriere, Jean-Baptiste Brentano String Quartet Campbell, Jay (Musician) Classical Music Kenney, Alexi Mahler Chamber Orchestra Ojai (Calif) Ojai Music Festival Saariaho, Kaija Uchida, Mitsuko

Mitsuko Uchida Keeps the Focus on Young Artists at Ojai

Mitsuko Uchida appeared every night at her edition of the Ojai Music Festival. The rest of the time was given to other performers.

By Joshua Barone

When Vienna’s Opera Tradition Got Too Traditional, They Stepped In

Classical Music Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera) de Beer, Lotte Iolanta (Opera) Opera Roscic, Bogdan Vienna (Austria) Vienna State Opera Volksoper (Vienna, Austria)

When Vienna’s Opera Tradition Got Too Traditional, They Stepped In

Bogdan Roscic and Lotte de Beer are shaking the dust off Vienna’s two biggest repertory companies.

By Joshua Barone

Review: ‘Inside Light’ Gives a Taste of Stockhausen’s Opera Epic

Audi, Pierre Classical Music Inside Light (Musical Work) Licht (Opera) Park Avenue (Manhattan, NY) Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Schonebaum, Urs Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Review: ‘Inside Light’ Gives a Taste of Stockhausen’s Opera Epic

At the Park Avenue Armory, a five-hour selection of pieces from the 29-hour “Licht” cycle is best appreciated as a marathon performance.

By Zachary Woolfe

Gone in a Six-Year Flash: Farewell to the New York Phil’s Maestro

Appointments and Executive Changes Borda, Deborah Classical Music New York Philharmonic Resurrection (Musical Work) van Zweden, Jaap

Gone in a Six-Year Flash: Farewell to the New York Phil’s Maestro

The pandemic-derailed tenure of Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra’s music director, was too short to give us a full sense of him, as man or maestro.

By Zachary Woolfe