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‘Maestro’ Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Life of Ecstasy and Agony

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‘Maestro’ Review: Leonard Bernstein’s Life of Ecstasy and Agony

As director and star, Bradley Cooper delivers an intimate portrait of the composer and his many private and public selves.

By Manohla Dargis

Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.

By Zachary Woolfe

Julia Perry’s ‘Stabat Mater’ Arrives at the Philharmonic

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Julia Perry’s ‘Stabat Mater’ Arrives at the Philharmonic

Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater” was well received in the 1950s. But it took until this week for the New York Philharmonic to program it.

By Garrett Schumann

David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86

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David Del Tredici, Who Set ‘Alice’ to Music, Dies at 86

A Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who liked to redefine himself, he was originally known as an experimentalist but was later identified with a lush style that came to be called the New Romanticism.

By Allan Kozinn