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Listen to Beethoven’s Second Symphony and you would be hard put to make a connection with the composer’s inner turmoil and his realisation that the increasing signs of incurable deafness would be life-changing. The work’s key of D major exudes sunniness. But contrast that with the example of Mahler’s annus horribilis in 1907: the early death of his daughter Maria, th...


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What a treat to hear a full concert of Telemann’s magnificent music. The dates of composition of the pieces span 30 + years: hence, “Telemann Old and New,” with the late cantata, Ino, standing with one foot in the Baroque and another in the Classical.

First, though, the Overture-Suite in F of the mid-1760’s. A late work, it features a pair of horns prominen...


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With no curtain hiding it, the audience could enjoy Edward T. Morris’s angular, disjointed, abstract design of the ever-present trees on the set as they sat down in the theater before Annapolis Opera’s Hansel and Gretel this past weekend.

Criminally under-attended on opening night, this is a great, Stranger Things-esque production from a great comp...


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Continuing their Passion Plays festival with this second in a series of three works, IN Series this past weekend featured Passio, a work produced by Maribeth Diggle and Lucie de Saint Vincent. This is a work with music and words created entirely by the cast. As Executive Director David Mack explained before the performance, Passio is meant to show us that pe...


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Going in to Washington Concert Opera’s production of The Pearl Fishers on Saturday, I had low expectations as this was the composer’s first major opera to be produced professionally.

My expectations were exceeded.

One wonders at the exoticism Bizet employed here by setting the opera in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), but even in concert form, The Pearl Fi...


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