| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2013 The Music Center at Strathmore | An all-Wagner program from Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony |
 It’s Richard Wagner’s bicentennial year, and everyone is getting in on the act. 22 different productions, by one count, of the complete Ring cycle will be seen worldwide, not to mention countless other celebratory evenings put on by sundry ensembles. Among the latter was last Saturday’s concert at the Music Center at Strathmore, with Marin Alsop leading the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra – a conductor and an ensemble not known for their Wagnerian chops.
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| 2-Nov-2012 Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric | Georgy Vasiliev's Rodolfo triumphs: La bohème in Baltimore |
 “Poetry and again poetry – tenderness mixed with pain; sensuality, a drama surprising and burning, and a rocketing finale.” This is composer Giacomo Puccini describing one of the world’s most famous operas, La bohème. Puccini’s opera presents both directors and opera singers with a serious artistic challenge, and La bohème calls for a lot more than attractive sets, flattering costumes and pleasant voices. To be a true success, the production of this opera requires first-tier vocalism and most convincing acting.
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| 30-Mar-2012 UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall | Marin Alsop and Baltimore Symphony at Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley |
 Kym Thomson.jpg) Five years on from her historic appointment as the first woman to head a major American orchestra, Marin Alsop took to the stage of Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley Friday night with a swagger, leading the impressive Baltimore Symphony, the orchestra with whom she has made her mark as one of the world’s leading conductors. Currently on the West Coast for their first domestic tour of the United States, the evening’s performance was the first of a two-day residency with Cal Performances.
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| 9-Mar-2012 Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric | Lyric Opera Baltimore's Traditional, Youthful Le Nozze di Figaro |
 In the opera world, where being true to a libretto is considered unforgivably boring, and using traditional scenery and costumes very dull, sometimes nothing is more pleasing than seeing a conservative production. Lucky for many opera connoisseurs, some directors still see a certain value in good old traditional opera staging and try to prevent its ultimate modernization by preserving the original feel of the works that they choose to stage.
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