| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 3-Aug-2012 Haus für Mozart | Ariadne auf Naxos dismantled at the Salzburg Festival |
 Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos was first performed in 1912, in a production directed by Max Reinhardt. Unlike the version usually seen today, this first Ariadne was a long-winded play-opera-ballet hybrid, incorporating a full production of Molière’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme with dances to incidental music by Strauss followed by the short opera. Less than a decade later these three men would found the Salzburg Festival, so it seems only appropriate that the festival is celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Ariadne.Read full review... | |
| 9-Nov-2011 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | A supremely thoughtful St. John Passion |
 “...the days of Johann Sebastian Bach, when music was like a rose blooming on a boundless snow-covered plain of silence...” This sentiment of Milan Kundera was stunningly realized by L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal tonight with their solemn performance of J. S. Bach’s Passion According to St. John. In the presence of such serene music all worldly concern dissolved, and the OSM was able to deliver a performance which was spiritual enough for a great cathedral.Read full review... | |
