Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@cincinnatiopera continued its 2024 season with a gorgeous production of one of Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest works, La Traviata. This despite an active police presence outside Music Hall as a result of an active shooter incident in the area prior to the performance (Thanks to @cincinnatipolice and Music Hall’s house staff…

@cincinnatiopera opened its 2024 summer season with gorgeous production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni, which takes a very lighthearted direction in telling the story of Don Juan. First performed at the Estates Theater in Prague in 1787, the opera tells of a vainglorious nobleman who seduces any woman he…

What a spectacular way to close out @mayfestivalcincy’s 2024 season in style! Pairing one of the best-known requiems in today’s choral repertoire with one of the most inventive and exhilarating new works by this year’s festival director Julia Wolfe (@juliawolfemusic) proves that music can truly inspire new generations of audiences.Her…

@mayfestivalcincy continued its 2024 season with mesmerizing performances of two of the most unique pieces to emerge from the American contemporary music scene in the last 20 years, which celebrate natural beauty and raw hardship in one of the darkest, yet overlooked, chapters, in American history.Michael Gordon’s Natural History, commissioned…

mayfestivalcincy continued its 2024 season with a program exploring the deeper meanings of anthems and the power to inspire and connect audiences, including two new scores by Festival Director Julia Wolfe (@juliawolfemusic) and an underrated masterpiece by Ralph Vaughan Williams.Wolfe’s All That Breathes, commissioned for this years’s festival, opened the…

@mayfestivalcincy opened its 2024 season with an absolutely spectacular performance of Franz Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, one of the most significant choral works to emerge from the early romantic period.Originally set to a German libretto by the Austrian diplomat Gottfried von Swieten, The Creation was the first of two…

To say the memories @cincysymphony and @louislangree have made together in his eleven years as music director are innumerable might be an understatement. Reading the Scrapbook of Memorues which is part of this weekend’s season finale for 2023-24 has given me a deeper appreciation of how much audiences in Cincinnati…

What a way for @louislangree to close out a spectacular 11-year tenure as music director of @cincysymphony this evening! Opening with a dramatic, yet joyful performance of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 2, the orchestra showed off its mastery of a composer whose music Langrée has made an integral part of…

@cincysymphony began May 2024 with a scintillating and energetic program of works by two of the most well-known composers from both sides of the classical music spectrum- Cincinnati native Bryce Dessner and Ludwig van Beethoven.Under the leadership of guest conductor Samuel Lee (@samuellee_conductor), the CSO’s Associate Conductor and recent winner…

@cincinnatifusionensemble presented the spring 2024 Sandy Sanborn Martin Memorial Program at @calvaryclifton with perhaps the most eclectic potpourri of music they have programmed yet. It was also a momentous occasion for the group, as tonight’s concert marked its 10th anniversary. Under the leadership of conductors Howard Helvey and Gwen Coleman,…