Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with or without choreography By Peter Alexander May 15 at 5:48 p.m. The end of the concert season is prime time for orchestras to tackle the big works. Boulder Symphony with conductor Devin Patrick Hughes Toward the end of the 2024–25 season, in Boulder County we’ve had the Longmont Symphony presenting J.S.…

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21.05.2025

GRACE NOTES: Season-ending programs | Sharps & Flatirons

BCO celebrates an anniversary, Ars Nova celebrates eternity By Peter Alexander May 20 at 8:35 p.m. NOTE: The following post covers events for the next two weeks. I will be traveling with the Longmont Concert Band for a performance in Carnegie Hall May 25 and not back in Colorado until June 1. —Ed. The Boulder…

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12.06.2025

CU NOW explores new opera by Mark Adamo | Sharps & Flatirons

Opera producer/conductor Sarah Caldwell as Greek tragedy By Peter Alexander June 11 at 10:15 p.m. Mark Adamo knows his Greek mythology. The composer/librettist is known not only for having written an opera on Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, but also having linked Bram Stoker’s Dracula with the Greek myth of the Bacchae as librettist for John Corigliano’s 2021…

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19.06.2025

OPINION: Honoring the text in opera productions | Sharps & Flatirons

Who wins—the director or the librettist? By Peter Alexander June 18 at 11:18 a.m. I was in New York recently. While there, I took the opportunity to meet a friend at the Metropolitan Opera, where we saw the new production of Salome by Richard Strauss. The production, starring Elza van den Heever in the title…

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