In Performance: Ailyn Pérez of ‘Carmen’

If Morteza Mahjoubi’s pianism is alive today, it is not out of devotion or praise for his person, but rather on account of something internal to his virtuosity: a sublime rubato that penetrates beneath the level of surface and releases melodies that cultivate and nourish the soul. Mahjoubi’s tone is so striking, its kinship to […]

In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the Russian art scene saw an exodus of foreigners and locals alike. Russian artists, curators, filmmakers, and writers left the country in protest and several top figures at art institutions quit their jobs. Among the most prominent non-Russians, New Zealander curator Simon Rees quit […]

To conduct Bach’s Mass in B minor, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner wrote, “is to be filled with a tremendous sense of anticipation.” You have a feeling, he continued in his book “Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven,” “that you are going to be exposed to a heightened sense of consciousness — of the […]