James Levine

  • Wedding party.

    The Bartered Bride at the Peter Jay Sharp TheaterThe New York Times, February 17, 2011 The first full-scale collaboration between the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School, this was both an accomplished production and a plain-old delight. The performance drew a house packed with luminaries, including Mark Morris, Brian Dickie and, naturally, Peter Gelb. There

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  • Ad libitum.

    Toy-piano advocate Phyllis Chen opens the new season of Barbès Classical—a casual series produced by the Concert Artists Guild's New Music/New Places initiative—on Sunday, September 12 at Barbès in Park Slope, Brooklyn, also celebrating the release of her new CD, Mesmers. (PhyllisChen.net) The partisans of queer opera blog Parterre Box are running up a tally

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