The Boston University Opera Institute-Glimmerglass co-production of Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen at the Emerson-Cutler Majestic Theater impressed this writer as the most consistently satisfying opera he has seen this season.    [continued]

The Boston Symphony gave thoroughly invigorating accounts of Till Eulenspiegel, Rite of Spring, and with violinist Baiba Skride, Sebastian Currier’s Aether, last night at the Hall.    [continued]

Allison Voth curated a remarkable artistic experience with song recital on Cantata Singers Chamber Series, with works by Amy Beach, Margaret Bonds and Libby Larsen’s cycle My Ántonia among highlights.    [continued]

In Sunday’s Celebrity Series concert at Symphony Hall with the Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio, we witnessed a thrilling, yet intimate conversation in works of Mendelssohn, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovitch.    [continued]

Marc-André Hamelin, one of the finest pianists anywhere, radiated cool relaxation and complete passion Sunday at Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.    [continued]

Boston Baroque’s riveting production of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (on Friday evening at Jordan Hall), depicted ethically compromised and amoral characters with beautiful voices    [continued]

Ives’s Third Symphony and Mahler’s Fifth made up Friday’s Symphony Hall bill in what Boston Philharmonic Orchestra founder and conductor Benjamin Zander suggested might be the first time the two pieces have appeared on the same program.    [continued]

To present the essence of Remede de Fortune in a single evening was a real tour de force for Blue Heron’s singers and the musicians of Les Délices at First Church Cambridge on Friday.    [continued]

Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra fine interpretations of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Daniil Trifonov) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 at Symphony Hall last night.    [continued]

For the second of its season’s three operas showing us Helen of Troy in various circumstances, Odyssey Opera offered a Boston premiere of Richard Strauss’s Die Aegyptische Helena in a concert performance at Jordan Hall last Friday.    [continued]

Making its Gardner debut, the Attacca Quartet electrified the house with verve and sensitivity this Easter Sunday. “Heiliger Dankgesang,” indeed.    [continued]

Lowell House Opera found some success in an updated and perhaps relevant Così during a weeklong run at Agassiz Theater.    [continued]

English conductor Andrew Manze and Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi (in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19) made BSO debuts last night, as did 20^th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.    [continued]

On Sunday afternoon, April 7, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and its conductor Gil Rose gave the last concert of its 2018-19 season, a celebration of the 80^th birthday of John Harbison with featured soloists, soprano Dawn Upshaw and violist Marcus Thompson. Ed. Note: We have another review of this concert HERE.    [continued]

Juventas New Music Ensemble’s “Voices of America” showcased new from young immigrant composers with authority and charm at First Church on Saturday.    [continued]

The Met’s Siegfried garnered a deservedly rapturous reception from the capacity audience last Saturday. Happy times at the Met and in Wagner-land.    [continued]

There was no want of love in Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing, or in the interpretations of BPYO founder and conductor Benjamin Zander Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall.    [continued]

Boston Chamber Music Society’s concert Sunday night at Sanders lured in harpists, violists and fans of Harbison and of Brahms. Sublimity and magic prevailed.    [continued]

In his program of music from the 18^th through 20^th centuries for the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative, the star clarinetist bound us in his spell at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brookline on Sunday.    [continued]

The Australian Chamber Orchestra and Paul Lewis provided challenging interpretations of well-known works by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart at Jordan Hall Saturday for the Celebrity Series of Boston.    [continued]

BSO Associate Conductor Ken-David Masur stepped in Thursday night for an injured Gustavo Dudamel. The closer, Antonio Estévez’s emblematic Cantata Criolla was a scorcher.    [continued]

American music composed and performed in in these parts from the 17^th century into the early 19^th resounded Friday night at the First Church in Cambridge. Six well-matched voices led by mezzo Anne Azéma and three instrumentalists participated.      [continued]

In a landmark concert honoring the 80^th birthday of John Harbison on Sunday in Jordan Hall, BMOP presented four works which showed the range of the composer’s vision and mastery.    [continued]

Gustavo Dudamel, made his BSO subscription-series debut with a pair of heavyweight interpretations in one of the best Symphony Hall evenings I can remember.    [continued]

In a display of singular flair and expertise, concertmaster Robert Mealy and harpsichordist Avi Stein led the BEMF orchestra of period instruments, soprano Amanda Forsythe and baritone Jesse Blumberg in a stunning performance of Handel’s Apollo e Dafne at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational Saturday.    [continued]