Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music Critics Picks/Classical Music
Georgia Straight - Ah, spring: season of renewal, rebirth, and yummy chocolate eggs. There s plenty of music to choose from in the coming months to reawaken the senses much of it as heavy as those disgustingly sweet Cadbury Creme Eggs. But if the weighty romantic

Vocalists sparkle, charm in PBO's shining 'Magic Flute'
Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach Opera in this Mozart's 250th birthday year presented the composer's Die Zauberfl te ( The Magic Flute ) Friday evening at the Kravis Center. The intricately woven musical fantasy is one of the very last of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don Giovanni
Georgia Straight - The servant usurps his master in this Don Giovanni, as Turkish bass- baritone Burak Bilgili s Leporello shows more theatrical fire than the aloof aristocrat he takes orders from. In the title role, baritone Brett Polegato smoothly navigates

Remembering Mozart
Free Lance-Star - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing minuets at age 6, symphonies at 8, concertos at 9 and opera at 12 in a rush of genius that flourished unabated until 1791, when Mozart began work on his "Requiem in D Minor," a Mass for the dead. He died at the

Tortelier conducts expansive PSO program
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Multiple enthusiasms converge at this weekend's Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concerts which offer music from heavenly to earthly sublime, with just enough terror for contrast. Principal guest conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier will collaborate with hot