Opera & Classical Music
Your guide to NYC's best opera shows and classical performances
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- R. Andrew Lee
Critics’ picks: Opera & Classical events
Look & Listen Festival
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
An ambitious music and visual art series returns with an enticing slate of new pieces and top performers
- Pratt Manhattan Gallery 144 W 14th St, between Sixth and Seventh Aves
- Sat May 18 - Sun May 19
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Recent Opera & Classical reviews
Album review: Dennis Johnson, November
- Rated as: 4/5
Restless pianist R. Andrew Lee rewrites the history books with a long-lost minimalist epic
Album review: Drama Queens
- Rated as: 5/5
Joyce DiDonato fires up some of her fiercest vocalism on a flamboyant new CD
Album review: Rachmaninoff, Works for Cello
- Rated as: 4/5
Chamber-music stalwarts do justice to Rachmaninoff's rich, underserved music
Album review: Haydn, The Creation
- Rated as: 4/5
Martin Pearlman conducts superb soloists with period ensemble Boston Baroque in Haydn's joyful oratorio
New York's best classical music venues
Carnegie Hall
- Price band: 2/4
Artistic director Clive Gillinson continues to put his stamp on Carnegie Hall. The stars, both soloists and orchestras, shine most brightly inside this renowned concert hall in the Isaac Stern
- 154 W 57th St, (between Sixth and Seventh Aves)
Metropolitan Opera House (at Lincoln Center)
- Price band: 1/4
The grandest of the Lincoln Center buildings, the Met is a spectacular place to see and hear opera. It hosts the Metropolitan Opera from September to May, with major visiting companies appearing in
- Lincoln Center Plaza, (at 65th St)
Le Poisson Rouge
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Tucked into the basement of the long-gone Village Gate—a legendary performance space that hosted everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix—Le Poisson Rouge was opened in 2008 by a group of young
- 158 Bleecker St, (at Thompson St)
Bargemusic
- Price band: 2/4
This former coffee-bean barge usually presents four chamber concerts a week (plus one jazz program) set against a panoramic view of lower Manhattan. It’s a magical experience (and the programming has
- Fulton Ferry Landing, (at Furman and Old Fulton Sts)
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