Anthony Tommasini

...in The New Yorker was just one word: "Fiasco". Ross began, "It takes a certain effort to suck the life out of Tosca . . ." Anthony Tommasini, in The New York Times, was kinder, but wrote, "Still, the booing, if a little unfair, was...

In this article: Tosca, Karita Mattila, James Levine, Marcelo Alvarez, Alex Ross, Act I, New York, Sant'Andrea della Valle, and The New Yorker

...LA Opera's "Ring" and festival. Mark Swed's sterling reviews of the company's "Ring" cycle have been misleading. Please read Anthony Tommasini's take in The New York Times (Oct. 8) for a more realistic view. And now it is quite evident that...

In this article: Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Times, L.A. County, Los Angeles, Siegfried, La boheme, and Adolf Hitler

...Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. One need only read a thrilling March 2006 concert review by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times to get a sense of Morlot's evolving mastery. On a night immersed in drama, Morlot...

In this article: Seattle Symphony, Seattle, James Levine, Gerard Schwarz, and Anglican

...(1980), The Broadway Album (1985), Back to Broadway (1993) and Higher Ground (1997). Among the many accolades for the album, Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times wrote: "like a great jazz singer, lending an earthy emotional cast to the...

In this article: Barbra Streisand, Love, Higher Ground, The Beatles, NEW YORK, American Film Institute, Peabody Award, Cable Ace, Oscars, and People

...aEUR" just like New York drivers aEUR" feel free to give public vent to their feelings. As The New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini wrote in a 2003 article, "singers are rarely booed at the Met, even during curtain calls. The most...

In this article: Tosca, New York City, Franco Zeffirelli, Richard Wagner, Karita Mattila, Marcelo Alvarez, John the Baptist, and Canadian Open

Anthony Tommasini is chief music critic for The New York Times. He is also a book author and pianist. Tommasini was born in Brooklyn and raised on Long Island. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1970, a Master of...

In this article: Boston University, Brandeis University, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Emerson College, Virgil Thomson, Brooklyn, and Long Island

...St. Louis attest. Its annual concerts at Carnegie Hall draw packed crowds and dazzled critics. New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini called the SLSO's April performance of Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 "the most transparent and...

In this article: SLSO, David Robertson, Revenue, Twitter, Carnegie Hall, and St. Louis

...I hadn't thought about all those things, because I was just extremely happy to be onstage and to sing." New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini had nothing but praise for the then- unknown Petrova, describing her as a "vivacious and...

In this article: Lucia di Lammermoor, Catherine Malfitano, Natalie Dessay, Central City Opera, Central City, and Gaetano Donizetti

...Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. ; (845) 758-7900, fishercenter.bard.edu; $15 to $50. (Anthony Tommasini) 'ERNANI' (Friday and Wednesday) It's not too often that operagoers have a shot at this...

In this article: Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Tristan und Isolde, Carnegie Hall, New York City Opera, Tosca, and The Gambler

...even playing today remember when I was the ... I don't know, call it 'the little orchestra brat.' " Now, they call him boss. Anthony Tommasini, chief music critic for The New York Times, says Gilbert is a surprising choice for the...

In this article: Alan Gilbert, New York Philharmonic, Magnus Lindberg, Thomas Hampson, Leonard Bernstein, and Avery Fisher Hall