We have received a report on how the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador (pop. 3.8 million) went about selecting a chief conductor and artistic director for its symphony orchestra. It’s an object lesson in transparency. Why can’t others do the …

Maestro Anzolini will have the honor to conduct the new version of Philip Glass opera Appomattox at the Washington National Opera. The world premiere will take place on November 14, 2015. The piece is based on the parallel stories of …

Maestro Dante Santiago Anzolini has the honor and privilege to be part of the jury to the oldest, and arguably one of the most important conducting competitions in the world.

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Mo. Anzolini will make his debut in Torino conducting Akhnaten, opera by Philip Glass. The piece will be premiered in Italy in concert version, on September 13. Soloists, narrator, the Chorus and Orchestra from the Teatro Regio di Torino will …

At the end of the concert, Dante Anzolini received both a standing ovation from the public and a warm applause from the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo, Uruguay. The critic Julio César Huertas, from “El Pais” titled a …

Pianist Hiroaki Ooi will play the first piano version written in history of the Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra. This paramount piece of the XX Century is allegedly the most important orchestral piece written by the master. Nobody had attempted to …

Here announcement and map. Concerts series including Mahler Symphonies for piano solo, and the world premiere of the first written version in history of the masterpiece by Schoenberg. In Tokyo, July 12, 2015, at 7PM.

After a very successful debut in Teatro Solis in 2014, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Montevideo has invited Mo.Anzolini to be part of this season´s concert series. On July 14, 2015, Mo. Anzolini will conduct the beloved Mahler Fourth Symphony, the …

The second part of the interview about Mo. Anzolini´s career will take place tonight at 8.15pm Buenos Aires time. It will cover his career from 1987 to the present. Journalist Eduardo Borquez will conduct the dialogue-discussion in the show “Compartiendo …

Maestro Anzolini will be guest of journalist Eduardo Luis Bórquez, who leads the show “Compartiendo la Radio” (“Radio sharing”). The interview shall uncover the beginning of the biography of the musician, born in a low middle-class family of immigrant foreigners, …

2015 is shaping itself as an opportunity for Maestro Anzolini to work in music as a world-traveler. Some highlights: Maestro Anzolini will be member of the Jury for the Besancon International Conducting Competition. The semifinals are to be held in …

An interview by Magdalena Hoisbauer, now on line at the site of the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Austria. (available only in German) Please click on http://www.bruckner-orchester.at/22981_DE.pdf?exp=24569325122148 The page will show the entire interview, conducted before the premiere of Tosca, on September …

TV On line. http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Oberoesterreich-heute/70016/Oberoesterreich-heute/8438206/Premiere-Tosca/8440018

“Tosca”-Neuinszenierung von Intendant Rainer Mennicken im Linzer Musiktheater (von Balduin Sulzer) Puccinis “Tosca”, eine musikalisch wie szenisch mit hitzig gedrängtem Ausdruck aufwartende Neuproduktion im Linzer Musiktheater: Die Premiere am Freitag wartete mit prachtvollen Solisten-stimmen auf und erntete viel Publikums-Applaus. Tosca, …

Puccini-Premiere. Die Oper Tosca wurde Freitagabend im Musiktheater mit tosendem Applaus belohnt. (Von Daniel Scheiblerger) Liebe, Gier, Macht, Tod-Giacomo Puccinis Opern-Klassiker Tosca, der am Freitag zum Saison-Auftakt im Linzer Musiktheater am Volksgarten auf die Bühne gebracht wurde, unterließ das Publikum …

Phantastische Solistenstimmen, vortreffliche Puccini-Orchesterklänge sowie eine optisch und inhaltlich beeindruckende Neuinszenierung von Intendant Rainer Mennicken LINZ. Heiße eifersüchtige Liebe auf düsterem politischem Hintergrund der napoleonischen Zeit, das ist das Thema der Oper „Tosca“ von Giacomo Puccini (1958-1924). Das literarische Vorbild …

Von Paul Stepanek Erster Eindruck: Dem Team um den Regie führenden Intendanten Rainer Mennicken ist ein mehr als respektabler Wurf gelungen. Die an sich schon hochdramatische Handlung rund um das Personendreieck der Sängerin Floria Tosca, des Malers Cavaradossi und des …

Sensationeller Saisonbeginn am Linzer Landestheater: Die Premiere der Oper “Tosca” von Giacomo Puccini am Freitagabend im Musiktheater am Volksgarten wurde vom Publikum mit einhelliger Begeisterung aufgenommen. Den Solisten und dem Inszenierungsteam brandete zuletzt ein Jubel entgegen wie man ihn in …

A thunderous applause enhanced with minutes of standing ovation was the response of public to the Tosca performance last night. A great success for all singers, chorus, orchestra, regisseur, stage and costumes marked the departure for the opera season in …

Mo. Anzolini will open the season 2014-15 for the Linz Landestheater in Austria. He will conduct the great Brucknerorchester Linz, and a remarkable cast, led by Sonja Gornik (Tosca), Marcelo Puente (Cavaradossi), and Tuomas Pursio (Scarpia), with the regie of …

Dante Anzolini has been invited to open the season of the Montevideo Philharmonic in Uruguay. The concert is scheduled on May 13, 2014 in the Teatro Solís. The program includes Rachmaninoff´s last orchestral piece, the Symphonic Dances, and Verdi´s Overture …

Mo. Anzolini will lead tomorrow Sunday 23rd of March, the Paraná Orchestra in the second concert of the season. The program will start with the Preludio to the Bachianas Brasileras No.4 by Villa Lobos, followed by the Serenade for Strings …

Dante Anzolini will open the season of the Orchestra of Curitiba, Parana state, in Brazil. On Thursday March 13, at 8pm, he will conduct a program consisting on Verdi’s Overture to “La forza del destino”, the Flute concerto by Nielsen, …

Dante Anzolini, the King Beyond His Own Will “Oh, Madonna!” – shouted conductor Dante Anzolini, taking a look at his watch – almost no time left from a short break. The conversation took just a half-an-hour; however, during his visit …

Dante Anzolini will be conducting a concert with the Muenchener Symphoniker this coming Saturday, January 18, 2014, at 19.30. This will mark his debut in the wonderful Philharmonie Saal. The program is composed of pieces by Bernstein, Gershwin, Piazzolla, Ginastera, …

Dante Anzolini will conduct the Oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten” (The Seasons) by Joseph Haydn in Klaipeda, Lithuania, celebrating the 20th Anniversary for the Aukuras Chorus, Alfonsas Vildžiūnas, Music Director. The soloists will be Asta Krikščiūnaitė (soprano), Mindaugas Zimkus (tenor), Tadas Girininkas …

Dante Anzolini has made his debut in Rio on November 22, 2013. He has performed piano with Kevin Vigneau (oboe) and Kim Fredenburgh (viola) at the Sala de Congregação, Escola de Musica da Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro. The …

By D.S. Crafts / For the Journal  on Fri, Nov 16, 2012 Long considered one of the jewels of the choral-orchestral repertoire, the Brahms “German” Requiem was given a glowing performance Saturday night in Popejoy Hall by the New Mexico …

After his successful appearance in January of this year, Mo. Anzolini is invited back to conduct a program comprised of Verdí’s La Forza del Destino Overture, Elgar´s Enigma Variations and the Brahms German Requiem with the Choir of the Cathedral …

Philip Glass’s landmark opera, whose Sanskrit title translates as “truth force,” explores Mahatma Gandhi’s formative years in South Africa. The visually extravagant production, starring Richard Croft, is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch. Satyagraha features minimal subtitles. …

…die Düsseldorfer Symphoniker setzen unter der Leitung von Dante Anzolini die grosse Bandbreite der geforderten Musik zudem stilsicher wie farbenreich um.

One knows from a long time what Martin Schläpfer is able to do. Ligeti’s Lontano is a stroke of luck for him, as the Duesseldorf Sympohony under Dante Anzolini unfolds a lucid reading in its dimensionality.

“Gespräche der Karmelitinnen” am Linzer Landestheater, eine Oper von Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963) in französischer Sprache mit deutschen Übertitlen, feierte am Samstag als Neuproduktion am Linzer Landestheater Premiere: hinsichtlich der Komposition ein Volltreffer der Extraklasse! Das Bruckner Orchester spielte …

Landestheater: Viel Beifall für die Oper „Gespräche der Karmelitinnen“ “Die Neuinszenierung von Francis Poulencs Oper „Gespräche der Karmelitinnen“ hatte am 24. März im Linzer Landestheater ihre mit großem Beifall aufgenommene Premiere…Poulencs reizvolle, oft nur in Akkorden und Klangflächen schwebende Musik, …

“Mit Francis Poulencs „Gespräche der Karmelitinnen“ stand am Samstag nach 27 Jahren wieder einmal eines der ganz großen Opernwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts auf dem Spielplan des Landestheaters….Musikalisch fand Dante Anzolini einen wunderbaren großen Bogen und ließ der Musik in vielen …

Albuquerque Journal, February 3, 2012 In its first concert of the year, the New Mexico Philharmonic brought guest conductor Dante Anzolini to the Popejoy stage to conduct Dvorák’s Symphony “From the New World” as well as excerpts from Italian opera. …

Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, 24.Januar 2012 Konzert Strawinsky, Dallapiccola und. Co. Staatsorchester setzt mit raren Werken Akzente. …Mit dem argentinischen Gastdirigenten Dante Anzolini stand ein engagierter Orchesterleiter auf dem Podest, der der Musik len angemessenen Schwung verlieh -mit geradezu ansteckender musikantischer …

Konzert. Staatsorchester spielt Werke von Malipiero, Casella und Dallapiccola In ziemlich unbekanntes Terrain fuehrte das Philharmonische Staatsorchester im 5.Sinfoniekonzert mit italienischer Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts…(Im Strawinskij Kalvierkonzert)…am Klavier sass der Exilrusse Vladimir Stoupel, am Dirigentenpult stand als Gastdirigent Dante Anzolini, …

FAZ Rhein-Main, 24.Januar 2012 “Italienische Komponisten des 20.Jahrhunderts im Staatstheater Mainz” …Dante Anzolini -ein temperamentvoller, gestenreicher Musiker, der eher als Interpret des sinfonischen OEuvres von Philip Glass bekannt ist und im Zusammenhang damit einige Verdienste erworbenhat- verstand es ausgezeichnet, das …

On November 19, Philip Glass’ Satyagraha will be shown in HD cinemas in the following countries Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, …

indyweek. com – December 6, 2011 …Richard Croft as Gandhi is unforgettable. He and orchestra conductor Dante Anzolini, with his deep experience with Glass’ work,m seem to have been on just the same wavelength, because the mesh of orcehstra and …

New York Times, November 6, 2011 …Dante Anzolini -the conductor and, necessarily, the hardest worker in the performance, charged with cuing vocal entrances on shifting and threacherous terrain- merited only praise. James R. Oestereich

Da begeisterte die sehr gelungene Aufführung von Edgar Varèses „Arcana“ wesentlich mehr. Denn vieles, was heute als modern hingestellt wird, hat seine Wurzeln in den überaus penibel notierten, rhythmisch höchst komplexen und harmonisch und dynamisch jedes damalige Musikdenken sprengenden Werken …

Und dann die Sensation, eine Hommage an große Erneuerer der modernen Musik, zu genießen im Linzer Brucknerhaus: Ein ungemein konzentriertes, ein fabelhaftes Bruckner Orchester spielte Widerspenstiges von Edgar Varese bis Friedrich Cerha. Ein Hörerlebnis, das des optischen Schnickschnacks nicht bedurft …

The Baltimore Sun, August 2, 2011 …the absorbing, atmonspheric concerto gets a winning performance from soloist Wendy Sutter and the Orchestra of the Americas, conducted by Dante Anzolini.

….Die Aufführung stand unter der Stabführung vom Dante Anzolini, ebenfalls als Gast. Er brachte Verdi mit plausiblen Tempi und sehr gut abgestimmter Dynamik, auch zwischen Orchester und Bühne, zum lebendigen Klingen H & P Huber

Von allem musikalisch disponierte Verdi-Premiere am Landestheater Linz, Krone Zeitung Linz. 16.Mai 2011 ….Dante Anzolini modelliert diesen “Trovatore” in atmender und dur hischtig schwingender Agogik. Das Bruckner Orchester folgt ihm nuancenreich un beinah immer bereit, die dynamische Skala nach oben …

“Unforgettable concert of Glass” (title)…the interpretation was excellent…much due to the conducting of Dante Anzolini…the orchestra and the conductor gave (Bernstein’s music) an interpretation that the composer would have applauded…the program concluded with Mahler’s 4th Symphony, with a surprising performance, …

“The YOA (Youth Orchestra of the Americas) in Quito’s heart” (title). Dante Anzolini, a great conductor…conducted the YOA with a perfectionism that shows strenuous rehearsals….Philip Glass stood up applauding the South American premiere of his Cello Concerto….the closing of the …

“…again a really impressive evening for the Ballett am Rhein, which positions itself in the great tradition of dance, and in a genial way….the performance of the very good Duesseldorf Symphony …Dante Anzolini is a canny leader…”

“Finally Schlaepfer’s Neither. The Duesseldorf Orchestra under the guidance of Dante Anzolini and the soprano Alexandra Lubchanksy work intensively in broad sound planes, the choreographer follow the music as if he accentuated the space rather than the time…”

“The principal section concerned the world premiere of Martin Schlaepfer’s choreography to Feldman’s Neither, the ‘no-opera’ on text by Samuel Beckett, that still was only the sound vehicle to music. M. Schlaepfer succeds to create the circle’s quadratur, making something …

“Prokofiev’s music, which switches between melodic charm, rapid passageworks, lyric broadness and even irony, demands -because of its rhythmic originalities and refined inspiration- highly developped playing culture. (That was) not a problem for the Brucknerorchester, under the guidance of Dante …

“…surely, there could be no better argument for the survival of the NMSO than the brillant concert it proceeded to play at Popejoy Hall…Anzolini led (Brahms Third Symphony)… (with the) seemingly intent on polishing every detail. Anzolini applied his reading …

“..the often understimated Munchener Symphoniker orchestra ws in a splendid mood, played the Bach First Suite for Orchestra with romantic retro-sound -which one has to appreciate once again in the maelstrom of persistent search for period-music sound. Of course the …

New Era Brings Buzz (and Big Budgets) to the MET (Title) “…Finally, there was the company’s premiere production of <a href=»http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/philip_glass/index.html?inline=nyt-per»>Philip Glass</a>’s landmark 1980 work, “Satyagraha.” For me, even during the prime creative period that fostered this work, Mr. Glass …

“Conducting with spacious beauty, Dante Anzolini brings the score to a quiet, magical finale” New York Magazine, Justin Davidson, April 21, 2008

“Those who attend Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha” at the Metropolitan Opera would be well-advised to read the program notes beforehand and then allow themselves to simply surrender to its hypnotic visual and musical magic…. …it is the hypnotic music that submerges …

“…the evening…is accompanied by musicianship of the very high order. Conductor Dante Anzolini…keeps a tight rein…” Variety, Eric Myers, April 15, 2008

“….the orchestra under Dante Anzolini makes the chugging ostinatos and shimmering arpeggios flirt with poetry.” Financial Times, Martin Bernheimer, April 15, 2008

“That the impressive young conductor Dante Anzolini, in his Met debut, kept the tempos on the slow side lent weight and power to the repetitive patterns. At times, though, during stretches in the opera when Mr. Glass pushes the repetitions …

“….everything that reached the eye and ear was on the same exalted level…the Met Orchestra, conducted by Dante Anzolini, an Argentine making his Met debut, let the arpeggios luxuriate. The sound was gorgeous…the singing, from soloists and chorus, was uniformely …

“….an evening that moves forward like a dream….it provides an all too rare demonstration of the fact that new opera can indeed be contemporary art.” ” If the work has a hope of reaching those (traditional opera) listeners, it is …

“Musically, under Dante Anzolini, an Argentinean conductror making a splendid Met debut, things sound as fine as the staging looks…” New York Post, Clive Barnes, April 14, 2008

“…Throughout the work, Glass threads the rhythms, increasing tempi, and mounting intensity of Indian raga. Also, given the profoundly spiritual nature of the enterprise, a listener can’t be dismissed for detecting the echoes of Gregorian chants. Dante Anzolini, the conductor …

“…an enormous success in the Linz Theater…the faithful standing public greeted the conductor Dante Anzolini with stark applause”….”uncountable curtain calls”… (“almost private” section) “Dante Anzolini, who luckily always returns to Linz, gave Delibes’music the needed dynamics to make the choreography …

“The Vienna Symphony seemed to be enchanted with this program, so having played under the very secure and musical bathon of Mo.Dante Anzolini, it gave its very best” Full Review (Spanish)

Full Review (Spanish) “Spain’s flowers” (title) “Dante Anzolini, with pointed bathon technique, and relaxed gestures -everyone was happy, not last the marvelled audience” Markus Hennerfeind

“A time travel with new sounds”(title) (in Ligeti’s Piano Concerto)…the great solist (Nami Namkawa) found a dedicated and waked accompanying skills…(in Frank Zappa’s music) the orchestra celebrated a full and deeply felt combination between classical and avant-garde harmonies with shuddering …

Full Review (Spanish) “Memorable concert in Teatro Argentino”(title)

Full Review (Spanish) “La Traviata, at its best expression” (title) “…the performance just offered in La Plata has the unquestionable merit of having reached the genuine and integral expression of Verdi’s opera…an orchestra that literally embodied the composer’s muscial verb, …

Full review PDF (Spanish) Teatro Argentino gets new Grand Steinway

Full review PDF (German) “The young Dante Anzolini provided from the podium a shiny performance [of Verdi’s Otello] with a meticulously prepared Bruckner Orchester.To get in this house this genial and complicated score such a sound is simply art.”

Full review PDF (German) “Much praise to the conductor Dante Anzolini, whose theater instinct secured an evening of uninterrumped tension.”

“… Dante Anzolini is a conductor who breaths with his singers, a precise and fiery opera conductor from the best Italian School…he prepared with the highly motivated Bruckner Orchester and…Chorus pure joy, pulsating passions and wonderful timbres.”

“The Bruckner-Orchestrer, Dante Anzolini, a splendour”

Full review PDF (Spanish) “Orchestra with new energy…”(title) “….Intelligence and energy posesses this new name [Dante Anzolini] incorporated to the local musical life…”

Full review PDF (German) “United by beauty”

Full review (German) “Tonhalle: A genuine Bruckner from Linz (title). «:»\u201conce could virtually see the springboard under (Anzolini’s) feet\u2026The guests from Upper Austria under Anzolini’s firm beat moved the audience into rhythmic ectasy -Glass at his best\u2026(with Bruckner\u2019s Fourth) .the …

Full review PDF (German) “Dante Anzolini, a conductor with special clarity,dedication, and shrewdness… “

Full review PDF Full review PDF (Hungarian) Full Review (Hungarian website) “Bernstein, Gershwin and Nino Rota would at the outset seem to make for an adequately popular concert, but the result is quite different if an outstanding conductor directs the …

“…lightning end for the Symphonic subscribers in the Congress Center in Villach: Dante Anzolini conducted the Bruckner Orchester Linz with almost explosive gesture and urgency…”

“The concert finished with Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. A most exciting performance, with strong antagonisms between the utmost sublime and the apparently trivial within the composer’s broad and complicated work…but (the antagonisms) melted together to a firm unity of enormous …

“(in Philip Glass’ Akhnaten) Dante Anzolini conducts masterly the Philharmonic Orchestra of Strasbourg”.

“ the guidance of Dante Anzolini…is superb in the elegiac passages… made of such a beauty and wonderful sensuousness….”

“Dante Anzolini….(gave)…a perfect interpretation in every point…” (Glass’ Akhnaten)

“Dante Anzolini…his baton, of an imperturbable precision, brings up a constantly clean discourse…” (Glass’ Akhnaten)

“Anzolini is a well-trained and versatile musician, with a charismatic podium presence…”

“…in addition to being clear and purposeful, there is operatic fire in his blood. The best sections of the Mahler (Symphony N. 5) really sang with lyric beauty, and the Adagietto was heartbreaking.”

Full Review “ …(about Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 performance) Anzolini’s admirable textural clarity throughout elicited fresh aspects, and engineered a characterful large-scale process that attained its triumphant conclusion with panache.”

Full Review “there is an orchestra which under the direction of Dante Anzolini surpass (all the difficulties) from the brighter Satie to the darker Weill, through the rarefied crystals of Stravinsky….”

The Choral Arts Society engaged conductor Dante Anzolini, who has recorded the work (Philip Glass Symphony No.5) for Nonesuch, to conduct the local premiere. They should engage guest conductors more often. …the chorus and orchestra have never sounded so incisive …

“Energy, commitment, and clarity of intention all ran high, thanks to Anzolini’s uninhibited exuberance and his information-packed, eminently readable stick technique.”“Energy, commitment, and clarity of intention all ran high, thanks to Anzolini’s uninhibited exuberance and his information-packed, eminently readable stick …

Dante Anzolini brings out the best in MIT Symphony (head title). “The MIT Symphony’s new director, Argentina native Dante Anzolini, not only arrives with an impressive resume…it was clear at the start that Anzolini knew what he was after. And …

“…the vivid and splendid way of music making of the Berner Symphonie-Orchester under the omnipresent direction of Dante Anzolini…”

“That would be more evident when the conductor Dante Anzolini tensed the big bows of the piece in a very convincing and ample way with the Berner Symphonie-Orchester, which after the soft elegance in Donizetti, gives a non pathetic, mourning …

“…and the Bern Symphonie-Orchester made music under Dante Anzolini with sensitive and creative force”

“…with discretion, elegant and non-pathetic, it left us a severe, conscious deepness that in the whole of additions of the orchestral accompaniment (Conductor Dante Anzolini), the voice, and the dance, gave way to a great tension, that brought the public …

“…the Philharmonia’s energy level expanded as the symphony progressed, affording a triumphant flourish at its conclusion”

“Concert of the Symphony revealed Dante Anzolini, a great conductor.( head title).. A wonderful concert was heard in Belgrano Auditorium. Dante Anzolini’s consecration with the National Symphony featured nothing less than the performance of the first and second Suites of …

“Stars go by without being seen (head title) Dante Anzolini led the orchestra with the efficiency and nerve that was needed. It is unfortunate that this concert could not be repeated, but it would be even worse if the public …

“…very reassuring was, that also the Berner Symphonieorchester, under the very sensitive direction of its Milanese guest conductor Dante Anzolini, did not take its work on the light side….and offered us a delicate, expressive, a really worth it performance of …

“…(Mozart Marriage of Figaro) sounded ‘different’ under Dante Anzolini’s musical direction in the pit: more lively, spicy, and less in love with piano sonorities. Anzolini’s conception of Mozart has high merits, spontaneous freshness, and a touching naturalness.”

“… the talent of this man is undisputed. (He is a) Miracle worker. This time he inspired the drowsy Klaipeda Music Theater troupe and in mere 20 days he supervised and conducted G. Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Nowadays he works in …

“Klaipeda has not seen such music success in years. The theatre that was undergoing reorganization and was on the brink of collapse managed to pull together a thrilling performance of G. Verdi’s “Traviata.”…(Anzolini)… did not despair. Instead he worked 14 …

Maestro Anzolini will be conducting the Montevideo Philharmonic at 7.30 on Monday, April 11, 2016. The program will not be altered. Calcavecchia’s Pericón, Mozart Clarinet Concerto (soloist Gervasio Tarragona), and Prokofiev Fifth Symphony. More information at http://www.filarmonica.org.uy/softis/presentaciones/pd/2016-04-11 https://www.facebook.com/filarmonica.demontevideo/?fref=ts

The final summary of the extraordinary success in Washington: Six evenings that brought six standing ovations. This is a picture of the conductor Maestro Anzolini bringing Philip Glass to receive the huge accolades of audience, cheering the composer and his …

Another view on Maestro Anzolini’s Washington National Opera debut with the world premiere of Philip Glass-Christopher Hampton’s Appomattox. Please read http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/play-dc-appomattox-kennedy-center.htm

The Washington’s liveliest theatre website has published a review on the performance of November 14. This world premiere composed by Philip Glass (“called by some the greatest living composer”), with text written by Christopher Hampton, was conducted by Dante Santiago …

“Conductor Dante Santiago Anzolini and director Tazewell Thompson triumph in their WNO debuts.” A full review of DC Metro Arts titled “Dangerous”: ‘Appomattox’ at Kennedy Center. It can be read at: http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2015/11/15/dangereuse-appomattox-at-the-kennedy-center-by-sophia-howes-review-2/

Under two different titles, but the same content: on line it is “A superb night at the opera”. At the paper copy of today’s Washington Post in the ‘Style’ section, it is “A second chance helps a historical drama soar” …

Maestro Anzolini made his debut at the Washington National Opera, conducting the world premiere of “Appomattox”, with script by Christopher Hampton, and music by Philip Glass. From the moment the last chord was played, the whole audience stood up and …

Timely and appropriate response: art frames a view on past and present circumstances on racism, war, inequality. The New York Times publishes an article on Maestro Anzolini newest engagement in Washington DC. Please read http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/11/arts/music/revisiting-the-opera-appomattox-in-the-course-of-human-events.html?ref=arts

Intensive rehearsals take place at the Washington National Opera. The opera is being rehearsed for the premiere on November 14. The libretto was written by film director and screenwriter Christopher Hampton -1988 Academy Award for “Dangerous Liaisons”, who worked in …

A great concert taking place in Tokio, Sunday, October 25. The first version for solo piano of the Schoenberg Variations, performed for the second time in history, among great pieces of the Second Viennese School. Here the information: http://www.albanberg.jp/index3_20151025.html Alban …

Saul Stucchi writes on the premiere in Milano. Here the link: http://www.alibionline.it/akhnaten-al-piccolo-teatro-una-serata-da-mito/

An article, dated September 16, 2015, on the performance conducted by Dante Santiago Anzolini. The title: “THE MAGIC OF AKHNATEN OF PHILIP GLASS, WITH ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF TEATRO REGIO. Here the link http://www.lavocedeltempo.it/Cultura/Musica/La-magia-di-Akhnaten-di-Philip-Glass-con-Orchestra-e-Coro-del-Teatro-Regio

Kevin Vigneau (oboe), Kim Fredenburgh (viola) y Dante Anzolini (piano) will play a chamber music recital in Albuquerque, NM, with music from CPE Bach, A.Foote and Anzolini. At 10.30 AM, June 7. Information available at https://www.chatterabq.org/product/june-07-2015/