“Dmitri in the Dark” put the spotlight on Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 6 in G Major, performing it once in the dark, and then again after intermission with two actors and a trio of circus performers.
Danish Quartet Shows Mastery
The Danish String Quartet brought Haydn and Beethoven classics to Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center on Sunday, along with an early work by their fellow Dane Hans Abrahamsen.
Composer and Cast Carry Boston Lyric Opera Figaro
Boston Lyric Opera’s new Marriage of Figaro arrives disguised as a high-concept production, with the curtain lifting halfway through the overture to reveal a group of stagehands playing cards, ostensibly caught off-guard by the start of the performance.
Gabetta Debut: Vivid and in Control
On Wednesday night, Sol Gabetta played a weighty, sometimes chilling recital for the Celebrity Series Debut Series in Longy’s Pickman Hall.
For the Adventurous
The Callithumpian Consort brought three recent works by Lei Liang to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday night in addition to pieces by Xiaoyong Chen and Luigi Nono. The program was entitled “Avant Gardner,” and no matter how playfully intended, that probably didn’t convince many of the museum’s less adventurous concertgoers to show up. Nonetheless two balconies worth of new-music...