Looking Back at the Boston Winter and Spring Music Season, 2010-11, by Charles Warren

The New England Conservatory, Boston, in a vintage postcard

Part I—Symphony

The winter music season in Boston made a strong beginning with James Levine leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra in what turned out to be his last set of concerts with the orchestra for the year—and perhaps forever. Levine’s spring BSO concerts were cancelled for health reasons, and, of course he has resigned as Music Director.The January program consisted of two short operas, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex (the latter was originally intended for staging as an opera but became an “oratorio” due to production constraints—over the years the work has been fully staged many times). Levine has led Bluebeard here before, and he has a way with it.

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