Women conductors still face an uphill fight for representation in the classical music world, but Marin Alsop is changing that. She appeared in Philly for a March program including Rachmanino…
Dalia Stasevska, one of the Philadelphia Orchestra's most popular guest conductors, returns for several concerts in January as part of the orchestra's 125th anniversary celebration. Linda Ho…
Opera Philadelphia opens its 50th season with a production of Rossini's comic Il viaggio a Reims, composed 200 years ago and transformed into a modern marvel thanks to 21st-century stagecraf…
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues to champion Florence Price by pairing her Piano Concerto in One Movement with Beethoven's Ninth, that blockbuster of the classical music canon, heard here in…
Curtis Opera Theatre took to the Forrest Theatre stage for a high-energy production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, featuring jaw-dropping voices from the next generation of opera artists. L…
Whether or not it was intended, a spring program including Stravinsky, Bartók, and contemporary Canadian composer Barbara Assiginaak was a welcome reflection on musicians who have faced o…
Under guest conductor Osmo Vänskä, the Philadelphia Orchestra transfixed the audience with Beethoven's Third after a splendid rendition of Ravel's Piano Concerto for Left Hand and Michael …
What goes on as the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, prepares for a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 9? Linda Holt visits to learn more about a prog…
Mahler's Third, the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, got an exciting, multifaceted performance from Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, alongside soloist Joyce…
 Review of Opera Philadelphia's inclusive  Madame Butterfly, April 28, 2024, published in Broad Street Review: https://www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/opera-philadelphia-presents-…
Opera is grappling with the iconic creations of Giacomo Puccini: can we reverse harmful depictions of marginalized people while honoring the work's integrity? Opera Philadelphia finds a way …
The Philadelphia Orchestra teamed with conductor Fabio Luisi, the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale, and Philadelphia Girls Choir for a much-anticipat…
Philadelphia-born singer Marian Anderson is being honored as she deserved with the rededication of Verizon Hall in her name in June 2024. The announcement was made in the hall's home in …
Superstar American violinist Joshua Bell drew a crowd to a Philadelphia Orchestra program including Chausson, Vieuxtemps, and Brahms, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Linda Holt reviews.
A sumptuous and complex program from the Philadelphia Orchestra paired a world premiere by Mason Bates with Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna's Oraison for chorus and orchestra, and Brahms's massi…
Top American violinist Gil Shaham joined the Philadelphia Orchestra for two Mozart violin concertos, plus two rarely performed short works, combining technical wizardry with personal grace a…
The bassoon gets the glory it deserves in the world premiere of Clarice Assad's Terra, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra with soloist Daniel Matsukawa, joining a Philadelphia Orchestra prog…
For its Festival O23, Opera Philadelphia presents a standout production of Verdi's tragic opera, Simon Boccanegra. Linda Holt reviews.
The Philadelphia Orchestra gives its first full rendition of composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank's Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, and a thrilling rendition of Berlioz's Symphonie F…
Reprinted from ConcertoNet.com - Review by Linda Holt of Bruckner's Ninth with Te Deum as the final movement: Â Philadelphia Verizon Hall05/05/2023 - Â & May 6, 2023Anton Bruckner:Â…
Champion, Terence Blanchard's new work at the Metropolitan Opera, has been getting a lot of press lately. It's the first opera about a boxer, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in the lead…
 Here is a link to my review appearing today in ConcertoNet, the international classical network. https://www.concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=4974
The Philadelphia Orchestra teams with The Crossing for the world premiere of John Luther Adams's poignant Vespers of the Blessed Earth, and conducting fellow Austin Chanu debuts in a spirite…
Invictus by L.L. Holt (Harvard Square Editions, 2019) was named a Finalist in the international Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2021. Also known as the Indie Book Awards, the lit…
 Musician profile featured the Broad Street Review (Philadelphia) March 16, 2023, edition: http://bit.ly/42hWhSX Photo by E.G. Schempf