Happy Ending

Performances attended this season:

Joseph Volpe gala: Conductors: Marco Armiliato, James Conlon, Plácido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Peter Schneider, Patrick Summers, Singers: Ildar Abdrazakov, Roberto Alagna, Stephanie Blythe, Olga Borodina, Dwayne Croft, Natalie Dessay, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Juan Diego Flórez, Mirella Freni, Susan Graham, Denyce Graves, Thomas Hampson, Ben Heppner, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Salvatore Licitra, Karita Mattila, Waltraud Meier, James Morris, René Pape, Samuel Ramey, Ruth Ann Swenson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ramón Vargas, Deborah Voigt, Frederica von Stade, Dolora Zajick (Met Opera, New York, 5/20); Handel's "Rodelinda" (Met Opera, New York, 5/19); Wagner's "Parsifal" (Met Opera, New York, 5/18); Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/13); Wagner's "Lohengrin" (Met Opera, New York, 5/6); Handel's "Rodelinda": broadcast performance (Met Opera, New York, 5/6); Puccini's "Tosca" (Met Opera, New York, 5/5); Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman (SH, Boston, 4/26); Beethoven's "Fidelio" (Met Opera, New York, 4/8); Massenet's "Manon": broadcast performance (Met Opera, New York, 4/8); Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" (Met Opera, New York, 4/7); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gil Shaham: Mozart (SH, Boston, 4/6); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell: Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Brahms (SH, Boston, 4/1); New World Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, Lilli Paasikivi: Webern, Mahler, Schubert (Lincoln Theatre, Miami Beach, 3/25 and 3/26); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma: Ligeti, Schumann, Strauss (SH, Boston, 3/17); Boston Symphony Orchestra: Schoenberg and Beethoven (SH, Boston, 3/2); Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, Johan Botha, Karita Mattila, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Paul Groves: Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder" (SH, Boston, 2/23 and 2/25); Ewa Podles (Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/17); "Romeo and Juliet" (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, 2/16); Boston Symphony Chamber Players, James Levine, Ben Heppner, Anja Silja: Beethoven and Schoenberg (SH, Boston, 1/22); Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, Christine Brewer, Jill Grove, Ben Heppner, Rene Pape: Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" (SH, Boston, 1/19 and 1/20); Renee Fleming (Broward Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1/17); Renee Fleming (Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, FL, 1/13); Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Renee Fleming: Tchaikovsky, Berg, Strauss, Wagner (Carnegie Hall, New York, 1/8); Puccini's "La Boheme" (Met Opera, New York, 12/3); Bizet's "Carmen" (Met Opera, New York, 12/3); Picker's "An American Tragedy" world premiere (Met Opera, New York, 12/2); Dolly Parton (Mizner Park Ampitheatre, Boca Raton, FL, 11/27); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Heidi Grant Murphy: Strauss, Lieberson (east coast premiere), Mahler (SH, Boston, 11/25); Deborah Voigt (SH, Boston, 11/13); Wynton Marsalis (Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, 10/30); Cecilia Bartoli (SH, Boston, 10/23); WDR Orchestra Cologne: Strauss's "Daphne" (Carnegie Hall, New York, 10/15); Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" (Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York, 10/15); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Dawn Upshw: Ives, Foss, Carter, Gershwin (SH, Boston, 10/7); Boston Symphony Orchestra, Simon Preston: Berlioz, Debussy, Milhaud, Saint-Saens (SH, Boston, 10/1); Yo-Yo Ma all-Bach solo recital, Celebrity Series Opening Night Gala (Symphony Hall, Boston, 9/25); Massenet's "Manon" (Met Opera, New York, 9/24); Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" season premiere (Met Opera, New York, 9/24); Verdi's "Falstaff" season premiere (Metropolitan Opera, New York, 9/23); Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert, Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Theater, New York, 9/17); Bizet's "Carmen" (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, 9/8)