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Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus--perform Verdi's Requiem. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. $19-$52.50. Thursday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m. Call 266-1492 for tickets...
...recording of Verdi's Otello on London Records uses this formula neatly. The music is one of the best-known operas by one of the best-known composers of opera, the names are big (Pavarotti, Kiri te Kanawa and Leo Nucci, with Sir Georg Solti at the helm), and the pretext is a double celebration: the 100th anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the 100th recording on CD of Solti with the CSO. But, unlike the "Three Tenors" concert or the Amadeus soundtrack, a new recording of Otello is the kind of project that must stand...
...Metropolitan Opera, goes the old line, is New York City's second Met museum. It's an acrid joke, deriding the opera house's conservative repertory, its emphasis on Verdi, Puccini and Wagner standards. Where, the critics ask, is innovation? What about experiment? But the hard truth is that new works don't sell, and the Met, with one of the most ambitious schedules in the world, must try to fill 4,000 seats at 210 performances a season. And for the most part, its forays into premieres have been failures. Met veterans still wince at the memory...
Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey...
Besides next week's Yale Came concert, upcomingconcerts include tonight's appearance of RCS withthe Wellesley Chorus. Next spring, for the thirdyear in a row, the Holden choirs will combine tosing a major work, the massive Verdi'sRequiem...