After several feverish weeks of wall-to-wall concerts, the approach of Thanksgiving puts the Classical Music Agenda into a temporary lull this week. Not to worry: we have some concerts for you even this week, and next week we will come back out swinging.
LA MUTTER:
>> We mentioned this on Thursday, but it really is the main event of the week. Anne-Sophie Mutter, one of the leading violinists on the world stage, will give a recital of Mozart sonatas with pianist Lambert Orkis on Monday (November 20, 8 p.m.) in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, sponsored by Washington Performing Arts Society. Music critic Stephen Brookes previewed the event in a long article in today’s Post, with the necessary drooling over Mutter’s (undeniable) physical appeal. Tickets are still available.
FREE IS BEST:
>> I am still struck with awe by the University of Maryland’s decision to make the latest performances of its Opera Studio free and open to the public. If the price tag is the main impediment to you attending an opera, you are obliged to get yourself to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park this week to see one or both of the operas the group is staging there. On Monday (November 20, 7:30 p.m.) it is Massenet’s Werther, and on Tuesday (November 21, 7:30 p.m.), you have Mozart’s Don Giovanni. They are both good operas, and many people think of Don Giovanni as the greatest opera ever written. Based on past experience, the singing and the productions will be good. Did I mention that it’s free?
