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Westchester County, New York
As seen in: The New Criterion, The New York Times, Financial Times, PLOS, Travel + Leisure, Sentinel-Tribune, Musical America, Classical Voice North America
Roving classical music and opera critic. Musicologist. Sometime white shoe lawyer. Proud Michiganian and Yalie.
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New to The New Criterion ?

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By George Loomis Verified, Charles Hill, Anatoly Grablevsky
| The New Criterion Verified
From a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio by the Cleveland Orchestra in May 2026. Photo: Yevhen Gulenko/The Cleveland Orchestra. Cleaving to “Fidelio” Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Since 2009, when the Cleveland Orchestra embarked on a Mozart–Da Ponte program with Le nozze di Figaro, the orchestra’s music director, Franz Welser-Möst, has ended each season with concert performances of an opera.
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New to The New Criterion ?

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By George Loomis Verified, James Tuttleton, Robert Erickson
| The New Criterion Verified
Haymarket Opera Company bowing after a performance of Hasse’s Semele. Photo: Haymarket Opera Company & Elliot Mandel. Hasse’s heyday Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Last summer, Chicago’s Haymarket Opera Company made history with the American professional stage premiere of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, an opera first performed in Naples in February 1730.
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New to The New Criterion ?

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By George Loomis Verified, Robert Erickson, Hadley Arkes
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Ricardo Muti leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on March 26, 2026. Photo: Todd Rosenberg. The Sicilian side of Chicago Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life, returned to the city’s Orchestra Hall in late March for two subscription programs.
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