Nancy Malitz

Music and Theater Critic. Past President, Music Critics Assn. of North America at Visit Chicago coverage at

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@MichaelBur78100 @laurenboebert @RepTonyGonzales Another arrogant man who thinks female humans don't count as much as males who get a pass for criminality because they're in power: I do agree that this abusive creep is a stand-in for Epstein, Trump & ghastly "friends." Screen them before they get into office! After is too late.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Kang Wang is the Monkey King in Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo's new opera, which Michael Anthony writes about at Classical Voice North America: https://t.co/FWpfQ2tNvv
This hero can travel 34,000 miles in one somersault while making copies of himself, freezing people in place, and becoming invisible. The composer figured that Chinese children needed an Asian counterpart to Spider-Man.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

This time around, perhaps I will see it.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Sting is bringing his beloved musical 'The Last Ship' back to the stage at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House for a limited run from June 9 to 14, 2026

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Hopelessly in love with this video:

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Making a sports shoe out of chocolate

📹Amaury Guichon

[Chicago Tribune A&E @ChiTribEnt]

Review: Repetition is a strength in Hubbard Street’s season opener at Steppenwolf https://t.co/o82VKhSztJ

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@colineatock Lovely, Colin

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

No two concert nights are ever the same, even if the pieces and players are identical, as Berlioz relayed in his hilarious "Evenings with the Orchestra." A recent Chicago Symphony weekend that traced a similar arc.
https://t.co/CggnlVo1xY

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Out of Oregon as told to Classical Voice North America by one who ought to know -- fine idea for a pub crawl: https://t.co/uHNl7AXN7B

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Check out the latest at Classical Voice North America https://t.co/klNJcayVAV

[Concertgebouworkest @ConcertgbOrkest]

🎉 Today we turn 137 years old! To celebrate, we’re sharing our new orchestra portrait alongside a few from the past. Each one shows the musicians who made the orchestra to what it is today.
💛 As a birthday treat, enjoy a special 25% discount on selected concerts: https://t.co/tf09eiOlAq

📸 Eduardus Lee

[Janet Horvath @playinglesshurt]

Good morning. In 1026 AD Guido d’Arezzo created a system that would become the foundation for modern sheet music. His system made it possible for anyone to read and to learn music, not only to memorize it. #music #musiclearning

[Berliner Philharmoniker @BerlinPhil]

🔔 Streaming now: yesterday’s concert with Kirill Petrenko conducting Janáček, Bartók, and Stravinsky. Join us in the Digital Concert Hall! https://t.co/514oyZBBrR

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@ConcertgbOrkest This lovely shot reminds me that the Concertgebouw Orchestra had 2 female cellists fairly early compared to other major orchestras. I think I see a female harpist, too. Influential early precedents. The orchestra was also among the first to invite a female guest conductor.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@TheCinesthetic One of my three favorite courtroom-related dramas.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@mezzo_tv @lisabatiashvili @Munich_Phil Definitely a conductor to watch. In several ways, he reminds me of Barenboim.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

@dieworkwear Had not considered such an occupational hazard...

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Intriguing to think of Hough playing through Liszt or Wagner on this instrument, the intimacy of it, given the spaces and instruments we normally associate with these late 19th-century composers. Wish I had been there; hoping he writes about it in some detail.

[Stephen Hough @houghhough]

Hans von Bülow's #Bechstein in Beijing. I was profoundly moved to be able to play a little #Liszt and a tiny bit of #Wagner on this instrument owned by one of the greatest and most influential musicians of the 19th century. He was Liszt's son-in-law (Cosima's first husband) and the one divorced by her to marry Wagner. He not only conducted the first performances of Tristan and Meistersinger (he bore no grudge against the music) but he played the first performance of the #Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto in Boston. Not to mention the first public performance of the LISZT SONATA! A giant.

[Nancy Malitz @nmalitz]

Utterly hypnotic

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In Budapest, there is a fountain that looks like an open book, where at regular intervals a sheet of water curves to one side, creating the illusion of a page being turned.