Zachary Woolfe

News from the @nytimes newsroom: Robert D. McFadden is retiring after 63 years and 4,200 articles. "Bob set the standard for a gifted generalist capable of delivering a literary synthesis of the most important story of the day under impossible deadline pressure."

@AndrewRusseth Best in Show vibes

Schjeldahl: "At a Starbucks in Cooper Square one recent evening, I waited in vain to meet David Hammons . . . it turned out that he was waiting for me at another Starbucks, across the square evgrieve.com/2024/07/scoop-…

End of an era: The Starbucks where Peter Schjeldahl may (or may not) have met up with David Hammons for an interview is now closed evgrieve.com/2024/07/scoop-…

@smbahr14 @nytimes 🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰🥰 thank you Sarah!

“I think what people are interested in is passion,” @zwoolfe said. “Even if you didn’t understand every word, my goal is for you to be drawn into my pieces because you can tell I really care about what I’m writing about.” Our chat in today's @nytimes 📰: nytimes.com/2024/02/07/ins…

@Mark_Stryker Thank you, Mark!

I loved "Maestro," but of the many critiques I've read, I think this makes some of the strongest points. The mixed reception Bernstein faced in real time & his own struggles w/his artistic identity & balancing what the public wanted from him and what he wanted for himself ...

What’s missing from “Maestro” nytimes.com/2023/12/22/art…

Riccardo Muti called her “without doubt the best Verdi mezzo-soprano today on the planet.” But Anita Rachvelishvili has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago. nytimes.com/2023/12/20/art…

Callas at 100 🌞 nytimes.com/2023/11/29/art…

@Mark_Stryker With the Karajan Bohème, this is Pav at his best! The Belcore duet!!

Still celebrating Pavarotti’s birthday tonight. This opulent recording dates to 1970.

James Jorden, 1954-2023, the keeper of the flame. I will miss him a lot. nytimes.com/2023/10/04/art…

@conradwoolfe Mother ate

Christian Thielemann wird ab 2024 die Nachfolge von Daniel Barenboim als Generalmusikdirektor an der @StaatsoperBLN antreten. Das verkündete Senator @ChialoJoe soeben bei der Pressekonferenz vor Ort. Chialo: „Mit ihm sichern wir höchste musikalische Exzellenz für unsere Stadt.“

I reviewed the premiere of Barrie Kosky’s “Rheingold” in London nytimes.com/2023/09/12/art…

Join us in wishing Michael Riesman a happy 80th birthday!  Michael has been a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1974, and since has served at its Music Director now for 47 years!  This includes every major premiere by the ensemble since Music in 12 Parts and EINSTEIN ON

visit Charles Busch in his Greenwich Village duplex, where he has a bed fit for Gene Tierney, to talk about his new memoir, "Leading Lady."nytimes.com/2023/09/07/the…

Diamanda Galás is fierce as ever on the sentence given to the woman who murdered her voice teacher, and the way our society treats the aged

Finally listening to this and David is right: Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky 5 “gives the symphony all the harrowing drama — the dread, the instability, the vertiginous sense of being on the edge — of a mental breakdown.” nytimes.com/2023/08/31/art…

Your guide to the classical fall season! nytimes.com/2023/09/04/art…

The indispensable Manny Ax, profiled by ⁦@fafnerthekite⁩. I’ve been guilty of taking him for granted — maybe you have, too. nytimes.com/2023/09/01/art…

And, from me, on Hyperion’s belated move into streaming