Alsop and the ORF ensemble do these works absolute justice in these readings. Highly recommended.

Only four women conducted the Metropolitan Opera in its first 133 years ending in 2016, but now four women have taken the baton in a one-week span.

Alsop has had enviable success, and was the first female conductor to lead a top American orchestra. She wants to take another step up.

It was an evening of firsts. The trailblazing conductor Marin Alsop made her long overdue Met debut to much applause.

Alsop had Adams’ orchestrally virtuosic score locking into place at every turn.

Marin Alsop leads a performance full of humour and sparkle of the great Maestro’s operetta in Vienna.

On the heels of the new film “Maestro,” an American director will stage Leonard Bernstein’s often-reworked operetta in its “concert version.”

Marin Alsop is no stranger to Philadelphia, and now her role with the city’s orchestra will expand.

Handel with Hammond organ and hand claps. Scatting and swing. Five saxophones – this is Messiah, but not perhaps as you know it. Marin Alsop’s Gospel Messiah had its European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 December, ahead of a broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

[Marin Alsop’s] magnificent performance of “The Black Mask” was probably preceded by a meticulous analysis of the work. She conducted the opera with extraordinary clarity and awareness of the sonic effect that Penderecki enshrined in the masterful instrumentation of the work. She set in motion a purely sonic total theater, shocking especially in the last…

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