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2025

24
Mar 2025
New York Classical Review

Die Zauberflöte at the Met

Rogister led an energetic, colorful, and generally crisp performance.
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03
Jan 2025
Limelight

Cendrillon at Opera Australia

Everyone knows the Cinderella story but Massenet nevertheless writes as if it hadn’t been heard before. There is nothing false…
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2024

18
Nov 2024
Matilda Marseillaise

Evan Rogister nous parle du production de Cendrillon de Massenet d’Opera Australia

Evan Rogister vient des États-Unis à Sydney pour diriger la production d’Opera Australia de Cendrillon de Massenet, à partir de…
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14
Nov 2024
Washington Classical Review

Macbeth at the Washington National Opera

Evan Rogister['s]... ideas about the score, well-defined and dramatic, came across in his gestures
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24
Jul 2024
Destimed

Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Toujours est-il qu’Evan Rogister s’est emparé avec passion de ces partitions pour les partager idéalement avec les musiciens, mettant en…
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09
Apr 2024
The New York Times

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

On Monday, at least, the audience seemed robust and, as it was during the initial run, notably diverse. And “Fire”…
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28
Mar 2024
Broadway World

Met’s Laffont Competition

The Met Orchestra, did its usual outstanding job in the concert, under Evan Rogister, turning on a dime to keep…
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2023

06
Nov 2023
The Washington Post

WNO’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ reviews

On that note, it was a terrific night for the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra and conductor Evan Rogister, who…
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26
Oct 2023
WETA
Evan Rogister

Washington National Opera Presents Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet

"I’m thrilled to be collaborating with director Simon Godwin; Simon ardently believes that art must aspire to rapture and I…
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16
Jun 2023
Tea with Netty

Podcast Interview

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10
Jun 2023
The Spectator

Critical acclaim for Giovanni at Glyndebourne

Keep an ear out, too, for the conductor Evan Rogister, who went at it with terrific verve and had the…
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2022

30
Oct 2022
The Washington Post

Elektra at Washington National Opera

Rogister’s steering of the music’s violent weather had me loosening my tie, and his finely attuned management of its mess…
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2021

12
May 2021
OPERA NEWS

Götterdämmerung at Göteborg Opera

Rogister’s Götterdämmerung adds a new ferocity, an occasional hard edge and a blossoming freedom to the more mercurial style he…
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31
Mar 2021
Svenska Dagbladet

Siegfried livestream from Gothenburg Opera

Under conductor Evan Rogister the orchestra excels in richness of sound from fear to ecstasy through the orchestra’s weave of…
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2019

01
Dec 2019
Opera News

Die Walküre at Gothenburg Opera

Bold enough to play with the music’s inbuilt drama and even bolder in constantly reacting to its words.
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2018

31
Dec 2018
La Dépêche

Concert with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

At the head of l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse — playing as supplely as precisely — Evan Rogister combines…
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21
Nov 2018
Opera News Magazine

Das Rheingold at Gothenburg Opera

Rogister offered a dramatic and fluent reading that found fresh beauty in each musical transition but never wallowed in transient…
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28
Sep 2018
The Washington Post

Prophecy fulfilled: WNO announces Zambello extension, Rogister appointment

The company will have a new musical leader, as well: Evan Rogister will take over as principal conductor for a…
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29
Apr 2018
Svenska Dagbladet

Eugene Onegin at the Royal Swedish Opera

Musically [the Royal Opera’s new production of Eugene Onegin] is masterful…the Royal Hovkapellet impresses with unusually rich sound under Evan…
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2017

12
Sep 2017
DC Metro Theater Arts

Aida at Washington National Opera

Conductor Evan Rogister sensitively conducts, eliciting tones of insistent yearning that, suddenly, thrill with dramatic crescendos.
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