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WEBArticles Critic’s Choice 2024-25. Terry Riley: The Holy Liftoff. Claire Chase and Juilliard musicians. September […] Top Ten Performances of 2023
Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener
WEB11 hours ago · Tue Sep 24, 2024 at 12:39 pm. By David Wright. Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the …
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WEBNov 25, 2022 · Critic Picks for 2023-24 – Sep 11, 2023 “Dopplegánger.” Jonas Kaufmann and Claus Guth. Park Avenue Armory. September 22-28. […]
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WEBNov 1, 2021 · Met’s triumphant “Porgy and Bess” returns, deeper and even more compelling. Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 12:29 pm. By George Grella. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera. If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic ...
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WEBNov 10, 2021 · The Metropolitan Opera’s standby of standbys, Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème, celebrated 40 rambunctious and tear-stained years Tuesday night with a sterling debut—this time not onstage, but in the pit.. The Korean maestra Eun Sun Kim, new music director of the San Francisco Opera, arrived at last on the Met podium, trailing a long list of international credits ...
In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class
WEBTue Apr 11, 2023 at 2:20 pm. By David Wright. Eric Owens and Ryan Speedo Green in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause.
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WEBJanuary 25 – Dec 23, 2022. Metropolitan Opera Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites Ailyn Pérez, Sabine Devieilhe, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, […]
“Rake’s Progress” makes a bright and polished return to Met
WEBMay 31, 2022 · Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (with libretto by W.H Auden), the final production of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season, opened Monday night at the opera house. This is a revival of Jonathan Miller’s production, as fresh and pleasing as ever after 25 years and one that complements this great score.
A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus Monday night with the belated house premiere of Verdi’s Don Carlos in the original, five-act French version. The trimmed, Italian version, Don Carlo, has been presented at the Met several times—Don Carlos, never until this week. This is an enormous work, and the complexity of ideas makes it feel even more sprawling than it already is.
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WEBFeb 8, 2023 · Carnegie Hall to examine music of Weimar era in ambitious 2024 festival – Feb 28, 2023. Carnegie Hall’s 2023-2024 season will be built around some familiar artists […]