Math is hard, even for Met master mind Peter Gelb. The company's general manager kicked off his season preview last week boasting that, since he took office in 2006, the average age of th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:31PMAt a time of life when most opera singers can barely re member their glory days, 70-year-old Placido Domingo is still giving performances singers half his age could be proud of. The legen…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:27AMA milestone in history, a hyped Met premiere and a gaggle of A-list artists added up to something less than a sensation Wednesday night when the Metropolitan Opera offered its first performa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:06PMA blizzard seemed an incongru ous prelude to an opera set in sizzling biblical Egypt, but the trudge through snowy SoHo on Wednesday night paid off with a glimpse of the intriguing new "Mosh…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:38PMNo sooner had the cheers faded for James Levine’s arrival at the Met podium Thursday than a shout rang out from the balcony: "Bravo, maestro!"— sparking a second ovation warmer than the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:39PMThis year may go down as one filled with surprises at the Met, kicking off with an unexpected role for a familiar tenor and a dazzling debut for a budding superstar. The tenor is Roberto …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:02PMThis year may go down as one filled with surprises at the Met, kicking off with an unexpected role for a familiar tenor and a dazzling debut for a budding superstar. The tenor is Roberto Al…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:19PMUnveiling a new "La Traviata" Friday night to a starry audience including Natalie Portman and Vanessa Redgrave, the Met triumphed with the most moving and exciting Verdi production in years.…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:22PMThe decades-overdue debut of Sir Simon Rattle at the Met Friday night demonstrated brilliantly just what we've been missing: His conducting of "Pelléas et Mélisande" is the musical pinnacl…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:06PMNext year's centennial of Tennessee Wil liams' birth got off to an early start Wednesday with a revival of Lee Hoiby's "Summer and Smoke." But while the Manhattan School of Music's productio…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMA century after its world premiere, "La Fanciulla del West" ("The Girl of the Golden West") returned to the Met Monday night in a performance more dutiful than golden. The 1910 debut of P…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:20AMA century after its world premiere, “La Fanciulla del West” (“The Girl of the Golden West”) returned to the Met Monday night in a performance more dutiful than golden. The 1910 debu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:43PMA flawed Verdi masterpiece inspired a superb performance Monday night when the Met unveiled its new, richly cerebral production of “Don Carlo.” Spanish history inspired this saga of the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 03:15PMWhat do you call a sex comedy that's neither funny nor sexy? At the Met on Tuesday night, you'd have called it "Cosi Fan Tutte." The theme of the opera is revealed in the title: "All wome…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:01AMFollowing up on its brassy season opener, Bernstein's "A Quiet Place," New York City Opera is charming audiences with "Intermezzo," a comedy inspired by a real-life episode in the life of th…
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