Monday, May 25, 2015
You'd think that anything written by the man who gave us “West Side Story,” “Candide” and “On the Town” would be worth at least a listen, yes? Well, despi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAfter a sketchy start to the season, the Met hit its stride on Friday with a revival of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" that's as crisp as autumn in New York. This farce about an elderly bachelo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM'But we don't see Carmen!" sings the chorus -- in French -- in Bizet's opera, before the gypsy temptress saunters in. But even after Elina Garanca arrived on the Met stage Thursday night, we…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhat 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 women …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNext 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 producti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMUnveiling 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 05:58PMThis 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 05:58PMThis 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 Ala…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA 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 "Mos…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA 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 05:58PMMath 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 the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhen a show takes place by a lake, its director can take several ap proaches: hang a backdrop, proj ect watery ripples on the stage -- or have someone say, "Hey, look at that beautiful lake!…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMShakespeare called Romeo and Juliet "star-cross'd lovers" -- and the Met's performance Thursday of Gounod's operatic version, "Roméo et Juliette," was also plagued by hard luck. The offsta…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe first rule of gam bling is: You win some, you lose some. Still, it's heartbreaking that on Friday at the Met, an opera about a compulsive gambler, "The Queen of Spades," barely broke ev…
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Who knows what to expect from an opera about the Internet? But when Nico Muhly’s “Two Boys” evokes the complex mysteries of cyberspace in a series of shimmering choruses, it’s...
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My fellow opera lovers, our long Metropolitan nightmare is over.
After more than two seasons sidelined by illness and injury, James Levine returned to the Met Tuesday to lead Mozart’s “C…
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Don’t blame Tchaikovsky if his opera “Eugene Onegin” proved to be the least exciting part of the Met’s opening night.
Monday’s gala sprang to life only for a fe…
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The whole city’s a New Yorker’s living room, and as temperatures rise, the parks of Gotham double as concert halls, as well.
The grandfather of NYC’s outdoor music events, the New Yor…
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The fresh faces of Manhattan School of Music’s student singers stared down a city of sin Thursday night in “Mahagonny,” about the rise and fall of a lawless town in a fantasy America b…
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Of the two love stories that unfolded at “David et Jonathas” Wednesday night, it’s hard to say which was more moving: biblical hero David’s affection for his childhood friend — or …
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A few caveats preceded Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater’s performance of “Orphée aux Enfers.” Dona D. Vaughn, director of the production, reminded the audience that all the sin…
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It’s not often operagoers leave humming the scenery, but that was the case Monday, when the Met hauled out Riccardo Zandonai’s “Francesca da Rimini” from the vault.
With neither a to…
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Like the hero of “Parsifal,” who finds the Holy Grail after a lifetime of frustrated wandering, the Met’s audience was finally rewarded for its patience: On Friday, after seasons of me…
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A wayward bouquet conked Kristine Opolais on her noggin during the ovation Friday night in “La Rondine” — but that was the only mishap in the Latvian soprano’s spectacular Met debut.…
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If people know Jules Massenet’s 1894 “Thaïs” at all, it’s for the violin interlude “Meditation” that’s a staple at pops concerts and weddings.But the Manhattan School of Music…
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Imagine if someone left Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring” out in the rain. That’s what it felt like Wednesday when the Met wrecked “Don Giovanni”: an act of crimi…
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Last week’s freak nor’easter set the tone for Thursday’s chilly new production of “Un Ballo in Maschera” at the Met.
Verdi’s 1859 opera, loosely based on the real-life assassinat…
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The battle of the sexes ended in an upset the other night in “Le Nozze di Figaro.”
No, nobody rewrote the libretto of Mozart’s 1786 opera, about a countess and her maid joining forces …
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Like the Shakespeare play it’s based on, Thomas Adès’ opera “The Tempest” is set on an enchanted island. But even with a starry cast singing its Met premiere Tuesday, this 2004 piec…
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