Sunday, November 6, 2011
Mahatma Gandhi seems an unlikely operatic hero, but the Met’s production of Philip Glass’ “Satyagraha,” revived on Friday, is a masterpiece of musical and visual art.The 1980 opera m…
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It’s the understudy’s job to save the show, and that’s just what Jay Hunter Morris did Thursday at the Met in the daunting title role of Wagner’s “Siegfried.”
The part had alread…
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It's the understudy’s job to save the show, and that’s just what Jay Hunter Morris did Thursday at the Met in the daunting title role of Wagner’s “Siegfried.”
The part had already …
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After the season-opening spectacular of “Anna Bolena,” the Met offers revivals showcasing the best of current and past regimes.
Back again is Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” w…
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Queen Anna is dead -- long live Queen Anna!
The late royal lady is Anna Bolena in Donizetti’s 1830 opera, based on the final days of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. The new monarch…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:45PMQueen Anna is dead — long live Queen Anna!
The late royal lady is Anna Bolena in Donizetti’s 1830 opera, based on the final days of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. The new monarc…
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Lully’s elegant “Atys” is so powerful that it makes real life seem like a dream.
Emerging from the BAM Opera House Sunday, the capacity audience discovered a perfect September afternoo…
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Even though the New York City Op era's in hibernation until spring and Met maestro James Levine's on the injured list, this season's off to a thrilling start.
The action officially starts…
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Metropolitan Opera music director James Levine yesterday canceled all of his performances for the fall, reportedly after injuring one of his vertebrae last week in Vermont.
It's the lates…
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Is opera stuffy? Maybe, when it's performed in the red- velvet splendor of the Met. But in a less formal setting, with cocktails alongside arias, opera can be downright fun.
One of Manhat…
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It's been staged as a frilly farce, a Greek tragedy, a Freudian case study -- even a "ripped from the headlines" shocker about a coke-fueled date rapist.
So versatile a masterpiece is Moz…
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Opera an elitist art? Tell that to the more than 2,500 people who braved a sweltering Monday night to cheer the Met's Summer Recital Series at Central Park SummerStage.
Seated on folding …
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Even to hard-core opera buffs, Rossini's "Wil liam Tell" is known best for its rousing overture, a k a the "Lone Ranger" theme. But at Caramoor Saturday night, the majestic work was revealed…
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Subtract the magic and the flute from Mo zart's "The Magic Flute," and you'd think there'd be nothing. But an adaptation of this opera at the Lincoln Center Festival on Wednesday conjured a …
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Asinging crossbreed -- a fox with human in telligence -- stars in Leos Janacek's opera, "The Cunning Little Vixen." If only the New York Philharmonic's semistaged performance Wednesday night…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:05PMA singing crossbreed — a fox with human intelligence — stars in Leos Janacek’s opera, “The Cunning Little Vixen.” If only the New York Philharmonic’s semistaged performance Wedne…
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If, as rumor has it, conductor Fabio Luisi is poised to suc ceed the ailing James Levine as music director of the Met, Saturday afternoon's elegant performance of "Ariadne auf Naxos" showed …
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A journey to hell yielded heavenly music Friday night at the Met's revival of "Orfeo ed Euridice."
For this 1762 work, Gluck chose the Greek myth of Orpheus, the musician who braves Hades…
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In "Die Walkure," the second installment of Wagner's four- part "Ring" cycle, the god Wotan enlists his children to recover the stolen Ring of the Nibelung, a source of infinite power carryi…
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IN "Die Walkure," the second installment of Wagner’s four-part "Ring" cycle, the god Wotan enlists his children to recover the stolen Ring of the Nibelung, a source of infinite power carry…
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First witches, now ghosts. But while Broadway’s “Wicked” proved golden for Stephen Schwartz, his “Séance on a Wet Afternoon,” came up lifeless and damp Tuesday night at its City O…
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When "Die Walkure" opens at the Met Fri day, expect standing ovations for conductor James Levine and singers Deborah Voigt and Bryn Terfel -- and mild applause or a boo or two for director R…
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Alban Berg's "Woz zeck," about a bullied soldier's descent into madness, is one of the grimmer operas around. Yet it was cause for jubilation Wednesday night when Met music director James Le…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:22PMAlban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” about a bullied soldier’s descent into madness, is one of the grimmer operas around. Yet it was cause for jubilation Wednesday night when Met music director J…
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Take a sexy comedy, add Rossini's scrumptious melo dies, then fold in world-class singers and a Tony-winning director.
Now pray it doesn't turn out like the sodden soufflé that is the Me…
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Esoteric music staged by an operatic outsider paid off for the New York City Opera on Friday night with "Monodramas," a program of three single-character operas.
Though the works weren't …
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The New York Philharmonic has one of the most sought-after shows this season as it veers from its classic repertoire for a production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” from April 7 to 9.…
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The 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 eve…
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SHAKESPEARE 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 offs…
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When 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!…
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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…
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