catch our act at the met
So you doyenne may better know the minds of her cher public, she asks you to participate in the following online poll. Which Metropolitan Opera performances this year do you consider the most sizzling Sternstunden, the not-to-be-missed evenings of musico-dramatic madness, or (to put it another way) those nights when you know everyone will be there? So take your pick, my dears, and remember that you are allowed to select as many as five performances before clicking the “vote” box. The poll is right after the jump.
Questions? Opinions? Predictions? Or just general discussion? The floor is open, cher commenters: what’s the new Met season going to be like?
Mr. Burden was in fine form, was he not?
Only Dr. Atomic and Thaïs interest me as I haven’t seen either one live.
The rest doesn’t seem very motivating to me. But I’d go to a Brewer Ring if someone other than Levine conducted
I missed TTR’s nipple ring. I was in Row V and missed it even with binoculars.
Leonard was great at performing the role, but vocally she still doesn’t erase memories of Von Stade. But I guess that’s expecting the impossible. The flowers were neat.
Burden was a close second on the applause meter. He’s always interesting. That mournful, haunting voice was really something. Perhaps Rose was in better form the night I saw him.
While attending the world premiere performance of Dr. Atomic, I sat there thinking how it might make a decent made for TV movie. I think Oppenheimer needed to be made a truly tragic character for the thing to work, and that wasn’t done.
I saw Harteros in her first run of Violettas. She was respectable. I assume she’s improved.
“I saw Harteros in her first run of Violettas. She was respectable. I assume she’s improved.”
Expect Mandryka to send his second! Don’t you realize that Harteros is the *greatest soprano of our day* in *everything she undertakes*???
Who is doing a better Violetta than Harteros nowadays? Neither Netrebko nor Ciofi nor Gheorghiu…
Dina Kuznetsova