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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Lise Davidsen, Brian Jadge, Judit Kutasi, Igor Golovatenko, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard in a live broadcast from New York
Born on this day in 1910 composer Samuel Barber
In an ingenious stroke of double casting, the Met’s new Forza del destino brings back the Marquis of Calatrava—father of the heroine Leonora, unintentionally killed in the opening scene by a bullet from her lover’s pistol—as Padre Guardiano, Father Superior of the monastery that will take her under its protection as a hermit in Act 2.
On this day in 1976 mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Samantha Hankey, Frederick Ballentine, and Will Liverman in a broadcast from New York
Those of us in New York City who relish 17th century Italian vocal music were offered an enticing banquet over the past few weeks.
Mark Albrecht conducts Lise Lindstrom, John Daszak, Katarina Dalayman, Nicholas Brownlee, and Joel Prieto in a live opening night broadcast from Rome
Happy 60th birthday mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves
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Émigré, unfortunately, fails to do justice, either musically or theatrically, to this group of refugees or to the Shanghainese who took them in.
Chris’s Cache previews the Met’s imminent revival of Roméo et Juliette with three pairs of doomed lovers
Happy 39th birthday soprano Pretty Yende
My sole live encounter with Seiji Ozawa coincided with his final appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, where he conducted its 2008 revival of Tchaikovsky’s Pikovaya Dama.
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On this day in 1959 Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck had its Metropolitan Opera premiere (in English)
From a musical perspective, the evening came together admirably. As a work of theater, though, it was as stale as last week’s takeout.
Born on this day in 1929 conductor Bernard Haitink
On this day in 1875 Bizet‘s Carmen has its disastrous premiere at the Opéra Comique in Paris
Thomas Schippers conducts Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, Cornell MacNeil, and Giorgio Tozzi in a broadcast from 1962
All animals are equal, but some are more equal that others in a live video relay of Alexander Raskatov‘s new opera from Vienna with Gennady Bezzubenkov, Wolfgang Bankl, Michael Gniffke, Andrei Popov, Stefan Astakhov, Karl Laquit, Artem Krutko, and Margaret Plummer and conducted by Alexander Soddy