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  • Satisfied: A bit of an aside, but the exquisite Audra McDonald performing at Avery is being presented on PBS this... 2:11 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: Holly Cats! httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=d63j KihoYRg 1:15 PM
  • Batty Masetto: To celebrate Wagner’s birthday we finally got around to watching the Glyndebourne Meistersinger,... 12:37 PM
  • kashania: Marshie: That Böhm Bayreuth Walküre also features the best of Leonie’s screams. 11:56 AM
  • papopera: oH YES, wonderful great composer, rarely performed due to ignorance. 11:24 AM
  • MontyNostry: I thought there was some special French reference I wasn’t getting. 11:12 AM
  • MontyNostry: Oh, U and non-U … I remember reading about that at school. Didn’t get all of it at the... 11:11 AM
  • kashania: La Cieca’s bringing out all the big guns. First we had the legendary Macbeth broadcast last week... 11:09 AM

Our retrospection will now be all to the future


La Cieca predicts you will be seeing more of the same old puritans at the Met next season, and she’s not just talking about the ones who slouch around during intermission hissing, “You call that a trill?” But uou will also see six new productions (including a Met premiere of a 21st century work) and the local debut of one of opera’s most controversial stage directors. Read more »