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On this day in 1966 the Metropolitan Opera offered the company premiere of Die Frau ohne Schatten.
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Lise Davidsen and Le Gateau Chocolat reunite for this performance from the 2022 Bayreuth Festival.
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Michael Spyres’s nobly moving Idomeneo wasn’t just a bravura triumph: singing strongly throughout, he brought more colors to his portrayal of the tortured king than I had experienced from others in the Ponnelle production.
On this day in 1976 mezzo-soprano Elena Obraztsova made her first Metropolitan Opera appearance as part of the “Met Marathon” fundraising gala.
It’s nasty world, Shostakovich seems to say, where life alternates between boring and terrifying.
Director Barrie Kosky brings to Fiddler on the Roof fascinating ideas, fine casting, equal mixes of comedy and sadness, and, from the beginning, a sense for we of the audience that we were about to spend three hours in very good hands.
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On this day in 1996 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a revival of Andrea Chenier starring Luciano Pavarotti and Maria Guleghina.
Diva of the moment Sondra Radvanovsky previews yet another great role: Puccini’s Turandot.
By La Cieca
On this day in 2003 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a revival of La traviata featuring Renée Fleming.
Sondra Radvanovsky has an unconventional voice that is suited to unconventional characters and is best used in rangy, difficult music. The lack of lush beauty was no deficit in depicting Medea’s jealousy and vengeful rage.
By Eli Jacobson
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A troika of operas by Rachmaninoff: Aleko , The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini , courtesy of Odyssey Opera.
By Harry Rose
Robert Carsen‘s legendary production of Eugene Onegin finally arrives in San Francisco.
On this day in 2011, the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Anna Bolena.
On this day in 2010, the Metropolitan Opera opened it season with Das Rheingold, the first installment in the catastrophic Robert Lepage production of the Ring.
Live broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night, featuring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role.
By La Cieca
For the season opener, Opera San José decided to explore the class conflict central to Le nozze di Figaro by transporting the opera to India, specifically during the British Raj.
