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Should the new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera The Lord of Cries be renamed The Lord of Crisis?
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As the Met gears up for its first performances in a year and a half. the company is already canceling shows in the early fall.
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Jamie Barton makes her highly-anticipated debut as Carmen opposite the legendary Stephanie Blythe as her alter ego Blythely Oratonio. As Don José!
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The Metropolitan Opera announces two further concerts in the Met Stars Live in Concert series.
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Our Own Henson Keys will make his opera debut in the role of Wotan in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Twilight: Gods, directed by Yuval Sharon and starring Christine Goerke.
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The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has accepted a deal to receive bridge pay in return for returning to the bargaining table.
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The eventually reopened Metropolitan Opera promises a swift return to its status quo ante as a farm team for the English National Opera, sharing the London company’s new Ring cycle directed by vieillard terrible Richard Jones.
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The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
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The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
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“The Met Stars Live in Concert performance featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva, which was rescheduled for this Saturday, November 28, has now been moved to Saturday, February 27, 2021, as Ms. Yoncheva is still ill (with a non-Covid illness).” Thus speaks the Met’s press department.
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“Pèlerin Deslieux had arrived to escort her to Carnegie Hall. They would walk over together. ‘There’s a queue from here to there!’ he told her.”
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The Met will be dark for more than a year, until the fall of 2021.
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The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
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