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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.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has accepted a deal to receive bridge pay in return for returning to the bargaining table.
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.
The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
“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.”
The Met will be dark for more than a year, until the fall of 2021.
The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
La Cieca has heard that Columbia Artists Management Inc. will cease operations on Monday, August 31.
New York City Opera (remember them?) have announced a program for spring 2021, with repertoire consistent with the company’s recent policy of equal-opportunity pandering.
The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s lavish outdoor concert series continues with Aida featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anita Rachvelishvili.
Stay tuned as La Cieca attends this Zoom press conference with Peter Gelb and special guest zoomers.
James Levine is back, or at least is scheduled to be back!
Opening tonight at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a staged but socially distanced version of La traviata.
This series of concerts offered role debuts (of a kind) for Anna Netrebko as Elisabetta and Yusif Eyvazov as Carlo.
San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago have announced the cancellation of their respective 2020 fall seasons.
The Metropolitan Opera is heading for a very rocky couple of years.
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the company has made the difficult decision to cancel the first few months of its 2020–21 season, based on current information regarding the ongoing health crisis. The new season is now scheduled to begin on December 31, 2020, with a special gala performance, the details of which will be shared at a later date.
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream what it is billing as an “At-Home Gala” on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT, featuring performances by many of the company’s most prominent artists, live from their own quarantines around the world.
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