Du Yun is the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Angel’s Bone. Her new opera, In Our Daughter’s Eyes, a one-act monodrama for bass-baritone and an orchestra of six, opened the current tenth Prototype Festival, in a performance at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, starring erstwhile Met regular Nathan Gunn.
On this day in 2002, Juan Diego Flórez made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Almaviva.
Plink. A marble drops into a bowl. A brief yelp from glass, and a dozen, a hundred, a thousand years pass. Eventually the bowl is full of marbles, each one a tiny globe.
Born on this day in 1915 actress Anita Louise.
The first time I heard of Ermonela Jaho it was as the ultimate understudy. In the aughts it seemed that every time Angela Gheorghiu or Anna Netrebko or whoever canceled, Jaho was standing by.
On this day in 1970 the Metropolitan Opera presented new productions of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.
So, give me three good reasons we should not hear Jamie Barton as the mother of Salomé?
“Sondra Radvanovsky has an unconventional voice that is suited to unconventional characters and is best used in rangy, difficult music,” as heard on today’s Met broadcast.
On this day in 1955 contralto Marian Anderson made her historic Metropolitan Opera debut.
On this day in 1949 tenor Max Lorenz sang his first Tristan of the season at the Metropolitan Opera.
Soprano Ermonela Jaho brings her celebrated interpretation of La traviata to the Met at long last.
Also on this day in 1977 soprano Edita Gruberová made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Queen of the Night.
Happy 86th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.
Chris’s Cache begins 2023 with a pair of bel canto operas featuring two artists soon to make their Met debuts: Sabine Devieilhe in the title role of Donizetti’s La Fille du regiment and Xabier Anduaga driving Lisette Oropesa crazy in Bellini’s I Puritani.
On this day in 1981 the Metropolitan Opera broadcast the full three-act version of Berg’s Lulu starring Teresa Stratas.
Following new productions of Tosca in 2017, Adriana Lecouvreur in 2018, and the Anna Netrebko-led Puccini orgy of 2019, New Year’s Eve at the Met has come to signify that verismo, as this school tends to be known, is still kicking.
The fraught opening night of what surely must be this time around the final hurrah of the Mets old Aida production: That’s what people wanted to read about in December.
On this day in 1979 the Metropolitan Opera presented a revival of Elektra that failed to live up to former glories.
On this day in 1966 Renata Scotto entered the new year with a performance of Madama Butterfly at the Met.
Love, intrigue and nihilism collide in Giordano’s opera, opening tonight at the Metropolitan Opera.
On this day in 2008 the Metropolitan Opera presented a gala new production of Puccini’s La rondine.
From Detroit Opera, divas Angel Blue and Christine Goerke make role debuts, respectively as Aida and Amneris.
On this day in 1972 soprano Atsuko Azuma made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Madama Butterfly.
On this day in 1969, the Metropolitan Opera opened its season, delayed more than three months due to prolonged labor-management negotiations.
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