Everybody dance now
Austin McCormack‘s lascivious choreography outshone a tepid and tedious staging of Saint-Saëns’s old-testament epic.
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Die, die my darlings
The year 2020 marks the first staged performances of Turandot on Anna Netrebko‘s schedule. She introduces her complete interpretation at the Bayerische Staatsoper January 28 and 31 and February 3.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
Out of the ordinary
On this day in 1951 soprano Victoria de los Angeles made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Marguerite.
Broadcast: Falstaff
A sunny opera for an overcast afternoon: the Met’s broadcast of Falstaff begins at 1:00 PM.
Got to get you into my wife
On this day in 1991 soprano Renée Fleming made her impromptu Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Countess Almaviva.
Five times a lady
On this day in 1956 Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, to run 2,717 performances.
Broadcast: Das Rheingold
The Entry of the Cher Public into Valhalla begins at 7:55 PM.
Hair apparent
Gregory Kunde will sing Samson in the March 16, 19, and 23 performances of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who is ill.
Down Argentine way
“Trove Thursday” drafts a 1960s All-Star team for Verdi’s Il Trovatore broadcast from the Teatro Colón.
Where have all the flowers gone?
On this day in 1991, a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal premiered at the Metropolitan Opera.
It takes a woman
Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Grande dame
Happy 90th birthday mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias.
Turning over an old leaf
Is there any opera that can take more of a beating while still making an impact than Eugene Onegin?
Lend me a druid
With four hours’ notice and no stage rehearsal, soprano Marisa Galvany went on, making her Met debut as Norma.
Al passato, ben vedete, ora è inutile pensar
Jonas Kaufmann demonstrates his current work ethic.
They love a piano
It’s difficult to reconcile what Schlather writes with what we see onstage, which is a jumble not only of pianos, but of periods and concepts.
Take the long way Rome
On this day in 1985 Giuseppe Sinopoli made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tosca.
Domino theory
The Metropolitan Opera delivers on the promise of Wagner’s Gesamtkunswerk in a revival of Robert Lepage’s Ring.
It takes a long pull to get there
On this day in 1953 a revival of Porgy and Bess opened a 305-performance run at the Ziegfeld Theatre.
Cryptic
Hearing Lucas Meachem perform Kindertotenlieder in the crypt of Harlem’s Church of the Intercession was a heart-warming, and ultimately uplifting experience.
Where the boys are
Born on this day in composer Samuel Barber (1910) and conductor Thomas Schippers (1930).