Star vehicles
This Carmen, in other words, was somewhat less radical than its initial image suggested.
Aigul Akhmetshina
9 pieces since 2022 — in 6 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
9
pieces
6
roles
2
companies
5
years
By role
By company
Role Carmen
Role Maddalena
Romantic hero
The main reason to see this revival is Benjamin Bernheim’s Duca.
Role Mercédès
Breaking the box
Jacquelyn Stucker talks to Kevin Ng about repertoire, tearing down the Fach system, and what it takes to make music from baroque to George Benjamin her own.
Role Olga
Love me or leaf me
Robert Carsen‘s legendary production of Eugene Onegin finally arrives in San Francisco.
Role Rosalia
I would they had changed voices too!
Chris’s Cache follows up its Gounod R&J installment with a widely varied quintet of additional Romeos and Juliets
Role Rosina
Sweet birds of youth
Buoyed by a cast of emerging stars, the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Il Barbiere di Siviglia asserted a key trait of this ubiquitous buffo: it is a young person’s opera.
Unreleased cut
Recent rapturous musings about Huw Montague Rendall and curiosity about Aigul Akhmetshina‘s return to the Met as Rosina in May have prompted the box to share a recent sample of the pair in “Dunque io son.”