To be a poet is a condition To be a poet is a condition

Are today’s stars enough to sustain Andrea Chénier?

On the chase On the chase

Grand Tier Grab Bag marks the Metropolitan Opera return of Daniele Rustioni with a zippy performance of the Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens recorded in 2022 in Munich.

The replacements The replacements

Second casts in Don Giovanni and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera offer mixed blessings.

“An opportunity to deliver” “An opportunity to deliver”

Daniele Rustioni, who starts his tenure as Met Principal Guest Conductor with Don Giovanni this week, might just be the opera conductor we’ve all been waiting for — and he’s betting on a long haul.

Married to the mob Married to the mob

Contrasting approaches to Regie duke it out in Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci and Rusalka in Munich