Can you dig it?
I had been hopeful that 2024 would end, if not on a high note, then one that was at least in tune.
Dmitry Belosselskiy
13 pieces since 2016 — in 9 roles, at 2 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
13
pieces
9
roles
2
companies
11
years
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By company
10 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Dmitry Belosselskiy.
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Turn and face the strange
How appropriate that the Met should present this supposedly “Jewish” opera after many in the audience had just spent twelve days immersed in the genuine article over the High Holy Days.
Tremens factus sum ego
One got a sense that the Met and the maestro directed most of the rehearsal and preparation toward the opening night premiere of the Heggie opus
Die Frist ist Glum
This Holländer offers neither a clear narrative vision for the work nor a sense of turbocharged drama; it simply sits on the Met’s cavernous stage as a dull gray mass.
Something With a ‘Ring’ to It
Cycle II represented an embarrassment of musical riches.
Teenager in love
Stefan Vinke’s Siegfried was not so much brawny and terrestrial, but heady and mercurial
Strangers in the night
One needs liberty in order to be a libertine.
Mortal raises veil from before goddess’s face
Anna Netrebko is the greatest performing artist singing opera today. Nobody else comes close; she makes me love her in a way that verges on the erotic.
Shorn yesterday
For opening night 2018, the Met offered the creaky but appealing biblical epic Samson et Dalila, presumably as a vehicle for Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna.
Cabal me by your name
It’s fortunate that the Met’s production of Luisa Miller featured the incomparable Piotr Beczala in the role of Rodolfo.