Semper Fidelio
Fidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.
5 pieces since 2023 — at 1 company, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
4 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Gina Lapinski.
View allFidelio, which opened last week at the Metropolitan Opera, will always be relevant, I fear.
It’s not hard not to feel jaded about Romeo and Juliet.
Verdi’s Falstaff is a brilliantly written opera: funny, with a complex ability to operate across minutely shifting registers of farce and lyricism. It needs, ideally, a production and cast capable of executing both comedy and drama, irony and sincerity—often concurrently. In its current Met revival, happily, Falstaff has everything it needs.
On paper, the Met’s revival of L’elisir d’amore looked like a lovely evening. And at times it was—a few scenes hinted at what it could be and what it might yet become.
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