They’re projecting
I love it, truly, just not that much.
5 pieces since 2015 — at 3 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
I love it, truly, just not that much.
The Lehman Trilogy had me in its thrall from the moment the lights went up. It’s absolutely spellbinding. That’s not to say I endorse it wholeheartedly, though.
Mozart appears to find promiscuity a source of humor rather than something that is a fundamental problem.
At Friday’s opening of Otello, there was a good deal of interesting going on, though not all of it necessarily onstage.
While the celebrity-studded, expensively-dressed audience gathered for the gala opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2015-2016 season seemed genuinely enthralled by Monday evening’s performance of Otello, it was more likely swept away by the power of Verdi’s genius than by Bartlett Sher’s puzzling, inert new production.
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