Last night’s cast of Die Meistersinger at the Met, dominated by the irascible, unbeatable duo of Michael Volle and Johannes Martin Kränzle as Sachs and Beckmesser, did much to enliven Otto Schenk’s creaky, nearly 30-year-old production.
Critic Martin Bernheimer has died. He was 83.
Neumeier adapted the story close to home, making Orpheus a choreographer and his wife a star ballerina.
On this day in 1996 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Despina.
This is the hardest piece I’ve ever tried to write for parterre.
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
With help from the Met’s invaluable performance archive, here is a look back at just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on October 31st through the years at the Met.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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