This magic moment
Look, for one of the most-staged operas in the repertoire, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte seems awfully difficult to stage.
Michael Levine
24 pieces since 2014 — at 11 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
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9 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Michael Levine.
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On the road again
When it premiered at the Opéra Comique in 1875, Carmen shocked audiences with its frank depictions of female sexuality, the proletariat, and violence: subjects that have ensured the piece’s continued relevance and that have inspired numerous retellings and revisions.
The voice of spring
“I come, I come! ye have called me long;
I come o’er the mountains, with light and song”
Star vehicles
This Carmen, in other words, was somewhat less radical than its initial image suggested.
Crazy extremes
Simon McBurney’s Die Zauberflöte, the second new production of the Met’s May Mozart Miracle, opened on Friday to rousing near-unanimous cheers.
The devil’s eye candy
There are shows with iconic characters, and there are shows with iconic characters playing iconic characters.
Stage beauty
>What does a great opera production do, and what does a bad production fail to do?
No business like snow business
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is his masterwork and its themes of social convention and unrequited longing surely struck a deep chord in a composer who, in late 19th century Russia, was gay and had to conduct himself carefully.
The cup runneth over
I am grateful to Sony for this new release
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
