A dark drab dud
I never imagined I’d see such a rote park-and-bark Wagner production created in 2020!
Valery Gergiev
34 pieces since 2010 — at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
34
pieces
6
companies
17
years
7 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Valery Gergiev.
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Shipwreck
After tonight’s dark drab dud of a Dutchman, I was plunged into despair.
Il core vi dono
With February 14th falling on a Sunday, there will be no Valentine’s Day Met performance this year.
Let me like a soldier fall
Between them, Maria Guleghina, Marcello Giordani, James Morris and John Del Carlo have nearly 150 combined years of service on stage.
Door to door
The Met’s planned premiere of Iolanta/Bluebeard’s Castle was cancelled due to the Great Blizzard That Wasn’t.
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.
Tonight or Neva
Last night, the Met opened the 2013-14 season with a handsome, fairly conservative new production of Eugene Onegin by Deborah Warner that replaces the handsome, fairly conservative one by Robert Carsen. (The trend is clear.)