Turandot doesn’t exist
It’s back to business as usual at the Met, for better and for worse.
24 pieces since 2015 — in 6 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
5 pieces as Calaf — stats above show all coverage for Yusif Eyvazov.
View allIt’s back to business as usual at the Met, for better and for worse.
Although the gold glitter cannons detonated at the end of the act were an ostentatious reminder that this was a celebration of the new year, it seemed that the only words on anyone’s lips as the audience filed out of the theater were “Viva Netrebko!”
There were plenty of Turan-do’s and only a few Turandon’ts at the Met’s Turandot Sunday afternoon.
On Thursday evening Jennifer Wilson “finally” made a belated, disappointing Met debut as Turandot.
Would exciting American dramatic soprano Christine Goerke be the next great ice-princess we have been waiting for?
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