I don’t sleep, I dream I don’t sleep, I dream

Bellini blossomed over us like a love fest.

By February 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM
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Mourning becomes Iphigenia Mourning becomes Iphigenia

Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), the occasion of his Paris debut, gets far less respect than her sequel, Iphigénie en Tauride.

By February 11, 2015 at 12:06 PM
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The Met: Can it be saved? The Met: Can it be saved?

Short answer: yes. But let’s begin by dismissing the a blatant canard. One thing that the Metropolitan Opera does not need to do is to scale back the number of performances in a season.

By March 27, 2014 at 8:00 AM
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Prima la musica e mai le parole

The career of Sondra Radvanovsky has had an odd trajectory. A veteran of the National Council Auditions and the Lindemann Young Artists program, much of her work has centered on the Metropolitan Opera, which her press materials call her “home” theater. Yet her early career there was slow in starting. After numerous Aida Priestesses, around…

By May 03, 2011 at 5:01 PM
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