Join le tout Allemonde for this afternoon’s broadcast of Debussy’s apotheosis of evanescence.
The Met is offering federal employees affected by the ongoing government shutdown free tickets.
When a work is named for its lovers one might legitimately expect that pair to dominate its performance but in my experience that is never the case with Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
Now, you would think nothing could please gaycentric La Cieca more than yesterday’s New York Times profile of the Met’s new music director…
“Remember where you are. This is Adriana Lecouvreur. Death is listening, and will take the first diva that screams.”
It’s the final Otello broadcast of the Met season.
Roberto Alagna’s physical and vocal embodiment of Don José lent his particular narrative a complication I hadn’t anticipated.
At tonight’s performance of Aida at the Met, the Triumphal Scene horses suddenly panicked and tried to bolt from the stage. I can’t say I blame them.
This rainy afternoon’s Met broadcast: Otello.
Use bodily force and get your friends to one of the next five performances of the Met’s new production of Adriana Lecouvreur. It is everything!
Ambrogio Maestri IS Queen Anne in The Favourite!
Heretofore I’d avoided the Met’s abridged, English-language holiday presentations.
Hear and discuss the condensed-for-kids version tonight at 7:30.
At Friday’s opening of Otello, there was a good deal of interesting going on, though not all of it necessarily onstage.
La Cieca invites the cher public (not pictured) to hear and discuss this afternoon’s broadcast of La traviata from the Met.
The long evening didn’t achieve the degree of celebration it should have.
Your doyenne’s origin myth must always be understood to begin with the bite of a radioactive soprano way back in 1976.
Diana Damrau‘s performance as Violetta was the work of a very ordinary artist, one susceptible to vocal flubs, poor intonation, and an all too banal approach operatic performance.
For your listening and discussing pleasure, cher public: the opening night of the Met’s new Traviata.
Today at 1:00 PM, Boito’s Mefistofele kicks off the Met’s 88th year of live Saturday broadcasts over the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.
The proceedings took the virtue of longevity too much to heart; the night stretched on interminably.
Alexander Birch Elliott‘ s dynamic if gauche Zurga added some pizzazz to an otherwise bland evening.
At 7:30 this PM, join the parterrians to hear and to discuss the Met’s broadcast of this gorgeous Bizet score.
There are shows with iconic characters, and there are shows with iconic characters playing iconic characters.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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