“None of that sentimental crap, okay?”
Sondra Radvanovsky has an unconventional voice that is suited to unconventional characters and is best used in rangy, difficult music. The lack of lush beauty was no deficit in depicting Medea’s jealousy and vengeful rage.
The Metropolitan Opera’s opening night for 2021 features the the historic company premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
Politics and romance entangled in a spectacular fashion at San Francisco Operas’s Roméo et Juliette.
For your listening and discussing pleasure, cher public: the opening night of the Met’s new Traviata.
Where will the elite meet? Why, at the Met for the opening night premiere of Samson et Dalila, of course!
Bellini’s Norma Monday evening didn’t at all improve on the production it was replacing.
The performance and the obligatory parterre chat both begin at 6:30 PM EDT.
While the celebrity-studded, expensively-dressed audience gathered for the gala opening of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2015-2016 season seemed genuinely enthralled by Monday evening’s performance of Otello, it was more likely swept away by the power of Verdi’s genius than by Bartlett Sher’s puzzling, inert new production.
Onegin, which opens the Met’s season on Monday, has taken an unusually precipitous tumble…
After last night’s opening of L’elisir d’amore, the chirping of the first critics is heard.
UPDATE: A video preview of the new Elisir follows the jump.
“Upon my word,” exclaims La Cieca (pictured at right, in the background), “I could almost swear I see a few empty seats on the other side of theater for the Met’s opening night performance of L’elisir d’amore!”
Tonight’s the night, cher public, traditionally the busiest of the year here at parterre. Complete details on the opening night performance of Anna Bolena after the jump.
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