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Today’s Rusalka video overview covers filmed performances of Dvorák’s opera since 2010.
While some once-popular Met operas have fallen into neglect in the past quarter century, Rusalka has returned regularly since its 1993 premiere.
“An adventurous mix of music by Samuel Barber, Anders Hillborg and Björk…”
Sunday afternoon’s all-Richard Strauss concert served as a de facto commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the debut of Renée Fleming, long one of the house’s biggest stars.
The Met’s cobranding efforts are really beginning to pay off.
If I were Renée Fleming, I, too, would indulge myself.
The winter 2014 final run of the Met’s first/only Rusalka production (a new one is scheduled in a few seasons) seemed both a nod to the theater’s past and a hint of its future.
Fleming will have only about 700 people to captivate tonight when she performs at Walk Festival Hall for the Grand Teton Music Festival.
Christian Thielemann’s spirited, precise conducting and the superb, sumptuous playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden are the finest features of this strongly cast performance of Strauss’s Arabella.
“If Maria Callas remains the prototype of the stormy operatic diva, then Renée Fleming is the anti-Callas.”