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“Fedora” returns to Met after 25 years in a sumptuous, richly sung ...
Jan 1, 2023 · Fedora returned to the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve after 25 years.A glamorous diva with a sumptuous voice and a dashing romantic tenor is what it takes to make Giordano’s melody-strewn melodrama take flight.
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Nov 1, 2021 · If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic shutdown of 2020, then the Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Porgy and Bess, which opened at Sunday’s matinée, is a positive result of the pandemic.. This production, directed by James Robinson, debuted in the fall of 2019.
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
Feb 22, 2024 · The Metropolitan Opera will continue its expansion into contemporary opera in its 2024-2025 season, with four house premieres from composers of our time, and will refresh one of its most popular repertoire operas with a new production.
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About. New York Classical Review was launched September 1, 2013 by Lawrence A. Johnson. Editor. Lawrence A. Johnson Lawrence A. Johnson is the former classical music critic of the Miami Herald, and, prior to that, classical music writer at the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
An ailing Flórez still makes it a great night at Carnegie
Nov 30, 2023 · 4 Responses to “An ailing Flórez still makes it a great night at Carnegie” Posted Dec 01, 2023 at 12:24 am by B.-L. (Les) Lee. My wife and I were enchanted by such pristine and sunbeam-like voice of Juan Diego Florez’s.
Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital
May 11, 2024 · 2 Responses to “Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital” Posted May 12, 2024 at 4:09 pm by Walter Tyza. Saw her at the sold out Gillmore Piano Festival in Kalamazoo Michigan two nights previous to the Carnegie gig.
Battle returns to the Met with touching glimpses of past vocal glory
May 13, 2024 · Battle entered the stage to a standing ovation as Kibbey and Pinheiro played a rather spicy introduction to Purcell’s “Music for a while.” In it, as in “O, sleep why dost though leave me?” from Handel’s Semele, her voice was tiny and almost childlike in sound.Battle’s wit and a somewhat fuller tone served her well in Purcell’s “Man is for the woman made.”
A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in …
Mar 1, 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus Monday night with the belated house premiere of Verdi’s Don Carlos in the original, five-act French version. The trimmed, Italian version, Don Carlo, has been presented at the Met several times—Don Carlos, never until this week. This is an enormous work, and the complexity of ideas makes it feel even more sprawling than it already is.
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April 22 – Mar 21, 2024. Trio Wanderer Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor Lili Boulanger: D’un Soir triste – D’un Matin de Printemps Mel Bonis: Soir, Matin Ravel: Piano Trio 6 p.m. Bargemusic. April 23. Metropolitan Opera Adams: El Niño Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, J’Nai Bridges