Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY to Return to the Metropolitan Opera This Month
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly will return to the Met stage for 16 performances, starting January 11.
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VIDEO: Get A First Look At The Met's New Production of CARMEN
Get a first look at The Met Opera's highly anticipated new production of Carmen.
Review Roundup: Critics Sound Off On CARMEN at The Met Opera
What did critics think of The Met's new production of Carmen? In her highly anticipated Met debut, Cracknell reinvigorates the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to modern day and explores themes that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labo
The Met: Live In HD 2023–24 Season Continues With FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONA
Don't miss the live transmission of Daniel Catán's 1996 opera Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish-language opera at the Met in nearly a century.
Review: Magical Realism of Daniel Catan's FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS Spellbinds Audience in Met Debut
Just as the Met’s debut of Mexican composer Daniel Catan’s FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS (FLORENCE IN THE AMAZON) began the other day, a member of the audience yelled out “Viva la ópera en español!” (“Long live opera in Spanish!”).
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Lyric Opera Of Kansas City
Now being performed at the Kauffman Center and concluding this weekend is a wonderful rendition by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s final composition together, “The Sound of Music” This production is as good as it gets.
Review: Met Revival of BALLO IN MASCHERA Opens in Alden Production
One of the troubles of being a major institution like the Met is that when they produce a new production of a major opera--and Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, which opened in revival the other night, certainly falls into that category--it’s an expensive undertaking.
Review: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI at Lyric
Lyric season opens with a double does of opera vérité
Review: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN at Metropolitan Opera
Thomas Guggeis, the young German conductor making his Met debut, is Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Berlin and the designated Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Frankfurt; pretty impressive for one who has yet to hit his 30th birthday! His Met debut was justly anticipated, as across Europe he is k
Review: Thar's Gold – DAS RHEINGOLD – at Atlanta Opera in Tomer Zvulun's Entry into 'The Ring'
There are no supernatural women arriving on horseback to escort slain warriors to the afterlife--just a trio of mermaids, a couple of giants and a loveless dwarf, along with a bunch of gods, demi-gods and grotesque humans in Richard Wagner’s DAS RHEINGOLD, the first part of the composer’s Ring c
Review Roundup: Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION at the Metropolitan Opera
Following its Metropolitan Opera premiere on April 10th, Terence Blanchard's opera Champion, based on the true story of the troubled former middleweight boxing champion Emile Griffith, continues with nine performances running through May 13.
Review: In This Corner – Terence Blanchard's CHAMPION Arrives at the Met with Ryan Speedo Green
In search of new audiences, the Met has followed Terence Blanchard’s FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES with the jazz musician/composer’s first opera, CHAMPION, the story of closeted boxer Emile Griffith’s rise and fall from grace.
Review: Wonderful Music, Marvelous Performances in Met's Season Debut of ROSENKAVALIER
It took Richard Strauss only about 100 minutes apiece (with no breaks) to tell the lurid tale of SALOME and the tragedy of ELEKTRA.
Annette Bening, Laura Dern, Michael C. Hall, and More Join WAR UNFOLDING Documentary
Sypher Studios have announced its upcoming documentary, War Unfolding, narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening and featuring an all-star cast including Eliza Bennett, Rachel Bloom, Gary Cole, Abigail Cowen, Oscar-winner Laura Dern, Monique Edwards, SAG Award winner Michael C.
Review: Are Met Audiences Blue? Yes, Because TRAVIATA Has an Angel
Soprano Angel Blue’s Violetta didn’t seem as tragic as we’re used to seeing in Verdi’s masterwork and maybe that's right.
Sonya Yoncheva to Star in Bellini's NORMA at the Met in February
After her highly acclaimed performances as Fedora earlier this month, soprano Sonya Yoncheva will return on February 28 for her Met role debut as the fearless title priestess of Bellini’s scorching bel canto drama Norma.
Review: Met Audience Tips Its Hat to FEDORA on New Year's Eve
Musicologist Joseph Kerman is probably most widely remembered for calling Puccini’s TOSCA “a shabby little shocker.
Review: DON CARLO Returns to the Met, This Time in Italian
Last season, the company gave its first presentation of the French version (that’s the one called DON CARLOS, with a final S to his first name), in the five-act version that lasted almost 5 hours.
Interview: Inside Paul Moravec's 'Method' of Composing A NATION OF OTHERS
When Paul Moravec calls himself as “a sort of Method composer,” in describing his work on A NATION OF OTHERS, commissioned for the Oratorio Society of NY, debuting at Carnegie Hall on Nov.
Tenor Allan Clayton to Star Benjamin Britten's PETER GRIMES The Met Beginning This Month
Tenor Allan Clayton, who made his acclaimed Met debut in the title role of Brett Dean’s Hamlet last season, will headline Britten’s haunting masterpiece Peter Grimes when the work returns to the Met for eight performances October 16–November 12, 2022.
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