Tag: The Metropolitan Opera
Review: ‘Norma’ at The Metropolitan Opera and Live in HD
The new Metropolitan Opera production of Norma, which opened the company’s season, is the most intimate presentation of Vincenzo Bellini’s classic that I’ve ever...
Review: ‘Golden Cockerel’ at New Opera NYC
Golden Cockerel (Coq d’Or) is a musical fantasy that was popular in the first half of the twentieth century but rarely seen since. Nikolai...
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Presents Leonard Bernstein’s First Major Composition
Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 was the major undertaking at The Philadelphia Orchestra’s concerts of May 3, 5 and 6, 2017. Yannick Nézet-Séguin led...
Preview: Bach’s St. John Passion with Ted Sperling and MasterVoices at...
From Tevye the Milkman’s Anatevka of 1905 to the St. Nicholas Lutheran Church in Leipzig in 1724, Broadway conductor Ted Sperling is making quite...
Review: Soprano Ailyn Pérez at The Barns at Wolf Trap
There’s no business like show business, but does that include opera? If in a few years people finally agree that opera is genuinely another...
‘Wilde Tales’: An Interview with Director Jeremy Bloom, on the Quintessence...
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), famous and controversial Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, also authored thought provoking fairy stories for children that appeared in various...
‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Metropolitan Opera
The Barber of Seville turns 200 years old in two months. Performing it in English translation works best when it helps show American audiences...
Synesthesia: Braille and Large-Print Opera Libretti Match the Met’s Broadcasts by...
Opera lovers who are blind or have low vision and want to get materials to complement live radio broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera can...