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Fujita turned to passions of a more poetic sort in Liszt’s “Sonnetto del Petrarca No. 104,” the first of the program’s two pieces from the Italian section of Années de pèlerinage.The opening pages of this musical response to a Petrarch sonnet found the pianist in his pearly mode as a musing melody glowed in the piano’s upper and middle registers, and even the subsequent virtuoso ...
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four contemporary operas. Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 1:00 pm. By George Grella. Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season. Photo: David Ruano / Liceu Opera Barcelona. The Metropolitan Opera will continue its ...
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.”
“Nabucco” returns to Met, vocal thrills and spectacle intact
Sep 29, 2023 · Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera. Verdi’s Nabucco returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday in the late Elijah Moshinsky’s monumental production from 2001. The opera is an account of the Babylonian captivity after the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco). It was Verdi’s third opera and the one that made his career.
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Nov 1, 2021 · Met’s triumphant “Porgy and Bess” returns, deeper and even more compelling. Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 12:29 pm. By George Grella. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera. If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic ...
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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
Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener
Tue Sep 24, 2024 at 12:39 pm. By David Wright. Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera. “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 ...
Noisy “Émigré”casts a monochromatic sidelight on a dark corner …
Mar 1, 2024 · Noisy “Émigré”casts a monochromatic sidelight on a dark corner of history. Long Yu conducted Aaron Zigman’s oratorio Émigré with tenor Arnold Livingston Geis in a staged performance by the New York Philharmonic Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. Shanghai in the 1930s was the fifth largest city in the world, teeming ...
Kurzak brings fresh vocal richness to Met’s “Tosca”
Sep 26, 2024 · Tosca returned to the Met on Wednesday evening capping off a trio of performances which included the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann to launch the 2024-25 season. The Puccini favorite will return with three different casts, one as star-laden as the next. David McVicar’s 2017 staging is traditional to a tee, except for the odd angle on ...
Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth” a searing experience in Met revival
Sep 30, 2022 · The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-2023 season, which opened this week, got a significant boost Thursday night with the revival of a veteran production and two house debuts that came together in a riveting performance of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.. This was only the Met’s 22nd performance, ever, of this great opera by arguably the most significant composer of the 20th century.