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Meigui Zhang as Thibault, Sonya Yoncheva as Élisabeth, Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue, and Joo Won Kang as the Count of Lerme in Verdi's "Don Carlos." Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera

The Metropolitan Opera – David McVicar’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlos – Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton, Matthew Polenzani, Eric Owens, Etienne Dupuis &John Relyea; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin 

Following a moving rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem by the Met’s chorus and orchestra during which the audience stood in silence, the curtain rose on the company’s first-ever production of the original five-Act French-language version of Don Carlos, Verdi’s longest and most ambitious opera, perhaps his finest. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, …

The Metropolitan Opera – David McVicar’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlos – Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton, Matthew Polenzani, Eric Owens, Etienne Dupuis &John Relyea; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin  Read More »

Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena, Piotr Beczała as the Duke of Mantua, Andrea Mastroni as Sparafucile, Quinn Kelsey as Rigoletto, and Rosa Feola as Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto." Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera

The Metropolitan Opera – Bartlett Sher’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto – Quinn Kelsey, Piotr Beczała, Rosa Feola, Varduhi Abrahamyan and Andrea Mastroni; conducted by Daniele Rustioni

The Met Opera welcomes 2022 with the arrival of Bartlett Sher’s production of Rigoletto, which began life at the Staatsoper Berlin in June of 2019. In Sher’s staging the action of has been relocated to Weimar-era Germany. The most obvious reference to this is the scrim greeting audience members as they take their seats. It displays an …

The Metropolitan Opera – Bartlett Sher’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto – Quinn Kelsey, Piotr Beczała, Rosa Feola, Varduhi Abrahamyan and Andrea Mastroni; conducted by Daniele Rustioni Read More »

The Metropolitan Opera – Laurent Pelly’s production of Massenet’s Cendrillon/Cinderella – Isabel Leonard, Emily D’Angelo, Jessica Pratt, Stephanie Blythe, Laurent Naouri; conducted by Emmanuel Villaume

This Cinderella, a ninety-minute English-language version of Laurent Pelly’s fanciful 2018 production of Massenet’s Cendrillon, is the newest installment in the Met’s series of abridged, family-friendly opera adaptations. The storybook staging – with Pelly’s zany, colorful costumes and Barbara de Limburg’s one-size-fits-all sets featuring the French text of Charles Perrault’s 1697 classic fairytale scrawled everywhere possible – holds …

The Metropolitan Opera – Laurent Pelly’s production of Massenet’s Cendrillon/Cinderella – Isabel Leonard, Emily D’Angelo, Jessica Pratt, Stephanie Blythe, Laurent Naouri; conducted by Emmanuel Villaume Read More »

The Metropolitan Opera – Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute – Matthew Polenzani, Hera Hyesang Park, Rolando Villazón, Kathryn Lewek, Morris Robinson; conducted by Jane Glover

In this, the MET’s seventh revival of its 2004 production of Der Zauberflöte, the company presents its abridged, family-friendly, English-language version which premiered in 2006. Julie Taymor’s imaginative staging continues to be totally enchanting, both visually and musically, with a cast comprised of an attractive blend of new and familiar voices.  Back in the house after …

The Metropolitan Opera – Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute – Matthew Polenzani, Hera Hyesang Park, Rolando Villazón, Kathryn Lewek, Morris Robinson; conducted by Jane Glover Read More »

Sondra Radvanovsky stars as Puccini’s fiery diva, returning to one of her signature roles. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a thrilling cast in David McVicar’s breathtaking production.

The Metropolitan Opera – David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca – Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde, George Gagnidze; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

In this, the Metropolitan Opera’s second revival of David McVicar’s 2017 realistic, retro-style staging of Puccin’s Tosca, Sondra Radvanovsky returns to her signature role of Floria Tosca, opera’s quintessential prima donna, caught in the middle of a violent and passionate Roman love-triangle between her lover, the painter and republican sympathizer Mario Cavaradossi, and Baron Scarpia, the sadistic Roman chief of police …

The Metropolitan Opera – David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca – Sondra Radvanovsky, Brian Jagde, George Gagnidze; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin Read More »

Barry Banks as Hades and Erin Morley as Eurydice, with Ronnita Miller, Stacey Tappan and Chad Shelton as the chorus of stones in Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhll’s “Eurydice,” which premiered at the Met on Tuesday night. (Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)

The Metropolitan Opera – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mary Zimmerman’s production of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice

This Metropolitan Opera performance marked the New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, a co-commission and co-production with LA Opera where it received its world premiere in February of 2020. With a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from her acclaimed 2003 play of the same title, it is an absorbing, often witty take on the Orpheus myth, …

The Metropolitan Opera – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mary Zimmerman’s production of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice Read More »

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