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Displaying all articles tagged:
Metropolitan Opera
opera review
Feb. 27, 2024
At the Met, Great Voices and Overwrought Choices in
La Forza del Destino
Soprano Lise Davidsen knows what’s needed here; director Mariusz Treliński does not.
By
Justin Davidson
2024 preview
Jan. 5, 2024
23 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear in 2024
Adams’s
El Niño,
the Weimar Republic’s artistic richness, and Rachmaninoffamania.
By
Justin Davidson
carmen
Jan. 4, 2024
Opera Review: A Maybe-Midwestern
Carmen
With No Ticket Out
An attempt at modernization that diminishes the opera’s timeliness.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Nov. 17, 2023
Steam Till It Wilts: The Met’s
Florencia en el Amazones
“Couples converge, turn away, and re-embrace aboard a jungle
Love
Boat
.”
By
Justin Davidson
fall preview 2023
Aug. 25, 2023
25 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This Fall
Including a fresh Metropolitan Opera slate, a night of Phillip Glass, and more.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Nov. 23, 2022
The Hours
Comes to Roiling Vocal Life
Michael Cunningham’s novel comes to the Metropolitan Opera’s stage.
By
Justin Davidson
fall preview
Aug. 31, 2022
42 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This Fall
Including the grand reopening of David Geffen Hall,
Medea
at the Met, and work by Tyshawn Sorey.
By
Justin Davidson
classical review
Mar. 18, 2022
Finding Solace and Defiance at the Met’s
A Concert for Ukraine
This week, emotions ran high at New York performances by the Met Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic.
By
Justin Davidson
iron curtain call
Mar. 1, 2022
The Met’s Big Breakup With the Bolshoi
“Even at the height of the Cold War, artistic exchange was possible. But now all bets are off.”
By
Shawn McCreesh
classical music
Feb. 28, 2022
Met Opera to Stop Working With Pro-Putin Artists
Anna Netrebko will not perform for the next two seasons.
By
Justin Curto
performing arts
Nov. 10, 2021
Who Will Give Peter Gelb $2 Billion to Guarantee the Met Opera’s Future?
All of Gelb’s big problems running the opera house only got bigger during the pandemic.
By
Shawn McCreesh
opera review
Sept. 28, 2021
The Met Comes Alight Again With
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
“For all its newsworthiness,
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
is an old-fashioned
opera
opera.”
By
Justin Davidson
obituary
Mar. 17, 2021
On the Talented, Monstrous James Levine
The Met’s longtime artistic director, fired for sexual abuse, has died at 77.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Aug. 31, 2020
Lise Davidsen’s Recital Provides the Hit of Joy Every Operagoer Is Missing
A little of what fans are craving.
By
Justin Davidson
performing arts
June 19, 2020
The Precarious Future of High Culture in New York
The pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
By
Justin Davidson
the coronavirus
June 1, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Remaining 2020 Performances
The company remains hopeful that a New Year’s Eve show can occur.
By
Devon Ivie
streaming opera
Mar. 23, 2020
Streaming Now: The Metropolitan Opera’s
Tristan und Isolde
A 2016 production with familiar tropes.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Mar. 22, 2020
Streaming Tonight: A Tale of Two Tones in the Met’s
La Traviata
Michael Mayer’s production makes the sparkly life so unsexy and over-sugared, the last act’s bleakness comes off as refreshingly spare.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Mar. 19, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Is Furloughing Its Orchestra, Chorus, and Trades
They’ll retain health and instrument insurance, but not their salaries.
By
Sarah Jones
and
Justin Davidson
opera review
Feb. 14, 2020
Opera Review: Great Voices and Coked-Up Staging in the Met’s
Agrippina
Joyce DiDonato leads a cast that’s directed at a frantic pace.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Nov. 11, 2019
Gleaming and Self-Aware, Philip Glass’s
Akhnaten
Is Borne to the Met
Gilt is everywhere.
By
Justin Davidson
#metoo
Sept. 25, 2019
Plácido Domingo Played Charming Rogues Onstage and a Monstrous One in Private
Onstage at the Met, he was a persuasive bad guy. We were seeing more than we knew.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Sept. 24, 2019
A Gorgeous
Porgy and Bess,
Its Flaws Intact, at the Metropolitan Opera
All those musical superpowers on the Met’s stage make
Porgy
as easy to love as it is hard to swallow.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
June 6, 2019
The Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin Has Found His Footing
After a few years adrift, the company has found its sheriff — or maybe
shepherd
is a better word.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Apr. 29, 2019
Why You Should Battle Your Way in to See This
Götterdämmerung
The slats are silly, but the soloists are not.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 21, 2018
Opera Review: On the Lightness of Nico Muhly’s
Marnie
“This deluxe production of a lavish opera rests on such a wispy score.”
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 4, 2018
Opera Review: Anna Netrebko, an Old-Style Diva, in
Aida
But really, the Met Opera needs to eliminate the brownface.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Sept. 25, 2018
Opera Review: The Met Brings Back
Samson et Dalila,
With Just Enough
Fromage
“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
By
Justin Davidson
Mar. 16, 2018
Opera Review:
Così Fan Tutte,
Kelli O’Hara, and the Long Shadow of James Levine
A new production with one of Broadway’s biggest voices, and also a ghost.
By
Justin Davidson
sexual abuse
Mar. 12, 2018
Met Opera Fires Conductor James Levine After Sexual-Abuse Investigation
The Met found credible of Levine’s “sexually abusive and harassing conduct.”
By
Jackson McHenry
opera review
Feb. 6, 2018
Opera Review: A
Parsifal
Even the Wagner-Phobic Can Enjoy
Including a long-overdue Met debut.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Jan. 4, 2018
Opera Review: The Met’s
Tosca
Is Afraid of Its Own Past
The replacement for a hated 2009 production looks deeper into the past.
By
Justin Davidson
sexual assault
Dec. 3, 2017
The Met May Not Survive the James Levine Disgrace
He was the charismatic center holding together a company that was already in financial trouble.
By
Justin Davidson
sexual harassment and assault
Dec. 3, 2017
Met Opera Suspends Conductor James Levine As Sexual-Abuse Allegations Emerge
“This is a tragedy for anyone whose life has been affected,” the Met’s general manager Peter Gelb said in a statement.
By
Halle Kiefer
more sexual harassment allegations
Dec. 3, 2017
Met Opera Investigating Legendary Conductor Accused of Sexually Abusing Teenager
“On various occasions he would ask me how I touched myself and then he would touch me the way I touched myself.”
By
Amanda Arnold
Dec. 2, 2016
L’amour de loin
Is Iridescently Beautiful
The first opera by a woman to be staged at the Met since 1903.
By
Justin Davidson
Nov. 30, 2016
What Happened to New Opera at the Met?
Living composers are trickier than dead ones. But they’re also necessary.
By
Justin Davidson
see something say something
Oct. 30, 2016
Scattered Ashes Shut Down the Metropolitan Opera
What was intended as a tribute to a deceased opera lover prompted an appearance by the NYPD counterterrorism unit instead.
By
Chas Danner
theater review
Oct. 26, 2016
Review: The Metropolitan Opera’s
Guillaume Tell
If the gimmickry serves to express some idea about the opera, or about Rossini’s music, director Pierre Audi keeps that connection under wraps.
By
Justin Davidson
June 2, 2016
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Be the Met Opera’s New Music Director
He’ll commute from Philadelphia. Eventually.
By
Justin Davidson
Apr. 18, 2016
The Controlled Fury of the Met’s Elektra
The new production, originally directed by Patrice Chereau, finds strength in subtlety.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Apr. 14, 2016
The Metropolitan Opera’s James Levine to Retire
He’ll step down at the end of the current season.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Feb. 19, 2016
Opera Review: Superior Singing Saves a Buggy
Manon Lescaut
“A closed-eyes special.”
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Jan. 5, 2016
Opera Review:
Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Treat it as escapism.
By
Justin Davidson
Nov. 10, 2015
Opera Review: The Met Gets It All Right in William Kentridge’s
Lulu
More like this, please.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
May 5, 2015
Opera Review: A Brief Return for
The Rake’s Progress
Out of the warehouse, brilliantly, for a couple of nights.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Apr. 15, 2015
Opera Review:
Cavalleria Rusticana
and
Pagliacci
The classic diptych in a new production.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Feb. 18, 2015
Opera Review: The Met’s
La donna del lago
“DiDonato belongs to that elite club of performing artists who get ovations simply for stepping onstage.”
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Jan. 9, 2015
The Met’s
The Merry Widow
Tries to Put a Fresh Twist on an Airy Classic
But it takes so long to warm up that it barely reaches the temperature of day-old bathwater before the final dose of foam.
By
Justin Davidson
Dec. 4, 2014
Opera Review: The Met’s (Very) Long-Running
Meistersinger
Five hours of music.
By
Justin Davidson
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