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Displaying all articles tagged:
Opera
opera review
Oct. 5, 2018
High Notes on the High Line:
The Mile-Long Opera
Vernacular voices strung like Christmas lights along an elevated park.
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
q&a
Oct. 2, 2018
‘Phenomenal Levels of Denial and Arrogance’: Heidi Waleson on City Opera’s End
“It was loony.”
By
Justin Davidson
book excerpt
Oct. 2, 2018
How Hiring a Superstar Wrecked New York City Opera
The board thought Gerard Mortier would save the company. Instead, its promises to him doomed it.
By
Heidi Waleson
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
fall preview 2018
Sept. 7, 2018
37 Classical and Dance Performances to See This Fall
Emma Portner, Nico Muhly, Julia Wolfe, Trisha Brown, and more.
By
Vulture Editors
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
Feb. 20, 2018
Opera Review:
Semiramide,
a Gorgeous Relic of the 1890s and 1990s
Angela Meade glides through one musical triple lutz after another.
By
Justin Davidson
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
theater review
Dec. 17, 2017
Two Critics Review One Show:
Farinelli and the King
A musical play about opera, reviewed by our theater and classical-music critics.
By
Sara Holdren
and
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
classical music
Nov. 17, 2017
Barbara Hannigan Is a Soprano Who Doesn’t Stand Still
A soprano who conducts orchestras with her entire physical being.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 27, 2017
Opera Review: Surrealism Explored in
The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel’s 1962 satire is adapted for the stage.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 23, 2017
Opera Review: A Triple Dose of Expert Monteverdi
For the composer’s 450th birthday, John Eliot Gardiner conducts.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 5, 2017
Three Unconventional Operas, Three Degrees of Success
Crossing
,
My Lai
, and
Blank Out
all work the dynamic edge of what an opera can be.
By
Justin Davidson
the metropolitan opera
Sept. 26, 2017
A Gloomy, Ragey
Norma
at the Metropolitan Opera’s Opening Night
Lots of murk and bark.
By
Justin Davidson
high art
Sept. 22, 2017
Brace Yourself and Your Sink For the
Mother!
Opera
Let’s consider the possibilities!
By
Jordan Crucchiola
Aug. 18, 2017
It’s Alive! A
Don Giovanni
Where Even the Sets Perform
At Mostly Mozart, an opera that doesn’t skimp on theatrical power.
By
Justin Davidson
Jan. 11, 2017
Operas From Small to Large That Bring Winter Heat
Fiery music and song.
By
Justin Davidson
Dec. 16, 2016
Joyce DiDonato, at Carnegie and Her Vocal Peak
Molto mezzo.
By
Justin Davidson
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
gallery
Nov. 1, 2016
This Halloween Drag Show Took Mozart to Outer Space
A gender-bending opera at National Sawdust.
By
The Cut
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
the notorious rbg
Oct. 23, 2016
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Make Her Opera Debut
In Donizetti’s
Daughter of the Regiment.
By
Halle Kiefer
opera news
Aug. 12, 2016
Ecce Homo
Jesus Painting to Get Its Own Opera
Jesus is gonna watch it from Heaven with his dead, black rabbit eyes.
By
Halle Kiefer
June 13, 2016
This MRI Shows What’s Happening When an Opera Singer Performs
What happens when you stick a renowned baritone in an MRI machine.
By
Christine Nguyen
and
Cait Munro
June 3, 2016
Oscar Wilde’s
The Importance of Being Earnest
As an Opera? Really?
How did Gerald Barry do that?
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
Mar. 25, 2016
Opera Review: The Met’s Glamorous
Roberto Devereux
High-energy cast, high-voltage conducting.
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
Feb. 1, 2016
Opera Review: The Met’s
Maria Stuarda
Radvanovsky holds her own against the sopranos of record.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Jan. 21, 2016
City Opera, With an Originalist
Tosca,
Rises From Its Deathbed
A new hope.
By
Justin Davidson
Jan. 11, 2016
Opera Review:
Dog Days
Is ‘Intolerable and Superb’
“Super-operatic energy.”
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
Sept. 22, 2015
Opera Review:
Otello
Is Back, Without Blackface
Opening night.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Aug. 12, 2015
Opera Review: The Staying Power of George Benjamin’s
Written on Skin
Indelible.
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
Mar. 6, 2015
Opera Review: At BAM, a
Semele
Like No Other
A bizarre reimagining that, somehow, works.
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
classical music review
Jan. 23, 2015
Classical Music Review: The Prototype Festival
Can it grow without disappointing those who treasure it most?
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
Nov. 12, 2014
Opera Review: Do Not Skip
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Why doesn’t this production come back more often?
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Oct. 21, 2014
Opera Review:
The Death of Klinghoffer
Is Best Performed As a Concert
“A score of many beauties soldered to a questionable premise.”
By
Justin Davidson
controversies
Oct. 21, 2014
The Trouble With
Klinghoffer
Isn’t Quite What You Think
Will an opera about terrorists ever not be timely?
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Sept. 23, 2014
Opera Review:
Le Nozze di Figaro
It’s marvelous to see the Met’s motley armies working in lockstep again.
By
Justin Davidson
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