New York Classical Review
The second half, “Darkness in Light,” continued the theme of duality with works by Messiaen, Crumb, Heggie, and others, interspersed with narration and poetry by Hope Boykin.
Superb singing in “Rigoletto” highlights return of Met’s Weimar …
2024年10月1日 · Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening in Bartlett Sher’s production, which was first seen on New Year’s Eve 2021. The main draw then, as now, was Quinn Kelsey in the title role. He certainly has his fans. When Kelsey appeared on stage during the Preludio, a crack of applause shattered the mood.
Met’s “Magic Flute” brings a double helping of Mozartian holiday …
2024年12月13日 · The days are shortening, the air is chilly, and festive lights are going up. That means it’s time for the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday performance of The Magic Flute.This is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, compressed into one continuous act of under two hours, translated into English by J.D. McClatchy, and using Julie Taymor’s previous production for the full opera.
Davidsen is the Leonora of a lifetime in the Met’s bleak, wartime …
2024年2月27日 · 6 Responses to “Davidsen is the Leonora of a lifetime in the Met’s bleak, wartime “La Forza”” Posted Feb 27, 2024 at 2:25 pm by ANTONIO GONZALEZ. I heard the broadcast over the radio, neither the conducting nor the singers were worth anything.
Battle returns to the Met with touching glimpses of past vocal glory
2024年5月13日 · 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.”
SongStudio young artists bring light to darkness
4 天之前 · SongStudio tenor Matthew McKinney and pianist Corey Silberstein performed Gerald Finzi’s “The Comet at Yell’ham” Sunday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor On Sunday evening, SongStudio presented a theatrically inspired vocal recital at …
Dramatic moments yet Met’s “Trovatore”still a work in progress
2024年10月30日 · This current stretch of the Metropolitan Opera’s season is all meat and potatoes, dense with revivals of Puccini and Verdi—Rigoletto, Tosca, La Bohème—for the next month.And meat and potatoes are good, but a steady diet is going to require good seasoning and expert cooking to keep it interesting.
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Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of …
2024年9月29日 · The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud Doctor Miracle, was forbidden to sing for reasons of health.
A new cast still finding its footing in Met’s “Tosca”
2024年11月13日 · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results.