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American opera singer
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2023-12-09 14:00:36
Florencia en el Amazonas
The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinée Broadcast season kicks off with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Mattia Olivieri, and Greer Grimsley in Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain‘s opera
2023-12-06 18:04:00
Metropolitan Opera. Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas. December 5, 2023.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat Y101, $122).Ailyn Perez at curtain call. The other principal cast members are: The Captain, Arcadio, Rosalba, Riolobo, Alvaro, and Paula.Story. See previous post.Conductor - Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Florencia Grimaldi - Ailyn Perez, Rosalba - Gabriella Reyes, Arcadio - Mario Chang, Paula - Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Alvaro - Michael Chioldi, Captain - Greer Grimsley, Riolobo - Mattia Olivieri.A while ago a Lincoln Center email offered a 20% discount for the opera. Because of scheduling issues, only I could get to tonight's performance.I saw this opera in Washington DC, in 2014, while tagging along with Anne on her business trip. That time I went by myself also. While my review of that performance was just so-so, I still remember a few things about it: it was in Spanish, a young Chinese-American woman was the conductor, the set was simple, there was some dancing involved, and the protagonist […]
2023-11-16 17:00:05
Florencia en el Amazonas
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Ailyn Pérez, Gabriella Reyes, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Mattia Olivieri, and Greer Grimsley in the Met premiere of Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain‘s opera.
2022-06-16 14:30:21
Michael Chioldi/Ellie Dehn/Hilary Ginther/Odyssey Opera/Gil Rose(Odyssey Opera, four CDs) Seekers of operatic rarities take note, this three-hour-plus recording is capably sung with grandeur Camille Saint-Saëns composed 13 operas, but only one of them, Samson et Dalila, is now part of the regular repertory. However, during the composer’s lifetime at least, Henry VIII, first seen in Paris in 1883, rivalled Samson’s popularity; there were performances across Europe, and even though it has only been staged a handful of times since Saint-Saëns’s death in 1921, it remains the most often performed of his other operas. The libretto is based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s play La Cisma de Inglaterra (The Schism in England), though Saint-Saëns and his librettists also incorporated incidents and characters from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. The action focuses on the English king’s determination to divorce Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne Boleyn, and the split with the Roman […]
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