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2024-03-27 03:00:19
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; March 19, 2024—The Met has revived Bartlett Sher’s 1967 production of Gounod’s R&J hot on the heels of its new production of La forza del destino, and it has two hits on its hands. Everyone seems to agree that “Forza” is a problematic work–too many scene and locale changes, […]
2024-01-21 07:44:33
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 12, 2024—The Metropolitan Opera’s new Carmen is mostly being dismissed as an unnecessary updating, with what director Carrie Cracknell calls “a feminist point point of view”. Much of this is true: the updating and move from 19th-century Spain to the present day American Southwest, with a rodeo (instead […]
2023-10-22 10:00:40
A very, very, very fine house
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened with Gounod‘s Faust.
2023-09-20 18:16:00
San Francisco Opera Opening Concert
Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto AlagnaSFO opening night concertPhoto: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaStarting in 2021, San Francisco Opera switched from programming an opera for opening night to programming a concert. The last two years were great; 2021 featured the dynamic duo of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton in a richly varied and delightful program; last year featured a bunch of different singers doing their thing, mostly marvelously. This year, we got returning soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and, in what Matthew Shilvock termed "a long overdue debut", Kurzak's husband, tenor Roberto Alagna.Alagna, you might or might not know, has been making headlines since the mid-1990s: the tragedy of his first wife's early death, leaving him a widower with a small daughter; his romance with soprano Angela Gheorghiu and their marriage on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, with officiant Rudy Giuliani, back in the days when Giuliani was hated for fewer reasons than now; the […]
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