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Opera Review
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
opera review
Jan. 16, 2024
An Epic Set in Xenophobic Limbo: Huang Ruo’s
Angel Island
From the walls of an immigrant detention cell to the opera stage.
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
opera review
May 23, 2023
A
Magic Flute
With a Few Too Many Tricks
Simon McBurney’s production draws power from some inventive stagecraft but gradually swamps its singers.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
May 10, 2023
In
Don Giovanni,
Ivo van Hove Can Turn Even Mozart Dissonant
The director seems to be fighting his musicians and singers.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Apr. 11, 2023
In Terence Blanchard’s Opera
Champion
, Not Every Punch Lands
A boxing opera comes to the Met, with a jazz-infused score, powerful movement, and wobbly storytelling.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Mar. 3, 2023
A
Lohengrin
Where You Might Root for the Bad Guy
The Wagner opera returns to the Met for the first time in 17 years.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Jan. 5, 2023
The Met’s New
Fedora
Is Almost Luxe, Almost Enough
“David McVicar’s new production for the Metropolitan Opera gets partway to the right degree of too much.”
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
opera review
Sept. 29, 2022
The Met’s
Medea
Is the Sondra Radvanovsky Show
The company finally got around to mounting the 1797 opera, one of two blood-soaked Greek myths to open this month.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
May 16, 2022
Brett Dean’s
Hamlet
Is Too Mad for Its Own Good
Yet there is method in ’t.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Apr. 25, 2022
A
Lucia di Lammermoor
With Rust Belt Bloodshed
Girl of the golden Midwest?
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Mar. 1, 2022
Don Carlos
, a Dark Opera for Glum Times, Brings Plenty of Musical Brilliance
Don Carlos
’s five hours is well suited for the world at this moment.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Jan. 21, 2022
Quinn Kelsey Makes the Met’s
Rigoletto
Worth Masking Up For
Director Bartlett Sher has relocated the action to Weimar Germany, and he quickly gets past the black-leather clichés.
By
Justin Davidson
opera review
Nov. 24, 2021
The Met Opera’s
Eurydice
Finds Fun in a Hopeless Place
The new production ventures to the underworld and provides an awfully good time.
By
Justin Davidson
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
opera review
Sept. 17, 2021
Review: In
Sun & Sea,
Econihilism Goes to the Beach
It’s all fun and games till someone loses a climate.
By
Helen Shaw
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
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 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
Jan. 3, 2020
Review: A Grungy, Glorious New
Wozzeck
at the Met
William Kentridge’s new production makes its debut.
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
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
opera review
Dec. 7, 2018
Opera Review: The Unseen Great War, in William Kentridge’s
The Head and the Load
The North Africa campaign that the West often forgets about.
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. 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
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
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
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
Jan. 11, 2017
Operas From Small to Large That Bring Winter Heat
Fiery music and song.
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
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
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
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