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Displaying all articles tagged:
Opera
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
coming soon
Oct. 10, 2023
Pablo Larraín’s
Jackie
Cinematic Universe Got Angelina Jolie
As a stunning, well-accessorized Maria Callas.
By
Rebecca Alter
and
Zoe Guy
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
and all that jazz
Jan. 19, 2023
Lincoln Center Is Going All In on Terence Blanchard
See Me As I Am
will include an opera premiere this April and culminate in a spring 2024 performance series.
By
Justin Curto
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
fall preview
Aug. 31, 2022
42 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This Fall
Including the grand reopening of David Geffen Hall,
Medea
at the Met, and work by Tyshawn Sorey.
By
Justin Davidson
rip
July 25, 2022
Paul Sorvino,
GoodFellas
and
Dick Tracy
Actor, Dead at 83
Known for acting as a mob boss in
GoodFellas
, Sorvino also loved his family, poetry, and opera.
By
Jason P. Frank
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
classical review
Mar. 18, 2022
Finding Solace and Defiance at the Met’s
A Concert for Ukraine
This week, emotions ran high at New York performances by the Met Opera, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic.
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
classical music
Feb. 28, 2022
Met Opera to Stop Working With Pro-Putin Artists
Anna Netrebko will not perform for the next two seasons.
By
Justin Curto
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
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
Sept. 2, 2021
Singing Their Angst From Their Beach Towels
At BAM, the cast of the voyeuristic beach opera
Sun & Sea
performs from an indoor, sand-covered stage.
By
Justin Davidson
making moves
Aug. 3, 2021
Lincoln Center Appoints Shanta Thake to Lead Its Revival
She comes to the institution after over a decade at the Public, and her eclecticism may challenge some of its traditions.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Mar. 29, 2021
Did the Tulsa Opera Dismiss a Black Composer Over One Line?
He says the incident was “the height of racist and discriminatory practice.”
By
Justin Curto
covid-19
Sept. 23, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Won’t Return Until Fall 2021
The organization canceled the remainder of its 2020–2021 season.
By
Jackson McHenry
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
opera
June 23, 2020
Barcelona Opera Branches Out With Audience of House Plants
The Gran Teatre del Liceu isn’t letting the grass grow under their feet, or their cellos.
By
Halle Kiefer
performing arts
June 19, 2020
The Precarious Future of High Culture in New York
The pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
By
Justin Davidson
the coronavirus
June 1, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Remaining 2020 Performances
The company remains hopeful that a New Year’s Eve show can occur.
By
Devon Ivie
thinking about the future
May 14, 2020
What Socially Distanced Live Performance Might Look Like
To institutions and artists and audiences alike.
By
Justin Davidson
concerts
Apr. 12, 2020
Stream Andrea Bocelli’s ‘Music for Hope’ Concert From an Empty Duomo di Milano
The opera singer and his organist performed Sunday in the audience-less cathedral.
By
Halle Kiefer
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
Mar. 19, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Is Furloughing Its Orchestra, Chorus, and Trades
They’ll retain health and instrument insurance, but not their salaries.
By
Sarah Jones
and
Justin Davidson
vulture recommends
Mar. 17, 2020
The Best Operas You Should Stream While They’re Free
A week at the virtual Met Opera is a week without duds or off nights.
By
Justin Davidson
the show must go on
Mar. 14, 2020
The Metropolitan Opera Will Stream Operas for Free in Wake of Coronavirus
Carmen, La Bohème,
and
La Traviata
are all slated for next week.
By
Chris Murphy
coronavirus
Mar. 12, 2020
Arts Organizations Are Heading Into Crisis. A Few Things Might Mitigate It.
Performers and staff, already living close to the edge, have little margin for a long layoff.
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
best of 2019
Dec. 11, 2019
The Best Classical-Music Performances of 2019
A rough year for institutions, a great year for their music.
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
#metoo
Sept. 25, 2019
Plácido Domingo Played Charming Rogues Onstage and a Monstrous One in Private
Onstage at the Met, he was a persuasive bad guy. We were seeing more than we knew.
By
Justin Davidson
#metoo
Sept. 24, 2019
Plácido Domingo Exits Met Opera Amid Sexual-Harassment Accusations
Multiple women claim he pressured them into sex for career advancement, and would punish them if rebuffed.
By
Devon Ivie
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
fall preview 2019
Sept. 12, 2019
Anthony Roth Costanzo Is the Pharaoh We Need
The countertenor brings the sexually ambiguous monarch of Philip Glass’s
Akhnaten
to the Met.
By
Justin Davidson
crime
Aug. 13, 2019
Opera Legend Plácido Domingo Accused of Sexual Harassment
The incidents allegedly took place over the course of 30 years.
By
Zoe Haylock
opera
Apr. 29, 2019
Why You Should Battle Your Way in to See This
Götterdämmerung
The slats are silly, but the soloists are not.
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
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