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Displaying all articles tagged:
The Metropolitan 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
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
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
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
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
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
fall preview 2021
Sept. 2, 2021
18 New Classical Music Performances to Hear This Fall
Jonas Kaufmann sings at Carnegie Hall, Conrad Tao on stage at 92Y, and more.
By
Justin Davidson
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
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
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
the metropolitan opera
Mar. 26, 2019
Christine Goerke Is a Spectacular Wagnerian First Daughter
Brünnhilde’s personal branding has never been better.
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. 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
classical-music review
Sept. 25, 2018
Opera Review: The Met Brings Back
Samson et Dalila,
With Just Enough
Fromage
“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
By
Justin Davidson
May 19, 2018
Five More Men Accuse James Levine of Sexual Misconduct
According to a new filing by the Metropolitan Opera, the former conductor has been accused of sexual misconduct spanning 20 years.
By
Corinna Burford
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
james levine
Mar. 15, 2018
James Levine Sues the Met Opera Days After He Was Fired Over Abuse Allegations
The conductor and former music director is suing the Met for breach of contract and defamation.
By
Tolly Wright
sexual abuse
Mar. 12, 2018
Met Opera Fires Conductor James Levine After Sexual-Abuse Investigation
The Met found credible of Levine’s “sexually abusive and harassing conduct.”
By
Jackson McHenry
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
sexual assault
Dec. 3, 2017
The Met May Not Survive the James Levine Disgrace
He was the charismatic center holding together a company that was already in financial trouble.
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
the metropolitan opera
Sept. 26, 2017
A Gloomy, Ragey
Norma
at the Metropolitan Opera’s Opening Night
Lots of murk and bark.
By
Justin Davidson
May 10, 2017
Is It Autumn or Spring at the Met and the Philharmonic?
As the seasons end, taking stock of two institutions with narrowing paths to the future.
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
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
Nov. 12, 2014
Opera Review: Do Not Skip
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Why doesn’t this production come back more often?
By
Justin Davidson
Sept. 29, 2014
Macbeth
Opens: Does Opera Stardom Still Matter?
“Compared to their forebears, today’s divas are dwarf stars, still capable of musical miracles but not of quickening a paparazzo’s pulse.”
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Aug. 20, 2014
From One Crisis to the Next at the Met
Now that the Met’s next few seasons are assured, Peter Gelb can get back to making sure that opera matters.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
June 18, 2014
The Muddled Logic of the Met’s
Death of Klinghoffer
Pullback
It’s offensive, but apparently not
that
offensive.
By
Justin Davidson
opera
Apr. 4, 2014
Davidson on the Secret Star of the Metropolitan Opera’s
Arabella
It’s not the singer in the title role.
By
Justin Davidson
vulture reads
Mar. 24, 2013
Your Sunday Long Reads: Harmony Korine, Peter Gelb, and Amish Romance Novels
Another excuse to stay indoors.
By
Andre Tartar
and
Caroline Bankoff
opera
May 22, 2012
Justin Davidson on Peter Gelb’s Operatic Tyranny
“Gelb has only his own judgment to fall back on, and nobody to tell him when it’s flawed.”
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Mar. 2, 2011
Davidson: The Disappearing James Levine
The current of conviction flowing from him has flickered.
By
Justin Davidson