Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of …
Sep 29, 2024 · The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud Doctor Miracle, was forbidden to sing for reasons of health.
Kurzak brings fresh vocal richness to Met’s “Tosca”
Sep 26, 2024 · Tosca returned to the Met on Wednesday evening capping off a trio of performances which included the company premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded and Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann to launch the 2024-25 season. The Puccini favorite will return with three different casts, one as star-laden as the next. David McVicar’s 2017 staging is traditional to a tee, except for the odd angle on ...
A rare mixed night for Trifonov at Carnegie Hall
Oct 18, 2024 · Daniil Trifonov performed Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Richard Termine
Beczała finds his own tempo giusto in Carnegie Hall recital
Dec 10, 2024 · Not every song recital is a lieder recital, but the performance by tenor Piotr Beczała and pianist Helmut Deutsch in Carnegie Hall on Monday, even though it featured songs by Russian, Norwegian, and Polish as well as German composers, was essentially a lieder recital.
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
Feb 22, 2024 · The Metropolitan Opera will continue its expansion into contemporary opera in its 2024-2025 season, with four house premieres from composers of our time, and will refresh one of its most popular repertoire operas with a new production.
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Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a fresh cast under the baton of Daniele Callegari.The performance featured the house debut of tenor Pene Pati as the Duke of Mantua. The role has been his calling card in opera houses worldwide, and it is easy to see why from this performance.
A new cast still finding its footing in Met’s “Tosca”
Nov 13, 2024 · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results.
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Dec 22, 2024 · Metropolitan Opera Verdi: Rigoletto Luca Salsi, Erin Morley, Pene Pati, Solomon Howard Daniele Callegari, conductor 7 p.m. Metropolitan Opera House metopera.org
Three great cities take the spotlight with Parlando
Dec 9, 2024 · Even given Parlando’s high bar for the eclectic, with the program “Sidewalk Tango” Ian Niederhoffer raised it a notch or two above. The thematic red thread running through Parlando’s Sunday afternoon concert at Merkin Hall was the symbiotic relationship between energy and change.
Gerstein’s virtuosity serves the greater musical good with Liszt, …
Dec 7, 2024 · One Response to “Gerstein’s virtuosity serves the greater musical good with Liszt, Ravel and Coll” Posted Dec 10, 2024 at 1:24 pm by Richard Finkelstein. We heard Gerstein repeat the concert in a more intimate setting that surprisingly was also not a sellout.