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Articles Critic’s Choice 2024-25. Terry Riley: The Holy Liftoff. Claire Chase and Juilliard musicians. September […] Top Ten Performances of 2023
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Sep 22, 2024 · March 21 – Feb 21, 2024. Orchestra of St. Luke’s Valerie Coleman: Portraits of Josephine 7 p.m. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Free admission. Metropolitan Opera Verdi: La Forza del Destino Elena Stikhina, Brian …
Battle returns to the Met with touching glimpses of past vocal glory
May 13, 2024 · Battle entered the stage to a standing ovation as Kibbey and Pinheiro played a rather spicy introduction to Purcell’s “Music for a while.” In it, as in “O, sleep why dost though leave me?” from Handel’s Semele, her voice was tiny and almost childlike in sound.Battle’s wit and a somewhat fuller tone served her well in Purcell’s “Man is for the woman made.”
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Sep 22, 2024 · Death of Classical NOVUS Biber: Passacaglia Caroline Shaw: Cant voi l’aube Purcell: Dido’s Lament Barbara Strozzi: Che si puo fare Hildegard von Bingen: O Vis Aeterniatis Gelsey Bell: Nothing Last Forever 6 p.m. Crypt at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four contemporary operas. Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four contemporary operas. Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 1:00 pm. By George Grella. Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 ...
“Nabucco” returns to Met, vocal thrills and spectacle intact
Sep 29, 2023 · Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera. Verdi’s Nabucco returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday in the late Elijah Moshinsky’s monumental production from 2001. The opera is an account of the Babylonian captivity after the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco). It was Verdi’s third opera and the one that made his career.
Tenor, conductor strike dramatic sparks in Met’s “Turandot”
Feb 29, 2024 · Two major artists made their company debuts with this performance: Russian soprano Elena Pankratova in the title role and Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv. Pankratova has sung Turandot in most of the major European houses, but her much-anticipated Met debut got off to a rocky start. As with “Nessun dorma” for the tenor, “In questa reggia ...
Met wraps season with a stylish and elegant “Orfeo ed Euridice”
May 17, 2024 · Revivals of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice are always highlights of any Metropolitan Opera season. Not only is the score invariably refreshing and invigorating, but the Mark Morris production—which debuted in 2007—is one of the most elegant and intelligent stagings in the Met’s repertoire. As the last production on this season’s schedule ...
With an elegant “Rondine,” Met revives a not-great Puccini opera …
Mar 27, 2024 · Puccini is the mainstay of most Metropolitan Opera seasons, so it’s strange to think of one of his works as a rarity. But that’s the case with La Rondine, which first premiered at the Met in 1928, was revived in 1936, and wasn’t staged again until 2008.The most compelling explanation for this intermittent presence is that it’s not a great opera, even though it does have great music in ...
Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital
Sat May 11, 2024 at 3:10 pm. By David Wright. Yuja Wang performed works by Messiaen, Scriabin and Chopin Friday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. If Yuja Wang’s intention for the first half of her Carnegie Hall recital Friday night was to show the kinship among the styles of Messiaen, Scriabin and Debussy, she succeeded almost too well.