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The overarching theme of Thursday’s intriguing program of the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, was love. Love for a whole world in distress animated Pintscher’s own piece titled neharot, a threnody for those lost in the Covid-19 pandemic, in its U.S. premiere.The love of two famous friends, Felix Mendelssohn and the violinist Ferdinand David, led to a concerto that ...
“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’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 ...
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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 …
Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
Jan 29, 2023 · Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all ...
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.”
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 ...
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Nov 1, 2021 · Met’s triumphant “Porgy and Bess” returns, deeper and even more compelling. Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 12:29 pm. By George Grella. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera. If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic ...
Met’s “Romeo et Juliette” is très exquis - New York Classical Review
Jul 13, 2024 · Met’s “Romeo et Juliette” is très exquis. Fri Mar 08, 2024 at 1:51 pm. By Rick Perdian. Nadine Sierra and Benjamin Bernheim star in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera. There are few perfect evenings in opera, but Roméo et Juliette on Thursday evening at the Metropolitan Opera provided one.