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Battle returns to the Met with touching glimpses of past vocal glory
WEBMay 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 …
“Nabucco” returns to Met, vocal thrills and spectacle intact
WEBSep 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”
WEBFeb 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 ...
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WEBSep 22, 2024 · NOVUS Trinity Choir Paola Prestini: Silent Light Anthony Dean Griffey, Daniel Okulitch, Julia Mintzer, Brittany Renee Christopher Rountree, conductor 7 p.m. National Sawdust. New York Philharmonic Anthony Parnther, conductor John Williams: Jaws in Concert (score with film) 7:30 p.m. David Geffen Hall nyphil.org.
Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital
WEBSat 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.
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
WEBMet’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 season. Photo: David Ruano / Liceu Opera Barcelona. The Metropolitan Opera will continue its ...
Met wraps season with a stylish and elegant “Orfeo ed Euridice”
WEBMay 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 ...
Crowe, Davies lead English Concert’s rarefied “Rodelinda”
WEBMon Dec 11, 2023 at 1:29 pm. By George Grella. Lucy Crowe (title role) and Iestyn Davies (Bertarido) performed in The English Concert’s performance of Handel’s Rodelinda led by Harry Bicket Sunday in Carnegie Hall. Steve J. Sherman. George Frideric Handel’s ability to express character, dramatic situations and transformation through music ...
Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
WEBJan 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 ...