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 …
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 …
A rare mixed night for Trifonov at Carnegie Hall
Oct 18, 2024 · Daniil Trifonov performed Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Richard Termine
New York Classical Review
If you like looking at pictures of Alfred Roller’s sets for Götterdāmmerung or portraits of Jean de Reszke as Siegfried or Birgit Nilsson as Brünnhilde, you would likely have enjoyed the New …
Superb singing in “Rigoletto” highlights return of Met’s Weimar …
Oct 1, 2024 · Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening in Bartlett Sher’s production, which was first seen on New Year’s Eve 2021. The main draw then, as now, was …
Dramatic moments yet Met’s “Trovatore”still a work in progress
Oct 30, 2024 · This current stretch of the Metropolitan Opera’s season is all meat and potatoes, dense with revivals of Puccini and Verdi—Rigoletto, Tosca, La Bohème—for the next …
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 …
Mälkki makes both the new and familiar fresh and memorable …
Nov 1, 2024 · Though little more than a month has passed, the surprise of the New York Philharmonic season so far is how interesting it has been. Waiting two years for incoming …
A first-rate cast brings the romance and heartache to Met’s …
Nov 14, 2024 · With over 500 performances, even a crowd-pleasing production like Franco Zeffirelli’s La Bohème can be hard to keep fresh, or even interesting.What’s more, this work …
Hewitt’s style proves better suited to Baroque than Brahms at 92NY
Oct 31, 2024 · Angela Hewitt and Johannes Brahms are both antiquarians at heart, immersing themselves in very old music—she to perform it in concert, he to deepen his understanding of …