AT THE MET: TWO OPERAS, HIGH BODY COUNT
Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center; March 7th and 8th, 2011 Both Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor are stories of love, murder and
JOHN ADAMS’ NIXON IN CHINA ARRIVES AT THE MET
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y; February 9, 2011 Hailed – and occasionally berated – as a “CNN Opera” when it premiered in 1987, John
CHRISTMAS WITH ANONYMOUS 4 AT MET MUSEUM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; December 14, 2010 The best-selling, four-women group named Anonymous 4 blasted upon the scene in the ‘80s and
WILLIAM CHRISTIE’S DEBUT IN MET COSI FAN TUTTE
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center; November 17, 2010 Normally a revival of a 14 year-old production of a Mozart staple at the Met would not
GERGIEV, PAPE IN MET’S NEW “BORIS GODUNOV”
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; October 11, 2010 It has been 36 years since the Met staged a new production of Mussorgsky’s greatest opera
FLEMING AND SIX TENORS IN ROSSINI’S FANTASTIC “ARMIDA”
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; April 19, 2010 Composed during the particularly fecund period between 1815 and 1822 when he was musical director in
BARITONE-TINGED DOMINGO AS MET’S BOCCANEGRA
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; Feb 2, 2010 Simon Boccanegra is a dark, a-typical Verdi opera. The 1857 Venice premiere was a flop and
LIONHEART: MEDIEVAL ENGLAND COMES TO THE MET MUSEUM
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.; December 22, 2009 It isn’t easy to present a program of Christmas music most of which will be
DAVID DANIELS AND ENGLISH CONCERT IN BACH AND HANDEL
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York; April 1, 2009 Star countertenor David Daniels, along with The English Concert led by Harry Bicket, ended their
YOUNG LOVE BEAUTIFULLY CUT SHORT IN NEW “WEST SIDE STORY”
Palace Theater, New York; March, 2009 The original production of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story – and the film that followed a few years later