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Incoherent Otello from Cura, Hampson

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; March 11, 2013—Elijah Moshinsky’s production of Otello on Michael Yeargan’s gigantic sets has returned

Puzzling, Bleak Parsifal, Gorgeously Sung

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; February 18, 2013—What is Wagner’s Parsifal about? Ritual? Prayer? Salvation/redemption? Nature depicting inner life?

Lovely New Soprano in Met’s “Ory”

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 29, 2013—Bartlett Sher’s 2011 production of Rossini’s last comic opera, Le Comte Ory,

Dueling Queens in Met’s Maria Stuarda

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; January 8, 2013—Donizetti’s 1834 opera Maria Stuarda, based on a play by Friedrich Schiller,

The Met’s New Aida–The Genuine Article

Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, N.Y.; December 12, 2012—Sonja Frisell’s 1988 production of Verdi’s Aida with Gianni Quaranta’s gigantic sets

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  • Ideally Cast Met Revival of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette
    Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; March 19, 2024—The Met has revived Bartlett Sher’s 1967 production of Gounod’s R&J hot on the heels of its
  • An Ozawa Story, November, 1969
    Much has justifiably been written regarding Seiji Ozawa’s extraordinary abilities and achievements as a conductor, and similarly about his generosity, graciousness, and sense of humor
  • Arvo Pärt’s Passio At St. John The Divine
    Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, NY; January 26, 2024—When one thinks of musical settings of Christ’s Passion, one normally thinks of the