Metropolitan Opera | Antony and Cleopatra | Opera Canada
Patrick Dillon
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Le nozze di Figaro “Don’t miss the chance to check it out”
Metropolitan Opera | Le nozze di Figaro | Opera Canada
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Fidelio “Top notch performance of a great but far-from-perfect opera”
Metropolitan Opera | Fidelio | Opera Canada
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Rigoletto “The performance transcends its trappings”
Metropolitan Opera | Rigoletto | Opera Canada
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Tosca “Something very special is going on”
Metropolitan Opera | Tosca | Opera Canada
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Die Frau ohne Schatten “The curse of a long memory”
Metropolitan Opera | Die Frau ohne Schatten | Opera Canada
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MacBeth “Taut and telling stage pictures”
Washington National Opera | MacBeth | Opera Canada
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Tosca “A gentler, less overtly volatile Tosca”
Metropolitan Opera | Tosca | Opera Canada
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Grounded “The Met has a new star”
Metropolitan Opera | Grounded | Opera Canada
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Roméo et Juliette “Theatrically, this is a good, tight, straightforward show”
The New York Times critic W. J. Henderson, back in 1897, punningly dubbed The Metropolitan Opera the “Faustspielhaus,” so dominant was Charles Gounod’s chef d’oeuvre in the company’s repertory. But another opera of Gounod’s, Roméo et Juliette, didn’t lag far...
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Florencia en el Amazonas “Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the orchestra with an audible strong affection for Catán’s colours and rhythms”
“I’m Old Fashioned”—that lilting Jerome Kern standard popped unbidden into my head as Florencia en el Amazonas unfolded at the Metropolitan Opera. Its title sang to me with two distinct “I”s: there was, on the one hand, Daniel Catán’s unfashionably old-fashioned...
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Dead Man Walking “Jake Heggie, I hope, was feeling justifiably proud”
Dead Man Walking, the opera, has enjoyed a remarkable life: it’s been around for twenty-three years now, performed in dozens of venues worldwide and commercially recorded twice, and it shows no signs of going away. I first encountered it in 2002, in Cincinnati, caught...