In his not-quite-fourteen years at The Metropolitan Opera, that compact bundle of...
The Metropolitan Opera La bohème Nézet-Séguin “was greeted with the evening’s heartiest cheers”
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Patrick Dillon
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Metropolitan Opera Falstaff “Everything about [Rustioni’s] deft, graceful, shipshape account of this infinitely rewarding score seemed unobtrusively right”
Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Opera in 2012, Robert Carsen’s temporal transplant of...
Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin “musically this was indeed a classy show”
I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first...
Metropolitan OperaThe Hours A fine opera deserving of a smaller stage
Is Kevin Puts’s The Hours the best brand-new opera the Metropolitan Opera has presented in years?...
Teatro Nuovo Maometto Secondo “Vancouver native Simone McIntosh, lithe and lovely, whose crystalline high mezzo fully commanded Anna’s wide range”
Patience can be amply rewarded: Teatro Nuovo’s Maometto Secondo, thrice deferred, at last hit the...
Metropolitan Opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson “masterfully captured not just the score’s cornucopia of arresting sonorities but its vibrant pulse”
Some operas have grown on me over the years; some productions have, too. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
The Metropolitan Opera Medea “Sondra Radvanovsky, giving one of the most fully immersive performances I’ve ever seen on an opera stage”
Is Luigi Cherubini’s Medea—or Médée, to cite the opéra-comique original of 1797—a prima-donna...
Summer 2022 Print Issue Letter from New York
New York City’s rich opera and theatre scene is back in full swing after the long pandemic silence; Patrick Dillon explores its awakening.
Opera Lafayette’s Silvain Artistic Director Ryan Brown “came through big-time in the pit”
I’d very much missed Opera Lafayette, whose annual visits to New York from its homebase in...
COSÌ FAN TUTTERihab Chaieb is “a dream” in Washington National Opera’s Così fan tutte
I’d thought I was arriving early for a three o’clock Sunday matinee—but no, in frustrating fact I...
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QC
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Nov 21 2024
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Hansel & Gretel Humperdinck
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