Jan 7, 2025 · Pene Pati as the Duke and Erin Morley as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Jennifer Taylor / Met Opera Verdi’s Rigoletto returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday with a fresh cast under the baton of Daniele Callegari. The performance featured the house debut of ...

Sep 29, 2024 · E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early Romantic era, is remembered today less for his own writings than for his influence on the likes of Hawthorne, Poe, and the young Robert Schumann. And—Jacques Offenbach? Ever since seeing the play Les Contes d’Hoffmann, concocted from the writer’s stories by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, the composer of fizzy entertainments such as ...

Performances Pianist Liu goes small and big in Russian works at Carnegie Despite its cyclical title, Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons was not conceived as a piano […] Wang sports pianist and leader hats in Jazz Age Philharmonic program The audience at the New York Philharmonic Thursday night saw a […] Speedo Green makes masterful solo debut at Carnegie Hall Ryan Speedo Green is such a ...

Dec 13, 2024 · The days are shortening, the air is chilly, and festive lights are going up. That means it’s time for the Metropolitan Opera’s holiday performance of The Magic Flute. This is Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, compressed into one continuous act of under two hours, translated into English by J.D. McClatchy, and using Julie Taymor’s previous production for the full opera. The Met has scheduled ...

Oct 16, 2024 · Daniela Mack, Angel Blue and Elena Villalón in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl/Met Opera.

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 production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results. There were memorable moments to be sure, but ...

Oct 18, 2024 · Daniil Trifonov’s recital Thursday night at Carnegie Hall brought this mystery to the fore. This was an uncommon experience from one of the greatest contemporary classical artists. His keyboard playing was as fantastic as always, with a ringing sound, a range of touch and dynamics from hammering to caresses, high velocity and smooth phrasing. The mood, though, and therefore the thinking ...

Nov 30, 2024 · For an enduringly popular composer like Richard Strauss, it’s unexpected to find that one of his major operas has only had sixty-something performances at the Metropolitan Opera. But that’s the case with Die Frau ohne Schatten, which made it to the stage for the 66th time Friday night with the opening of this season’s revival of Herbert Wernicke’s 2001 production. The main hurdle in ...

Feb 22, 2024 · The Metropolitan Opera will continue its expansion into contemporary opera in its 2024-2025 season, with four house premieres from composers of our time, and will refresh one of its most popular repertoire operas with a new production. The Met’s upcoming season will open September 23 with Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded. The drama about an Air Force drone pilot premiered last fall at the Kennedy ...

Jan 3, 2025 · The program of the New York Philharmonic’s concert Thursday night was largely about journeys, but it started with an arrival. In an impressive Philharmonic debut, the German conductor Kevin John Edusei presented a brilliant calling card in Samy Moussa’s Elysium, then took listeners on poetic and philosophical trips with music of Berlioz and Richard Strauss. In a program note, Moussa ...