At the Met, a visually stunning ‘Moby-Dick’ surfaces but never goes deep
The Metropolitan Opera premiered an expanded version of Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation, which had its East Coast premiere at ...
Taming the ‘Howling Infinite’: ‘Moby-Dick’ Comes to the Met’s Stage
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.
‘Moby-Dick’ and ‘Fidelio’ Review: Opera Adrift at the Met
The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...
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This Met Opera Series Is New York’s Best-Kept Secret
We’ve found the 20s-to-30s crowd to be fashionable, engaged and enthusiastic about incorporating, and continuing, a deep relationship with the extraordinary new and canonical opera the Met offer ...
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Calleja, Mkhitaryan make a charming, complementary duo in Met’s “Bohème”
La Bohème is back at the Metropolitan Opera for its third of four installments this season. For performances this month, Mimi ...
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Opera Lise Davidsen
Soprano Lise Davidsen, left, as Leonore, and soprano Ying Fang, as Marzelline, perform during a dress rehearsal of ...
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A ‘Moby-Dick’-inspired opera opens at the Met
How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan Opera beginning March 3 ... the eight performances ...
Performance of Beethoven's only opera to be shown at Paramount Theatre
A performance by the New York Met Opera of the only opera Beethoven ever composed will be shown in downtown Kamloops this ...
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Davidsen dominates all in Met’s “Fidelio”
Lise Davidsen as Leonore confronts the villainous Pizzaro (Tomasz Konieczny) in Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera ...
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Beethoven at the opera
Beethoven offers two roles—two juicy opportunities—for young tenors: Jaquino and the First Prisoner. Magnus Dietrich (in his ...