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‘Moby-Dick’ Sails Confidently into the Met, and the Exhilarating Optimism of ‘Fidelio’ Arrives Just in Time
The Metropolitan Opera ended its annual winter hiatus with two productions that chronicle their protagonists’ dangerous, intensely personal quests.
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
New York Classical Review8d
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 ...