This holiday season let Tara Erraught’s rambunctiously lovable Hansel and Lisette Oropesa’s daintily sparky Gretel take you on a journey from their cottage all the way to the woods and then to the iconic Gingerbread House. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
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Let us all celebrate an extraordinary Winter Solstice with two grand divas who portray two iconic priestesses, one whose voice soars like an eagle in the form of Angela Meade’s Norma and the other whose voice has the steely plushness and fiery blaze of a meteor in the form of Jamie Barton’s Adalgisa. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Mademoiselle Hanna-Elisabeth Müller heralds her return to the Met as one of her signature roles, Pamina, in an abridged English-language version of Mozart’s last opera intended for families and audiences of all ages. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Thomas Adés’s The Exterminating Angel, which was based on Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film of the same name, takes on the United States of America through New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, after its debut performances in Salzburg and London, headed by a cavalcade of veritable vocal superstars! Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
This was a Samhain well-spent in courtesy of Mesdames Sondra Radvanovsky’s and Joyce DiDonato’s insurmountable and prodigious skills as singing actresses in the pivotal roles of the famous druid priestess, Norma, and her young friend, Adalgisa. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Julie Taymor’s aesthetically vivid production comes to life and one lovely lyric soprano in the form of Miss Golda Schultz rises up to the challenge to take on Pamina at the Met joined by a cavalcade of musical titans. Enjoy the review and let me know your opinions as well.
Ah, Signora Anna Netrebko. Whether one loves her or not, Tatyana is definitely a role she shines like the sun in.
With a cast headed by two monumental divas, how tall do they manage to stand in Verdi’s grand opera?
A charming, young singer makes her Met debut surrounded by veterans in Beethoven’s only opera. How will it go?
We have a star-studded cast headed by Diana Damrau and Javier Camarena. How well do these veterans hold up?