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“Nabucco” returns to Met, vocal thrills and spectacle intact
WEBSep 29, 2023 · Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera. Verdi’s Nabucco returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday in the late Elijah Moshinsky’s monumental production from 2001. The opera is an account of the Babylonian captivity after the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar (Nabucco). It was Verdi’s third opera and the one that made his career.
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WEBSep 22, 2024 · NOVUS Trinity Choir Paola Prestini: Silent Light (world premiere) Anthony Dean Griffey, Daniel Okulitch, Julia Mintzer, Brittany Renee Christopher Rountree, conductor 7 p.m. National Sawdust. New York Philharmonic Anthony Parnther, conductor John Williams: Jaws in Concert (score with film) 7:30 p.m. David Geffen Hall nyphil.org.
Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital
WEBSat May 11, 2024 at 3:10 pm. By David Wright. Yuja Wang performed works by Messiaen, Scriabin and Chopin Friday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. If Yuja Wang’s intention for the first half of her Carnegie Hall recital Friday night was to show the kinship among the styles of Messiaen, Scriabin and Debussy, she succeeded almost too well.
Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
WEBJan 29, 2023 · Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all ...
Met’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four ...
WEBMet’s 2024-25 season will bring new “Aida” and “Salome,” four contemporary operas. Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 1:00 pm. By George Grella. Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season. Photo: David Ruano / Liceu Opera Barcelona. The Metropolitan Opera will continue its ...
Met wraps season with a stylish and elegant “Orfeo ed Euridice”
WEBMay 17, 2024 · Revivals of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice are always highlights of any Metropolitan Opera season. Not only is the score invariably refreshing and invigorating, but the Mark Morris production—which debuted in 2007—is one of the most elegant and intelligent stagings in the Met’s repertoire. As the last production on this season’s schedule ...
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WEBNov 1, 2021 · Met’s triumphant “Porgy and Bess” returns, deeper and even more compelling. Mon Nov 01, 2021 at 12:29 pm. By George Grella. Eric Owens and Angel Blue star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera. If it’s possible for even the slightest bit of good to have come out of the pandemic ...
Borodin’s original “Prince Igor” shines, dark yet brilliant, at the Met
WEBFeb 7, 2014 · It has been nearly a century since Borodin’s Prince Igor was last heard at the Metropolitan Opera.The overture may have to wait another hundred years. The new edition of Prince Igor by director Dmitri Tcherniakov and conductor Gianadrea Noseda, which premiered Thursday night at the Met, is a revelation. The two men have stripped away the additions of Aleksandr Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky ...
Philharmonic’s renovated home blossoms anew with orchestral …
WEBOct 13, 2022 · Jaap van Zweden conducted the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of Marcos Balter’s Oyá, at the first subscription concert in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall Wednesday night. Photo: Chris Lee. In 1798, Joseph Haydn began his oratorio The Creation with a “Representation of Chaos.”. To …