Thursday, January 7, 2010
Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:30 PM Conductor: Edo de Waart Production: Nathaniel Merrill Stage Director: Robin Guarino Main Cast: Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Susan Graham (Octavian), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Baron Ochs), Christine Schäfer (Sophie), Eric Cutler (Italian tenor). The first twenty people or so who make it into line for the Met’s $20 […]
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Thursday, December 3, 2009
[the trash collectors] Leoš Janáček, From the House of the Dead [Z mrtvého domu] Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 8PM Production: Patrice Chéreau Associate Director: Thierry Thieu Niang Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen Main Cast: Willard White (Alexandr Gorjančikov), Eric Stoklossa (Aljeja) Stefan Margita (Filka Morozov) How to make a narrative of so relentless yet monotonous, time-ravaging and […]
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Also tagged aljeja, dostoevsky, eric stoklossa, Esa-Pekka Salonen, from the house of the dead, Gorjančikov, janacek, Leoš Janáček, met opera, notes from the house of the dead, opera review, Patrice Chéreau, prison operas, prisons in opera, review, reviews, willard white, Z mrtvého domu
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Carmen was the first opera I knew and loved, before its tunes became too familiar and the eager young self dismissed it as unsophisticated. Last night, in the Zeffirelli production first staged at the Met in 1996, I began to rediscover its musical as well as dramatic intelligence. My memory of Don Jose, formed upon […]
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Also tagged bizet, carmen, cigarettes, don jose, french, ildar abdrazakov, independence, irina mishura, Love, monogamy
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