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Mozart's DON GIOVANNI Receives A New Production By Ivo Van Hove In His Met Debut Photo by Stephi Wild - May 03, 2023

​​​​​​​Ivo van Hove, the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway's A View from the Bridge, makes a major Met debut with Mozart's Don Giovanni (May 5–June 2), re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the work's dark corners....

Met Opera Broadcasts Coming To Theaters Across The Country Include FALSTAFF, LOHENGRI Photo by Team BWW - January 19, 2023

The Met Opera brings magic and splendor to cinemas across the country with The Met: Live in HD. ...

Review: DON CARLO Returns to the Met, This Time in Italian Photo by Richard Sasanow - November 13, 2022

Last season, the company gave its first presentation of the French version (that’s the one called DON CARLOS, with a final S to his first name), in the five-act version that lasted almost 5 hours. This year, we’re back to Italian, under Carlo Rizzi’s firm baton, in one of a number of versions (this one running about 4 hours) of DON CARLO, which uses shortcuts to tell the story elements deleted with the excision of the first act (usually referred to as “the Fontainebleau scene”)....

The Met Opera Presents AT-HOME GALA: Encore Screening, 12-13 Jun 2020 Photo by Gilbert Kim Sancha - June 11, 2020

As part of The Metropolitan Opera's (Met Opera) urgent “The Voice Must Be Heard” fundraising campaign to support and protect the future of opera amid the COVID-19, more than 40 leading opera artists and members of the company's brilliant orchestra and chorus performed from their respective homes all around the world. The unprecedented virtual gathering of Met Opera's principal artists, ensemble, and orchestra, billed as At-Home Gala, was streamed live around the world in 162 countries on 25 Apri...

BWW Review: Metropolitan Opera's At-Home Gala Photo by Maria Nockin - April 26, 2020

On April 25, 2020, The Metropolitan Opera presented many of its top ranked artists performing from their homes or where they were staying on that date. Met General Manager Peter Gelb, the master of ceremonies, chatted with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as they presented each performer. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, artists were recorded alone or with people they know well....

BWW Review: Met's Round-the-World, At-Home Gala Proves 'Music is Nutrition for Our So Photo by Richard Sasanow - April 26, 2020

In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis that is gripping the world--and keeping so many people in quarantine--the Metropolitan Opera managed to pull off a brilliantly executed music coup. It connected stars, chorus members and orchestral musicians in an “At-Home Gala”--a combination fund-raiser for the Met with wonderful entertainment. And the technology worked!...

Preview: Virtually Fabulous--or Fabulously Virtual--Met's Gala In-Home Event from New Photo by Richard Sasanow - April 24, 2020

For all you lovelorn, “live opera”-lovers, the Met is coming to the rescue from COVID-19 this afternoon, Saturday April 25, at 1pm New York time, with a gala concert featuring over 40 artists performing direct from their homes around the world....

BWW Reviews: A Great Week for Haircuts at the Met, from BARBIERE to NIXON Photo by Richard Sasanow - April 02, 2020

The Met on Demand had another week of exciting performances, from the divine [Rossini's IL  BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA] to the, well, the divine [Adams's NIXON IN CHINA]....

BWW Review: Paris Opera Gives Us a Look at the Met's New DON GIOVANNI from the Palais Photo by Richard Sasanow - March 29, 2020

Thanks to the French online service, France.tv, opera-goers in New York have had a chance to see what lies ahead with the new production of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI by Ivo van Hove, that, health crisis be willing, will make its debut at the Met next March....

BWW Review: Met Audiences Learn to Love WOZZECK in Kentridge Production, with Mattei, Photo by Richard Sasanow - January 04, 2020

A funny thing happened the other night at the Met when the curtain came down on William Kentridge's stunning new production of Alban Berg's cruel and devastating WOZZECK. The audience didn't rush from their seats to escape into the night. They stayed and cheered for an opera with a reputation for being, well, challenging for opera-goers weaned on Figaros and Flutes, Aidas and even Ring Cycles....

The Met Announces 2019 Summer Encores Photo by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2019

Beginning Wednesday, June 19, the Met will present Summer Encores, featuring select performances from the celebrated Live in HD series, in more than 400 movie theaters across the United States and Canada. The 2019 Summer Encores opens with Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, seen in Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher's acclaimed production, with tenor Vittorio Grigolo and soprano Diana Damrau as the star-crossed lovers. The series continues with the Met's classic production of Puccini's La Bohème...

Metropolitan Opera Cast Change Advisory: DON GIOVANNI Photo by Julie Musbach - April 12, 2019

Paul Appleby will sing Don Ottavio in tonight's performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni, replacing Pavol Breslik, who is ill....

The Met Announces Live In HD 2019/20 Series Photo by Julie Musbach - February 21, 2019

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 14th season on October 12, with the Met's production of Puccini's Turandot, starring Christine Goerke in the title role, led by the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin....

VIDEO: Get A First Look At DON GIOVANNI at The Met Opera Photo by Alan Henry - February 11, 2019

Baritone Peter Mattei and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni star as opera's most notorious seducer in Mozart's masterpiece of dark comedy. Cornelius Meister makes his Met debut conducting performances that also include sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Guanqun Yu as Donna Anna, sopranos Federica Lombardi and Susanna Phillips as Donna Elvira, and basses Ildar Abdrazakov and Adam Plachetka as Leporello. ...




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