BWW Reviews: RENE PAPE Recital at the Met a Matter of Life and Death
The wonderful German singer Rene Pape made history when he made his recital debut at the Met last week—the first bass to perform a solo program at the house.
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BWW Reviews: Met Takes New FIGARO in Marriage for Season Opener
More than most stagings of Mozart's LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, the new Richard Eyre production that opened the season at the Met made it hard to remember that the miserable duo who head the household were the happy couple of Rossini's IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
BWW Interview: FIGARO's Isabel Leonard -- The Girl, the Boy and the Voice
'Cherubino is crazy in some ways, in good ways,' says Isabel Leonard, who is singing the role of the young male page in the Almaviva household in the Metropolitan Opera's new Richard Eyre production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO.
BWW Reviews: THE TSAR'S BRIDE a Heavenly Marriage with the Bolshoi Opera at Lincoln Center Festival
It's easy for opera-lovers to complain about the homogenization of casting at the world's great houses—particularly when there's only a small handful of Annas, Jonases, Juan Diegos, Cecilias, etc.
BWW Reviews: THE PASSENGER Makes Welcome Stopover at the Park Avenue Armory and Lincoln Center Festival
The Houston Grand Opera's brilliant production of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's THE PASSENGER, directed by David Pountney, was a stunning visitor to the Park Avenue Armory last week as a coproduction with the Lincoln Center Festival.
BWW Reviews: Big Voices, Not Big Names, Reign at the Met Summer Recital Series Opener in Central Park
I'd call it “love at first sight” (or, more properly, “first hearing”), but this wasn't the first time I'd heard mezzo Jamie Barton.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Mariella Devia is 'Queen for a Day' at Opera Orchestra's ROBERTO DEVEREUX
In New York, Donizetti's ROBERTO DEVEREUX will forever be associated with Beverly Sills' powerful portrayal of Elizabeth I, and her stern photo glaring out from the cover of Time Magazine.
BWW Reviews: Gotham Chamber Opera's US Premiere of THE RAVEN Cries 'Nevermore'
When New York's Gotham Chamber Opera--in collaboration with the Gerald Lynch Theatre at John Jay College--presented Toshio Hosokawa's THE RAVEN in its US premiere last week, as part of the NY Philharmonic Biennial, the composer could not have wished for a production that made a better case for it.
BWW Reviews: Deal or No Deal, Dutch National Opera's FAUST Is Damned
Even with its visions of damnation and redemption, Gounod's FAUST, with libretto by Barbier and Carre, is pretty tame stuff.
BWW Reviews: From Kaufmann and Florez to Beczala and Camarena, It's the Year of the Tenor
“The party's over,” wrote Betty Comden & Adolph Green in BELLS ARE RINGING.
BWW Reviews: The Tenor's a Cinderella, the Mezzo's Charming and the Met's CENERENTOLA is a Dream
When the Met's production of LA CENERENTOLA, Rossini's version of the Cinderella story.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Olga Peretyatko Debuts in I PURITANI at the Met, But, Oh, That High F from Tenor Lawrence Brownlee
One of the thrilling things about live opera performance is that it's like watching a tightrope walker, particularly when it's one with as many high notes and such florid writing as in Bellini's I PURITANI.
BWW Reviews: Kristine Opolais' BUTTERFLY Spreads Its Glorious Wings at the Met
By this time in the Met's season, audiences can be a little “been there, done that”--but not when it came to Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais, singing the title role in Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY for the first time in New York.
BWW Reviews: Soprano Karita Mattila Shimmers in Strauss's FOUR LAST SONGS at Carnegie Hall
Of all the music that Richard Strauss wrote during his long career—and he'd composed almost 60 songs and more than 40 piano works by the time he was 18—perhaps none are more gorgeous and moving than his FOUR LAST SONGS (VIER LETZTE LIEDER).
BWW Reviews: Millennials Approach and Amaze at Met Council Auditions Concert
In our age of 20-somethings suffering from arrested development, they say “25 is the new 15.
BWW Reviews: What a Difference a Cast Makes, with Damrau and Camarena, in LA SONNAMBULA at the Met
It's always reassuring when a change of cast--in this case soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Javier Camarena in wonderful performances--transforms a truly terrible production into an exciting night at the opera.
BWW Reviews: New Voices Add Luster to LA BOHEME at the Met
I thought someone spiked the water cooler backstage at the Met during the first half of LA BOHEME on March 19.
BWW Reviews: WOZZECK Redux - Levine and the Met Orchestra Show Vienna Who's Boss
When the Vienna State Opera visited New York at the end of February, it brought Alban Berg's WOZZECK to Carnegie Hall as part of the “Vienna: City of Dreams” festivities.
BWW Interview: For Mezzo SUSAN GRAHAM, No Warhorses Need Apply
'I'm not a warhorse kind of singer,' mezzo Susan Graham states matter-of-factly.
BWW Reviews: VITTORIO GRIGOLO--in Concert at the Met--Is Just Warming Up
Ever since the Three Tenors--Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras--got together in Rome's Baths of Caracalla in 1990, the world of opera has never been the same.
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