Performances in N.Y.C. Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Credit...Metropolitan Opera ...
Political prisoner is rescued from dungeon by his faithful wife, only to find that she’s pregnant! Not really: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who’s shown herself indispensable in roles from ...
If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...
Garsington’s airy and luminous opera pavilion challenges any interpreter of a work so filled – dramatically and musically – with the subterranean darkness of buildings, of institutions, and of the ...
Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Met, a magnet for star singers, flexed its muscles to stack the cast of Beethoven’s only opera, with Lise Davidsen in the title role ...
Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” a timeless monument to love, life, and liberty, will be shown March 15 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish as part of The Met: Live in HD program. Sung in German with ...
Beethoven’s only opera—an ode to freedom, justice, and the human spirit—returns to the Met with a fine cast. Adrianne Pieczonka is Leonore, who, disguised as Fidelio, courageously fights for her ...
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