Reviews on Verdi’s “Attila” at the Metropolitan Opera

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Seen and Heard: International Opera Review (Bernard Jacobson)

Opera Review: Verdi’s “Attila” makes belated debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News)

Anne Midgette Reviews Verdi’s “Attila” from the MET (Washington Post)

Verdi’s “Attila” (David Laviska, Musical Criticism.com)

A scene from the Met’s 2010 production of Verdi’s “Attila”

Published in: on March 9, 2010 at 4:50 am  Leave a Comment  
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Listen to “Hansel and Gretel” LIVE from the MET TONIGHT AT 8PM.

Listen Live!!!

Note: You must have RealPlayer installed on your computer for the above link to work.

CAST

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Gretel: Miah Persson
Hansel: Angelika Kirchschlager
Gertrude: Rosalind Plowright
The Witch: Philip Langridge
Peter: Dwayne Croft

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Production: Richard Jones
Set & Costume Designer: John Macfarlane
Lighting Designed by: Jennifer Tipton
Choreographer: Linda Dobell
English Version: David Pountney

Published in: on December 15, 2009 at 12:24 am  Leave a Comment  
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Listen to Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” Live from the MET, Thursday night at 8pm (Sirius/XM/Live Met Radio on Real Player)

Tomorrow night the Met opens its 2009 run of Richard Strauss’ monumental and psychological opera, “Elektra”, featuring soprano Susan Bullock as the tragic heroine and Deborah Voigt as Chrysothemis.  Listen live at 8pm on Sirius/XM Radio or live from the Met Website on Real Player.

Susan Bullock, as Elektra

CAST

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Elektra: Susan Bullock
Chrysothemis: Deborah Voigt
Klytemnestra: Felicity Palmer
Aegisthus: Wolfgang Schmidt
Orestes: Evgeny Nikitin

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Production: Otto Schenk
Set & Costume Designer: Jürgen Rose
Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler

One of the greatest, the late Hildegard Behrens

Published in: on December 9, 2009 at 4:58 pm  Comments (2)  
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“Les Contes D’Hoffmann”: hear the season premiere, tonight at 8pm on Sirius/XM Radio

The lovely, Anna Netrebko, as Antonia

Conductor: James Levine
Olympia: Kathleen Kim
Antonia/Stella: Anna Netrebko
Giulietta: Ekaterina Gubanova
Nicklausse: Kate Lindsey
Hoffmann: Joseph Calleja
Four Villains: Alan Held

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Choreographer: Dou Dou Huang

A composite of one of the sets.

Published in: on December 3, 2009 at 5:07 pm  Comments (1)  
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Wednesday night broadcast of “From the House of the Dead” on Sirius/XM Radio: 8pm

A scene from the Met’s production of From the House of the Dead

 

Cast

Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Filka Morozov: Stefan Margita
Skuratov: Kurt Streit
Shapkin: Peter Hoare
Shishkov: Peter Mattei
Gorianchikov: Willard White

 

THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Production: Patrice Chéreau
Associate Director: Thierry Thieu Niang
Set Designer: Richard Peduzzi
Costume Designer: Caroline de Vivaise
Lighting Designer: Bertrand Couderc

 

Listen Live!!!

Published in: on November 30, 2009 at 8:18 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Sirius/XM Radio broadcast of Puccini’s “Il Trittico” tomorrow night at 8pm.

Stephanie Blythe and Patricia Racette in the Met’s “Trittico”

 

Stay tuned for a review to follow.

Conductor: Stefano Ranzani
Giorgetta: Patricia Racette
Luigi: Aleksandrs Antonenko
Michele: Željko Lucic
Frugola: Stephanie Blythe
Suor Angelica: Patricia Racette
Sister Genovieffa: Heidi Grant Murphy
La Principessa: Stephanie Blythe
Lauretta: Patricia Racette
Rinuccio: Saimir Pirgu
Gianni Schicchi: Alessandro Corbelli
Zita: Stephanie Blythe

 

Published in: on November 25, 2009 at 3:18 am  Leave a Comment  
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