I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...

Written over 400 years ago, Cherubini's MEDEA finally made it to the Met on the season's opening night, in a new production by David McVicar. Was it worth the wait? If you take it for Sondra ...

Sondra Radvanovsky portrays the mythic sorceress in this Met premiere of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers. For ...

For several years now I have been hearing of the wildly creative doings coming from Opera Long Beach under the direction of Andreas Mitisek; operas in swimming pools, drag queens in Threepenny Opera, ...

Overlooked for many decades, Luigi Cherubini's Medea -first presented in Paris in 1797- was brought back into the limelight when Maria Callas first performed the title role in 1953 at the Maggio ...

Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...

Watch as Soprano Janai Brugger gives us a taste of Cherubini’s heady score for MADEA, exquisitely brought to life in this excerpt from her Act I aria “O Amore, vieni a me!" When Luigi Cherubini's ...

Carlo Rizzi will return to The Metropolitan Opera to open the 2022/23 season, marking his 30th anniversary year with the Company. The versatile and charismatic Italian conductor will raise the baton ...