The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series continues at Munson with a simulcast of Bellini’s I Puritani on Jan. 10 in Utica.
From her first appearance on stage, it was clear that mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina was no flash in the pan when she gave us a scorching Carmen when this production was new just two years ago. The program ...
Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect. Gelb compares her to Beverly Sills, ...
He helped build the ad agency BBDO International into a powerhouse before channeling his passion for opera into managing the ...
The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal showcase for stars Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee.
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A 1991 Youngstown East High School graduate has a starring role in an opera being broadcast around the world this weekend.
Top performances from New York and London will be broadcast live to Palm Beach audiences beginning in January.
Performances in N.Y.C. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager. Charles Edwards on ...
Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...
Watch Ailyn Pérez sings an excerpt from Cio-Cio-San’s Act II aria in an early stage rehearsal for Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
Angel Blue makes her highly anticipated Met role debut as Aida, the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium of Michael Mayer’s ...