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Next Month, You’ll Need a Booster Shot to Go to the Met Opera

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

It’s the first major performing arts venue in New York City to require proof of a third vaccination.

Posted inPerformance

An Unforgettable Wagner Production Caps Off the Met Opera Season

by John Sherer and Gabriel Grossman April 30, 2019

Robert Lepage’s production design is unforgettable, and the giant machine that serves as its centerpiece is distinctive enough to seem like its own character.

Posted inPerformance

A Missed Chance for Female Empowerment in the Metropolitan Opera’s Marnie

by John Sherer November 7, 2018

At first, the opera seemed relevant to today’s re-evaluation of gender norms. But the narrative does not bear out this interpretation.

A scene from Act II of Mozart's Così fan tutte (photo by Marty Sohl, courtesy the Metropolitan Opera)
Posted inPerformance

Mozart Hits the Coney Island Boardwalk in Remix of Così fan tutte

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

The Met’s new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s.

Posted inPerformance

A Surrealist Satire by Luis Buñuel Becomes a Grim Opera

by John Sherer November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

The Metropolitan Opera’s lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel’s 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.

Posted inArt

Behind the Masquerade of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

by Irene Javors June 4, 2017June 2, 2017

If asked to choose an opera in the category of “most satisfying,” I would choose Richard Strauss’s brilliant Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose, 1911).

Posted inArt

After 113 Years: Have We Come a Long Way?

by Irene Javors February 4, 2017February 3, 2017

When I was 14, after reading yet another biography of Verdi, I asked my mother, “Do women write operas?” She looked at me with incredulity and responded, “Never heard of any.”

Posted inPerformance

A Scintillating Opera Is the Met’s First by a Female Composer in 113 Years

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers December 16, 2016December 16, 2016

L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.

Posted inPerformance

In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience

Avatar photo by John Sherer and Andrew Summers October 31, 2016

Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.

Posted inPerformance

Splendor Is Never Enough: ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Metropolitan Opera

by Matthew Spellberg February 20, 2016February 20, 2016

The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, takes place in a meticulously, even extravagantly realized World-War-II France, with sidewalk cafes and lots of Nazis.

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As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera

by Alison Kinney August 3, 2015August 10, 2015

Inevitably, the history of Black American opera chronicles not just perseverance and accomplishment, but also racism and exclusion.

Posted inPerformance

Stravinsky’s Satiric Opera with Muddy Morals

by Chrysler Ford and Samuel Cooper May 6, 2015May 6, 2015

Clouds, shadows, and other mirrors of the soul have long led protagonists into temptation in order to deliver audiences from evil.

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