While the season opener at New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera is often drawn from the great operatic repertoire, Peter Gelb has chosen a contemporary opera for his 2023-2024 season for a change! Jake Heggie and his opera Dead Man Walking, first performed in San Franciso in 2000, will headline the season with superstar Joyce DiDonato. […]
After performing the premiere of an Aucoin, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and Verdi concert at Carnegie Hall in New York (22 June 2023), Yannick Nézet-Séguin is taking his orchestra to Europe. The Met Orchestra is expected to perform on 27 June 2023 at the Philharmonie de Paris and on 2 July at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with soprano […]
Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who recently renewed his contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has his work cut out for him. The artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera is preparing to conduct the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion from 10 April 2023 (after the success of Fire Shut Up in My Bones). Since 26 February […]
After announcing her retirement from opera stage, superstar soprano Renée Fleming is back! This grand return will take place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 2022 where the diva, alongside Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato, will perform the role of Clarissa Vaughan in Kevin Puts’ The Hours, a world premiere. Yannick […]
One of the world’s greatest opera, the Metropolitan Opera has announced the complete cancellation of its 2020-21 season. Even though the 2021-2022 season has been announced at the same time, it is obviously a shock for all music lovers who now fear a domino effect in the United States. Fortunatly, operas in Europe are still […]
While it remains closed at least until the end of December due to the current health crisis, the Metropolitan Opera House launched on 18 July the “MET Stars Live in Concert” project, a series of 12 paid online and live recitals featuring the greatest opera stars of the moment. Throughout the summer and until the […]
Domino effect at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The cancellation of the beginning of the opera season 2020-2021 has consequence on the 2021 season. For scheduling reasons, the Met cancels the revival of Berg’s Lulu production and replaces it with additional performances of Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia starring Brenda Rae who is switching from […]
It’s a huge surprise. As venues are heading towards an upcoming reopening, the Metropolitan Opera has just announced the cancellation of the start of its 2020-2021 season. The Covid is obviously the cause in a city that has one of the largest numbers of cases in the world. The Met will open on December 31, […]
All together at the Met! In this terrible moment, the great New York Opera House flashes by calling no less than 40 quarantined artists to perform a At-Home Gala larger than life. The free concert will take place online on the Met website, on April 25 at 1:00 p.m. local time (which corresponds to 7:00 […]
Sixth week of Opera streams. The Metropolitan Opera offers to watch exciting productions on this new week of confinement like R. Strauss’s Elektra directed by Esa-Pekka Salonen and starring Nina Stemme or Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann starring Joseph Calleja and Anna Netrebko, Verdi’s La Traviata starring Natalie Dessay and the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Puccini’s Tosca […]
