Singer Bows Out Mid-Opera
NEW YORK -- Natalie Dessay needed a relief soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. After struggling through the first act of Verdi's "La Traviata" on Satu...
NEW YORK -- Natalie Dessay needed a relief soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. After struggling through the first act of Verdi's "La Traviata" on Satu...
AP | Posted 04.16.2012
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera in New York has reached a landmark in its movie-theater broadcasts from the stage to the world: 10 million tic...
AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 04.08.2012
NEW YORK — Last season Willy Decker's radical restaging of Verdi's "La Traviata" took the Metropolitan Opera by storm, with soprano Marina Popla...
Posted 02.13.2012
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Howard Kissel | Posted 05.25.2011
The new production of Verdi's "La Traviata," unveiled New Year's Eve at the Metropolitan Opera, is pretty strenuous -- the singers have to do a lot of running, jumping and gymnastics.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011
George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.
Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011
La Fenice in Venice has been one of the most important opera houses for over two centuries. Verdi alone wrote "Attila," "Rigoletto," "La Traviata" and "Simon Boccanegra" for La Fenice!
Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011
The Met seems to have embraced the old Hollywood Star System and is now milking it for all its worth.
Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011
That Roberto Alagna gives, through the miracle of his voice, a great deal of happiness is not in doubt. Nor, I think, is the price of it.
Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011
Opera's leading director is frequently described as a genius, but rarely escapes the label of "enfant terrible" and "angry young man."
AP | Posted 04.22.2012