The company has bet that new operas will attract new, more diverse audiences and revitalize a stale repertory. Is the gamble paying off?
Category: El Nino (Opera)
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Audiences Are Returning to the Met Opera, but Not for Everything
The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences is having mixed success.
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Can Marin Alsop Shatter Another Glass Ceiling?
Alsop has had enviable success, and was the first female conductor to lead a top American orchestra. She wants to take another step up.
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Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory
The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.
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Costuming a Small Army of Virgins for the Met Opera’s ‘El Niño’
The challenge for Montana Levi Blanco, the Tony-winning costume designer for John Adams’s oratorio, was how to keep straight so many Marys.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz Directs ‘El Niño’ For Her Met Opera Debut
In an interview, Blain-Cruz explained why an oratorio like John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “El Niño” is more difficult to stage than the usual opera.
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A Pathbreaking Singer Arrives at the Met, With Pearls and Tattoos
Davóne Tines, who stars in the oratorio “El Niño,” is challenging traditions in classical music and using art to confront social problems.
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Jaap van Zweden Bids Farewell, and Other Classical Highlights
The Philharmonic’s maestro ends his tenure, Igor Levit comes to Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera takes a chance on reviving two recent hits.
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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.