Metropolitan Opera – Page 35

Blanchard, Terence Champion (Opera) Classical Music Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Opera) Green, Ryan Speedo Jazz Metropolitan Opera Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Opera

Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History

Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.

By Zachary Woolfe

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‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met

Terence Blanchard has been in rehearsals, with pencil and paper at the ready, as he tailors his opera ahead of its New York premiere.

By Seth Colter Walls

Gelb, Peter Gheorghiu, Angela Mastroianni, Jack Metropolitan Opera Opera Tosca (Opera)

Angela Gheorghiu, Diva of the Old School, Is Back at the Met Opera

The strong-willed singer, returning in “Tosca,” was long one of the Metropolitan Opera’s star sopranos. But in the past decade, her appearances have been rare.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Review: Lise Davidsen Shines, and Evolves, in ‘Der Rosenkavalier’

The radiant young soprano returned to the Metropolitan Opera to star as the Marschallin in a revival of Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier.”

By Joshua Barone