Category: Opera

‘Lincoln in the Bardo’: A Preview of the Met Opera Adaptation

The New York Times – T Magazine:
In an ethereal costume and surrounded by puppets, Anthony Roth Costanzo sang an aria from the operatic adaptation of George Saunders’s 2017 novel.
Live From the 10th Floor | ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’

The New York Times – T Magazine:
The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo singing an excerpt of an aria from the Met Opera’s adaption of George Saunders’s novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” (2017).
At the Met Opera, Gravity-Defying Feats From an Unlikely Source: Georgian Dancers

The New York Times – Music:
Why include traditional Georgian dance in a production of “Macbeth”? For the opera, the action director wanted something visceral: “I wanted to actually smell the sweat.”
Maine’s Opera Houses Are the Light on Main Street

The New York Times – Music:
With a distinctly American vision of communal life and entertainment, these theaters have survived fires and floods because they were always about more than classical music.
A New Advocate for Opera Takes the Met Stage: Mayor Mamdani

The New York Times – Music:
The mayor, with a video filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, joins the Met in announcing a program to give away 70,000 tickets a year.
A Triumphant Baritone in a Dystopian ‘Macbeth’ Opens the Met Opera Season

The New York Times – Music:
Quinn Kelsey commandingly charts each step in Macbeth’s decline in Louisa Proske’s postapocalyptic setting of Verdi’s opera, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season.
Met Opera’s New Season Opens With Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’

The New York Times – Music:
Luminaries gathered to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera’s new season, which opened with Verdi’s “Macbeth.”
At 98, the Composer Thea Musgrave Is Still Learning

The New York Times – Music:
Musgrave, whose 1977 opera “Mary, Queen of Scots” is opening at the San Francisco Opera, has spent a long career searching for the “dramatic abstract.”
For the Met’s New ‘Macbeth,’ a Costume Designer Transforms Historic Ensembles

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
For two new productions at the Met, a costume designer raided the opera house’s archives, completely transforming decades-old pieces by his idols in the process.
With Helicopters and Dancing Camels, an Opera House Changes Its Groove

The New York Times – Music:
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is staging Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic “Mittwoch aus Licht” at the start of a new season and a new era.
‘A River Runs Through It’ Returns Home to Montana, as Opera

The New York Times – Music:
Opera Montana, a small company that has grown recently, presented its first world premiere, based on one of the state’s most beloved stories.
Louisa Proske Switches on the ‘Epic Brain’ to Direct ‘Macbeth’ at the Met

The New York Times – Music:
The rising director Louisa Proske makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with the season-opening “Macbeth,” a large-scale production that came with a ticking timer.