Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.
Category: Perez , Ailyn (1979- )
-
An Opera’s Riverboat Journey Brings the Rainforest Onboard
Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
-
The Soprano Ailyn Pérez Doesn’t Feel Like a Beginner Anymore
Long a rising star, she is getting a new Metropolitan Opera production built around her, and it’s the house’s first Spanish-language show.
-
Seeing ‘L’Orfeo’ in Santa Fe
Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out.
-
Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom
The New York Times – Music:Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of “Falstaff.”