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‘The MoMA for Classical Music’: How PONY is Using Tech to Change the Concert...
The modern concert is a multisensory experience. But while elaborate props and trippy visuals are expected at rock, hip-hop or pop concerts, do they have a place in classical performance? This is the...
View ArticleThe Emotional Landscape of Tchaikovsky on Display in 'Eugene Onegin,' Your...
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky’s adaptation of the Pushkin novel of the same name, is your 1 pm Met Radio Broadcast. It deals with a familiar and uncomfortable theme to most of us: a strong desire between...
View ArticleThe Vanishing Vocal Recital (and Where to Find Some)
The vocal recital — a program of well-selected songs performed by a singer and a collaborative pianist as equal artistic partners — could be struggling for survival. Fewer are being given (although...
View ArticleThe Flying Dutchman: Wagner's Eternal Wanderer
For his fifth opera, The Flying Dutchman, Wagner chose a popular maritime legend as the basis for an eerie and evocative work. In it, we meet an archetypal character that appears time and again in art...
View ArticleJonathan Demme's Love of Music
This morning it was reported that filmmaker Jonathan Demme has died at the age of 73. The influential director, who succumbed to complications from cancer and heart disease, made his directorial debut...
View ArticleReview: The Met's 'Flying Dutchman' Brings More Nezet-Seguin Anticipation
Yannick Nezet-Seguin knows how to conduct an entrance.The Metropolitan Opera's music director designate did just that when first appearing as a guest conductor in a new production of Carmen in 2009:...
View ArticleFinding the 'Sweet Spot' at the Opera House
One of my operagoing highlights this year was a February performance of Rossini’s Tancredi at Opera Philadelphia with Stephanie Blythe in the title role and a strong cast that included soprano Brenda...
View ArticleWagner's ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’ Is Your Met Opera Broadcast
This Saturday at 1 pm, the Metropolitan Opera is airing Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman). It was Richard Wagner’s fourth full length opera, and his first considered masterpiece. This...
View Article#3823: Living Opera & Sound Design, with Tom Hamilton
For this New Sounds, electronic composer and sound designer Tom Hamilton joins John Schaefer in the studio. In addition to his own works, Hamilton also collaborated with the late Robert Ashley,...
View ArticleMet Gold: The Inaugural Season at Lincoln Center
Fifty years ago, the Metropolitan Opera opened its doors at Lincoln Center and that first season was one of the greatest housewarming parties in opera history. At 9 pm on Tuesday, May 2, tune in for...
View ArticleA Nose by Any Other Name: Franco Alfano's 'Cyrano de Bergerac'
According to soprano Jennifer Rowley, there’s a little bit of Cyrano in all of us.When it comes to pathos, Franco Alfano’s opera based on Cyrano de Bergerac hits this sentimental story right on the...
View ArticleLearning Musical German With Irene Spiegelman
My regular readers know that in recent months I have published articles about using languages effectively to sing opera and recitals. These have included English with tenor Paul Appleby; Italian with...
View ArticleAlfano's 'Cyrano de Bergerac,' a Rarely Performed Gem, Is Your Met Radio...
This Saturday at 12:30 pm, treat yourself to the Met Opera’s Radio Broadcast of Franco Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac. A live listen to this 1936 opera is a gem, indeed — it’s far less well known than the...
View ArticleDmitri Hvorostovsky's Surprise Performance at the Met Opera 50th Anniversary...
On Sunday, May 7, the Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 50th year in Lincoln Center. The Anniversary Gala brought some of the opera’s finest voices together in one room as they performed favorites from...
View ArticleThe Met Gala Celebrates Its Opera House
The Metropolitan Opera does galas very well. It covered itself in glory again on May 7 as it celebrated 50 years at Lincoln Center in the 3,786-seat theater it built to stage productions benefiting...
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Saying farewell to some opera roles, Renée Fleming has career high notes...
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: And, finally, a little change of pace.Opera lovers let out a collective gasp recently when a New York Times profile of renowned soprano Renee Fleming suggested her current...
View ArticleStopping the Clocks with Strauss' 'Der Rosenkavalier'
Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is an opera about the passage of time — what it means to grow older, what we lose and what we gain as the years pass, and how we know when it's time to let go of the...
View ArticleIn Her Own Words: Four Phenomenal Musicians on Motherhood and Music
Mother's Day is here. The relationship between parent and child is a strong one, so in keeping with in the spirit of matriarchal celebrations, let's take a look at a few notable classical talents and...
View Article'Der Rosenkavalier', a Strauss Classic, is Your Final Met Opera Radio...
This is a bittersweet weekend for two reasons. It’s the final Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast of the year, and it’s Renée Fleming’s final performance before stepping away from several roles that...
View ArticleThe Opera Party: Secrets of the Opera
Watch Metropolitan Opera countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo celebrate opera — and its secrets — in a whole new way at The Greene Space.Part of a news series from WQXR, opera stars will share the...
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