The New York Times – Music:
The classical music tradition in the United States is borrowed from Europe. But few could have anticipated how European it would remain.
Category: Metropolitan Opera
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Brian Large, Who Brought Opera Vividly to Life on Film, Dies at 89
The New York Times – Music:
In a directing career that included over 70 Met Opera broadcasts, he said his work was “dictated by the music, by key change, by orchestration, by phrasing.”
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Sting Never Gave Up on His Musical ‘The Last Ship.’ Now It’s Back
The New York Times – Music:
After his 2014 musical failed on Broadway, the musician is bringing a revised version of it to the Metropolitan Opera for a limited run this week.
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Isabel Leonard and Others Offer Tastings of ‘Frida y Diego’
The New York Times – Music:
The performers of a Met Opera production about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have been promoting the show in decidedly unoperatic places, including a cemetery.
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Inside the Met Opera: Does Peter Gelb Have ‘the Most Difficult Job on Earth’?
The New York Times – Music:
Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, said he is not going anywhere as he struggles with financial crises and opera’s place in a changing arts landscape.
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Frida Kahlo Photos: What Made the Painter a ‘Living Work of Art’
The New York Times – Music:
Plaster corsets and Tehuana skirts, men’s wear and spider monkeys: These are the things that made Frida Frida.
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Review: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Reunited in Opera
The New York Times – Music:
“El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s fantasy about two titans of Mexican art, arrives at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Asmik Grigorian on Performing the Opera ‘Eugene Onegin’
The New York Times – Music:
The soprano Asmik Grigorian is starring as Tatiana, one of her signature roles, in Tchaikovsky’s classic at the Metropolitan Opera.