The New York Times – Music:
It’s not stage-filling spectacle, but Barrie Kosky’s version of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the start of a four-opera epic, is eerie, vivid and intense.
Category: Metropolitan Opera
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The Met Commissions an Opera About Abducted Ukrainian Children
The New York Times – Music:
The work, by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and the American playwright George Brant, is inspired by the accounts of mothers whose children were taken during the war.
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The Soprano Ailyn Pérez Doesn’t Feel Like a Beginner Anymore
The New York Times – Music:
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.
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Renata Scotto Spun an Actor’s Insight Into Vocal Gold
The New York Times – Music:
The Italian soprano’s dramatic acumen and hard-to-characterize voice brought a range of classic opera heroines vividly and emotionally to life.
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Renata Scotto, Opera Diva Who Inhabited Roles, Dies at 89
The New York Times – Music:
Ms. Scotto, a leading Italian soprano, sang more than two dozen roles at the Metropolitan Opera and was a charismatic and demanding stage partner.
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The Metropolitan Opera Guild Will Wind Down Amid Financial Woes
The New York Times – Music:
The organization, founded in 1935 to support the opera house, will lay off 20 employees and stop publishing Opera News as a stand-alone monthly magazine.
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Anna Netrebko Sues Met Opera After Losing Work Over Support of Putin
The New York Times – Music:
Seeking at least $360,000, the singer accused the storied opera house of discrimination, defamation and breach of contract. The company disputed her claims.
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Review: A Met Opera-Bound ‘Semele’ Takes Its First Bows
The New York Times – Music:
Claus Guth’s entertaining and often sexy new staging of Handel’s opera-oratorio hybrid in Munich is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera.