The New York Times – Music:
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- )
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An Opera’s Riverboat Journey Brings the Rainforest Onboard
The New York Times – Music:
Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
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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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Seeing ‘L’Orfeo’ in Santa Fe
The New York Times – Music:
Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out.
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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.”
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Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees.
The New York Times – Music:
The company’s revival of “Eugene Onegin” gives the lie to the Russian president’s claim that his country’s composers are suffering in the West.