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Met Opera 2024-25 Review: Ainadamar
“That. Was. Glorious,” an anonymous voice behind me gushed when the curtain dropped. Indeed, Ainadamar’s genre-fusing combination of great voices, historical elegy, and explosive flamenco dancing is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
Met Opera 2024-25 Review: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Jacques Offenbach‘s Les Contes d’Hoffmann is opera’s equivalent of The Tortured Poets Department, only 14,592 times better. The music brims with kaleidoscopic vibrancy and the story of Hoffmann’s three loves is delightful, though dizzyingly strange at times.
Met Opera 2023-24 Review: Orfeo ed Euridice
The Orpheus myth has probably had more operas made out of it than any other story, but Glück’s baroque masterpiece Orfeo ed Euridice, the most famous of the Orphic operas, is one of the very few with a happy ending.
Met Opera 2023-24 Review: The Hours
What did I just witness? was the question that I kept asking myself, and failing to answer. What was that? The experience of seeing The Hours defies description, but I will describe mine to the best of my current ability.
Album Review: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
Golda Schultz’s voice is reminiscent of a vibrant flower opening its petals toward the sun, and Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! is an exquisitely juicy album from one of the world’s most exquisite sopranos.
Met Opera 2023-24 Review: Roméo et Juliette
Romeo and Juliet reliably make you swoon and weep, but a truly worthy cast should make the “sweet sorrow” fresh each time. The cast the Met has assembled for Roméo et Juliette blows these and other standards away.
