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Cinematic Adventures: Il Trovatore (2010-11)
Every summer, the Met tries to ease our cravings with four HD cinema broadcasts from seasons past. I haven’t been to the cinema since COVID struck, but the idea of Verdi’s riveting Trovatore was too much to resist.
An Interview With Matthew Polenzani
Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking over Zoom with the splendid tenor Matthew Polenzani about operatic characters, his happiest memories as a performer, the Chicago Cubs, fatherhood, and more!
Spotlight: Rachmaninoff’s “Ne poy, krasavitsa”
‘‘Do not sing, beautiful girl, before me,’ the singer of Rachmaninoff’s poignant ‘Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne’ begins, pleading to an unnamed, invisible, and silent…
