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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: 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.
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.
My Night at the Opera: The Hours (PART 1)
Here’s a confession: I don’t like modern opera.
In light of that fact, it might be surprising that I went to see one at the Met, a world premiere no less. Well, I did, and even more surprisingly, I found it mesmerizing.
Met Opera Radio Review: La Traviata
The great Verdi’s masterpieces each have a special quality about them. Aida is power. Il Trovatore is drama. La Traviata is beauty.
