Tag: Metropolitan Opera
Latonia Moore Once Again Faces Down Verdi’s “Aida”
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
Leslie Burrs Gives Voice to “I Can’t Breathe”
"If this helps to open your eyes to what is more just, what is more equal, then that is one of the things to take away from this experience today."
Baritone Etienne Dupuis Strives for Perfection…
"I think one of the hardest things to do is to strive for perfection and then have the humility to recognize that you did your best."
Top 10 of 2021
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of...
Fire Shut Up in my Bones – Terence Blanchard’s Second Opera
"I did resonate with how his family labeled him a peculiar kid. I experienced that growing up, not from my family, but the neighborhood."
Anthony Roth Costanzo Defines His Place in Opera
"I think what Dionysus and Dracula both try and show through being the stranger and the outsider is that we are all the same basically. "
Conductor Harry Bicket On the Perfect Opera
"Even Verdi when he was writing his Shakespeare operas he didn't dare actually take on Shakespeare's text. Britten is one of the few people in history that actually set Shakespeare's text and all but one sentence is the original Shakespeare."
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s 12-Year Journey with “The Lord of...
""In the martini of this show, the gin is Euripides and a rinse of vermouth is Stoker. It's like a Victorian staging of the Bacchae with a little swirl of the Dracula."
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s 12-Year Journey with “The Lord of...
""In the martini of this show, the gin is Euripides and a rinse of vermouth is Stoker. It's like a Victorian staging of the Bacchae with a little swirl of the Dracula."
Week 71 at the Met: The Final Week
Metropolitan Opera Website
July 19th - July 25th
Final Streaming Week
July 19th - July 25th
Final Streaming Week