This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows soprano Karita Mattila, center, Paul Corona, left, and Karen Cargill during a performance of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at the ...
Anyone flipping through the galley copies of Joe Volpe’s upcoming Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera will come across some tough talk about Karita Mattila’s famous ...
The Metropolitan Opera heads into its 20th week of free streaming performances through its Nightly Met Streams series. Among the new lineup are two productions directed by Tony winner Mary Zimmerman: ...
Robert Wilson’s staging of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened to a wall of boos in 1998. But it brought new theatrical possibilities to the Met. By Zachary Woolfe Our critics and writers have selected ...
NEW YORK — The years take their toll on Emilia Marty. She has seen friends and lovers die, watched joy and despair come and go. But she is more jaded than most in her old age, and with good reason.
Diva doesn’t have to be a four-letter word. A term that’s come to denote arrogance was regarded as a compliment for centuries, describing an opera singer with star power, a female lead who steals ...
As we approach month five of the enforced absence of live opera in New York City, the practice of viewing streams of archival performances has quietly become the new normal. (I have almost forgotten ...
But her latest portrayal, the rigidly moral stepmother Kostelnicka in Janacek’s Jenufa, may be her greatest creation of all. At Friday night’s opening performance of this revival, she dominated every ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Leos Janacek’s “The Makropulos Case” is sci-fi mystery, filtered through the neurotic urban mindset of Prague in the early 20th century. There is much to explain about this strange ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Her character suffers through one of the most harrowing deathbed scenes in all of opera. But that doesn’t faze Karita Mattila, who’s looking forward to performing it as “quite an ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Her character suffers through one of the most harrowing deathbed scenes in all of opera. But that doesn't faze Karita Mattila, who's looking forward to performing it as "quite an ...
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