Music Review | New York City Opera : Opera Served as Comfort Food, Priced to Draw a Crowd
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The âOpera-for-Allâ concert at the New York State Theater on Thursday read like a tasting menu for City Operaâs fall season, with bits of Mozart, Massenet and Mascagni.
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The Gotham Chamber Opera is putting on Astor Piazzollaâs âMarÃ­a de Buenos Aires,â and if the fine young company does not quite have this tango-driven masterpiece in its embrace, it does well enough.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs new strategy of plugging sudden holes in its casts with big names has its beneficiaries.
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This summer, world music floods into New York City, introducing audiences to music with lower commercial profiles.
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New music is always plentiful in New York, if you look beyond the New York Philharmonic and the two big opera companies. But even that qualification may change soon.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs affecting revival of its 1997 production of Tchaikovskyâs âEugene Oneginâ is all the more impressive because it might have turned out so differently.
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By Chris Shull, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 1--In the summertime, opera unbuttons its collar and relaxes its stuffy image.   At park amphitheaters and bucolic outdoor venues, grand opera becomes grand entertainment, less potent theater and more a popular outing.
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Alan Gilbert is part of a one-two punch of dynamic new conductors facing New York audiences this fall.
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If the people won't go to the opera, bring the opera to them -- and when they least expect it.
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After the buildup to the opening night of the season, you can expect a certain falloff. But the second night of the Metropolitan Operaâs season on Tuesday was terrific.
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Despite considerable vocal talent, the opera felt like a lush garden going to seed.
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Mozart and his librettist labeled it a "jolly play," but there was no happy end to the premiere of Vienna's newest "Don Giovanni." In fact the stage resembled a slaughterhouse.
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Performances from New York's famous Metropolitan Opera are to be broadcast live on satellite radio.
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The city, a paradise for live but usually expensive music, also has a vast network of bars and restaurants that waive a cover charge.
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Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" unfolds with the intensity of an uninterrupted nightmare in the dark new production that premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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The Metropolitan Operaâs current production of âCarmenâ offers a kind of tension: between the essential actions of the story and the gaily bustling pageantry of Franco Zeffirelliâs 1996 staging.
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Itâs always an event when a tenor takes on Otello for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera.