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Met’s new launch of Wagner classic slow to catch sail

7 Mar 20 / Classical Voice North America

Gergiev's hand on the tiller makes heavy weather of Giraud's new Dutchman

6 Mar 20 / Limelight

Stunning visuals, but François Girard's new Fliegende Holländer disappoints at The Met

5 Mar 20 / Bachtrack

Girard's disappointing new Dutchman drops anchor at the Met

5 Mar 20 / Broadway World

Anja Kampe’s Senta truly saves this disappointing Dutchman production

4 Mar 20 / OperaWire

Vivid vocalism keeps Met’s muddled “Dutchman” afloat

4 Mar 20 / Classical Review

A dark drab dud

4 Mar 20 / parterre box

A new ‘Flying Dutchman’ makes landfall at the Met Opera

4 Mar 20 / New York Times

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Streaming : le «gala à la maison» du Metropolitan Opera fait demeurer l’espoir

28 Apr 20 / Opera Online (French)

Attending a Met Opera Gala without ever leaving my couch

28 Apr 20 / Vogue

Le Gala “confiné” du Met Opera, l’art lyrique de chez-soi pour un plaisir sans frontières

27 Apr 20 / Olyrix

Le At-Home Gala du Met : «the Voice must be heard»

27 Apr 20 / ResMusica

Silenced by coronavirus, Met Opera links biggest names in classical music for digital global gala

27 Apr 20 / Associated Press

Met's round-the-world, At-Home Gala proves “music is nutrition for our souls”

27 Apr 20 / Broadway World

The top 7 moments from the Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala (and one major misstep)

27 Apr 20 / OperaWire

Le grand zapping

27 Apr 20 / Forum Opéra

Informal yet profoundly moving

27 Apr 20 / New York Times

Thrilling singing, live from the stars’ living-rooms

27 Apr 20 / The Guardian

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Piquante et charismatique Agrippina de Joyce DiDonato en direct du Met

3 Mar 20 / Olyrix

DiDonato sparkles in voice and style as Met’s Agrippina

22 Feb 20 / Classical Voice North America

Great voices and coked-up staging in the Met’s Agrippina

15 Feb 20 / Vulture

La Agrippina de Didonato y McVicar en Nueva York, oxígeno para el Met

13 Feb 20 / Opera World (Spanish)

DiDonato and McVicar's take on Handel's Agrippina have the Met audience in their grip

9 Feb 20 / Broadway World

Met’s modern-dress “Agrippina” stylishly balances comedy and deeper emotions

8 Feb 20 / Classical Review

Keep the Rome fires burning

8 Feb 20 / parterre box

The Met Opera is Handel's house in 'Agrippina'

8 Feb 20 / New York Times

‘Eurydice’ and ‘Agrippina’: Voices lost and found

8 Feb 20 / Wall Street Journal

Joyce DiDonato and Brenda Rae are dominant dueling divas in David McVicar’s masterful modern take on Handel’s political comedy

8 Feb 20 / OperaWire

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La Traviata vuelve al Met, con una Aleksandra Kurzak irreconocible

29 Jan 20 / Opera World (Spanish)

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses as the Met’s new Violetta

14 Jan 20 / Bachtrack

Kurzak triumphs in Met’s “Traviata”

13 Jan 20 / Classical Review

Aleksandra Kurzak lights up Michael Mayer’s increasingly comatose production

13 Jan 20 / OperaWire

Flawless!

13 Jan 20 / parterre box

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A delicate balance

18 Feb 20 / parterre box

Met’s Coney Island “Così” returns to dazzle and distract

18 Feb 20 / Classical Review

‘Così’ at the Met, as mild as a Coney Island morning

17 Feb 20 / New York Times

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Let your love flow

19 Nov 19 / parterre box

Richard Eyre’s staging of the classic Mozart comedy seems imposing. But it comes off too mild

18 Nov 19 / New York Times

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Berlioz bare, and beautiful

28 Jan 20 / The New Criterion

Keeper of the flame

28 Jan 20 / parterre box

Garanca’s Marguerite buoys a disappointing, downscaled “Faust”

28 Jan 20 / Classical Review

Musically, this is a largely impressive event

28 Jan 20 / Classical Source

Garanca glows in The Met's Damnation de Faust

28 Jan 20 / Bachtrack

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George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in triumphant return to New York’s Metropolitan Opera

26 Oct 19 / World Socialist Web Site

Star-crossed pairings in “Porgy and Bess” and “Denis & Katya"

8 Oct 19 / The New Yorker

David Robertson and a fine cast deliver a detailed reading of Gershwin's masterpiece that should silence naysayers

4 Oct 19 / Limelight

Met’s new Porgy is lavish, stylized, propulsive staging

28 Sep 19 / Classical Voice North America

A thoroughly worthy Porgy and Bess opens the Met's season

27 Sep 19 / Bachtrack

A musically satisfying, culturally cautious revival at the Met

26 Sep 19 / am New York

A gorgeous Porgy and Bess, its flaws intact, at the Metropolitan Opera

25 Sep 19 / Vulture

Met opens season with a heartening and memorable “Porgy and Bess”

25 Sep 19 / Classical Review

Met Opera offers a ‘Porgy’ of its time that speaks to ours

25 Sep 19 / Washington Post

Eric Owens, Latonia Moore, Angel Blue lead a fantastic cast in Gershwin classic on opening night

25 Sep 19 / OperaWire

A splendid ‘Porgy and Bess’ opens the Met Opera season

25 Sep 19 / New York Times

All I cared about was Bess

25 Sep 19 / parterre box

‘Porgy and Bess’ misses its protagonist on opening night at the Met

25 Sep 19 / New York Observer

Eric Owens and Angel Blue give terrific performances

25 Sep 19 / Classical Source

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Wozzeck complexe et percutant en direct du Metropolitan Opera

14 Jan 20 / Olyrix

William Kentridge's mesmerising and melancholy staging still astonishes

13 Jan 20 / Telegraph

Bleak and hopeless: William Kentridge's Wozzeck at the Met

7 Jan 20 / Bachtrack

A completely enthralling and moving operatic experience

6 Jan 20 / Classical Source

Met audiences learn to love Wozzeck in Kentridge production

5 Jan 20 / Broadway World

A grungy, glorious new Wozzeck at the Met

4 Jan 20 / Vulture

Nightmare descent into stark madness

2 Jan 20 / Classical Voice North America

In the Met’s new ‘Wozzeck,’ the only drama is in the music

1 Jan 20 / New York Observer

The searing beauty of Kentridge's 'Wozzeck' at the Met

30 Dec 19 / New York Times

Every snarl and shimmer

29 Dec 19 / parterre box

An overwhelming experience with little payoff and an underwhelming performance

29 Dec 19 / OperaWire

Yannick Nézet-Séguin unleashes ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met

29 Dec 19 / Philadelphia Inquirer

Kentridge’s “Wozzeck” paints an industrialized nightmare in Met premiere

29 Dec 19 / Classical Review

Langsam, Wozzeck, Langsam

29 Dec 19 / ConcertoNet (English)

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Ailyn Pérez and Matthew Polenzani are golden in revival of Puccini classic

2 Nov 19 / OperaWire

We’ll always have Paris

29 Oct 19 / parterre box

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At the Met, the classic ‘Rosenkavalier’ takes on a #MeToo spin

17 Dec 19 / New York Observer

Bass instinct

17 Dec 19 / parterre box

Camilla Nylund makes impressive Met debut in Rosenkavalier revival

17 Dec 19 / Bachtrack

A radiant revival of ‘Der Rosenkavalier’

16 Dec 19 / New York Times

Sir Simon Rattle and company concoct chamber-like intimacy in Strauss’ most versatile score

15 Dec 19 / OperaWire

Met’s satisfying “Rosenkavalier” reboot is more than the sum of its parts

15 Dec 19 / Classical Review

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You better sit down kids

17 Dec 19 / parterre box

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A visually sumptuous and imaginative Akhnaten production from the Met

26 Nov 19 / Seen and Heard

Juggling on the Nile

23 Nov 19 / Seen and Heard

Glass' Akhnaten mesmerizes at The Met

23 Nov 19 / Bachtrack

A new leader and new sounds at the Met: Philip Glass’s striking ‘Akhnaten’

18 Nov 19 / Washington Post

Philip Glass’ ‘Akhnaten’ is a somber triumph for the Met

17 Nov 19 / New York Observer

Akhnaten makes beguiling impact in vivid Met debut

16 Nov 19 / Classical Voice North America

Bring on the jugglers, Philip Glass's Akhnaten finally arrives at the Met

16 Nov 19 / Broadway World

Philip Glass’s masterpiece comes to the Metropolitan Opera, New York

13 Nov 19 / Financial Times (via Google)

Gleaming and self-aware, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten is borne to the Met

12 Nov 19 / Vulture

‘Akhnaten’ puts you on Philip Glass time

11 Nov 19 / New York Times

Music, beauty and jugglers make for a memorable night in Met’s “Akhnaten”

10 Nov 19 / Classical Review

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James lead the best Met production of the year

10 Nov 19 / OperaWire

A place in the sun

10 Nov 19 / parterre box

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Lise Davidsen's debut excites, but Vasily Petrenko and Yusif Eyvazov also shine in Tchaikovsky's tale of terror

3 Dec 19 / Limelight

Young soprano Lise Davidsen shines in The Queen of Spades

3 Dec 19 / Financial Times (via Google)

A triumphant Met debut for Lise Davidsen in The Queen of Spades

3 Dec 19 / Seen and Heard

Tchaikovsky’s tale of dark obsession sparkles with notable Met debuts

3 Dec 19 / Bachtrack

Lise Davidsen makes a radiant company debut in Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades”

2 Dec 19 / New York Times

Yusif Eyvasov dominated the Met premiere of Pikovaya Dama with a fearless, world-class portrayal

2 Dec 19 / parterre box

Lise Davidsen’s memorable debut leads strong cast in Met’s “Queen of Spades”

2 Dec 19 / Classical Review

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Hui He soars as Minghella's thoughtful Butterfly, though all is not at ease down below

25 Oct 19 / Limelight

Star singers carry uneven revivals of ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’

22 Oct 19 / New York Observer

Puppets and cherry blossoms

21 Oct 19 / parterre box

A good, if not particularly touching, Madama Butterfly from Hui He at the Met

19 Oct 19 / Bachtrack

‘Madama Butterfly,’ without its flesh-and-blood intensity

14 Oct 19 / New York Times

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In Gluck at the Met, voices align with dance-centric staging

24 Oct 19 / Seen and Heard

Jamie Barton, clad in a simple black costume, gives an outstanding characterization of Orfeo

23 Oct 19 / Classical Source

Met’s stylish “Orfeo” goes to hell and back in 90 minutes

22 Oct 19 / Classical Review

Drag me to hell

22 Oct 19 / parterre box

Star singers carry uneven revivals of ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’

22 Oct 19 / New York Observer

Mark Morris’s dancing ‘Orfeo’ returns to the Met Opera

22 Oct 19 / New York Times

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Massenet's Manon may not pass #MeToo muster, but Lisette Oropesa shines as all the stars align

25 Oct 19 / Limelight

Lisette Oropesa y Michael Fabiano brillan en la Manon del Met

23 Oct 19 / Opera World (Spanish)

At the Met, Oropesa shines as Manon

12 Oct 19 / Seen and Heard

Melodrama envelops ‘Manon’ and ‘Macbeth’ at the Met—onstage and off

5 Oct 19 / New York Observer

The Met's Manon a showcase for the charms of Tucker Award-winner Lisette Oropesa

27 Sep 19 / Broadway World

Oropesa shines brightly in Met’s lethargic “Manon”

27 Sep 19 / Classical Review

When a man loves a woman

27 Sep 19 / parterre box

Strong singing as the Met revives Massenet’s Manon

27 Sep 19 / Bachtrack

Lisette Oropesa and Michael Fabiano shine in Laurent Pelly’s plunge into the Male Gaze

26 Sep 19 / OperaWire

In ‘Manon,’ a soprano charms her way to the top

26 Sep 19 / New York Times

Languid self-pity falls flat in New York

26 Sep 19 / ConcertoNet (French)

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A barren emotional landscape barely disguised by the production’s kitsch fairy-tale opulence

14 Oct 19 / Planet Hugill

Christine Goerke and the Met Chorus dominate Turandot

12 Oct 19 / Bachtrack

Christine Goerke, Yusif Eyvazov and Eleonor Buratto give powerful and sincere performances

11 Oct 19 / OperaWire

Christine Goerke brought her Turandot to the house for the second time and did justice to the role

8 Oct 19 / Broadway World

Orientation

8 Oct 19 / parterre box

Not quite gold, but ‘Turandot’ still glitters as the Met’s first Sunday matinee

8 Oct 19 / New York Observer

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a revelatory ‘Turandot’

5 Oct 19 / New York Times

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A transfixing Netrebko awakens Met’s tired, post-Domingo “Macbeth”

27 Sep 19 / Classical Review

Portrait of a Lady on fire

27 Sep 19 / parterre box