Metropolitan Opera
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Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
His expansive theatrical vision embraced the outstanding work of the top-flight cast headed by Michael Spyres and Lise Davidsen in the title roles and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The Metropolitan Opera, for instance, commissioned “The Voyage” in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, but the epic opera is nowhere to be found in our semisesquicentennial year.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Major orchestras and opera companies — San Francisco Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, among them — feared fraught contract negotiations.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
Bobby had attended a performance of the French opera with his mother and sister at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York shortly before going to Europe.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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