La classe américaine : The Met Orchestra et Yannick Nézet-Séguin

L'Orchestre du Metropolitan Opera et Yannick Nézet-Séguin

By Tristan Labouret, 29 June 2023

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“Un modèle d’art lyrique orchestral, qui donne envie d’entendre la formation en fosse”

Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 27 June 2023

Bernstein, West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Aucoin, Heath

Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture

Verdi, Otello: Act 4

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Angel Blue, Soprano

Russell Thomas, Tenor

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Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 28 June 2023

Berlioz, Le Corsaire, Op.21: Overture

Berlioz, Les Troyens: Chers Tyriens

Berlioz, Les Troyens: Chasse royale et orage

Berlioz, Les Troyens: Ah! Ah! Je vais mourir! … Adieu, fière cité

Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-soprano

Asmik Grigorian strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin

Susan Stempleski, 20th April

The Lithuanian soprano’s riveting performance as the central character in Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece lights up Deborah Warner’s mostly bland production.

****1

Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

Kurt Gottschalk, 6th April

At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace.

*****

Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music

No’a L. bat Miri, 9th March

Michael Spyres shines in his debut as Tristan alongside powerhouse soprano Lise Davidsen as Isolde in Yuval Sharon's new, beguiling production at the Metropolitan Opera.

***11

Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life

Susan Stempleski, 4th February

William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, overlooked for decades, heads an all-American program of 20th-century works in New York.

****1

Ailyn Pérez is the perfect Butterfly in the Met’s revival

Robert Levine, 13th January

Good Butterflys are not that difficult to come by but great ones are very very rare. Ailyn Pérez fits the bill in this revival of Anthony Minghella’s classic staging.

*****

Vocal thrills in Met’s traditional staging of Bellini’s I puritani

Susan Stempleski, 31st December

Marco Armiliato conducts a finely balanced rendition of Bellini's final masterpiece with a stellar cast headed by Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee.

*****

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.

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