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Arsen Soghomonyan (Herman) © Ken Howard | Met Opera

Exciting debut elevates Met Queen of Spades

By Cameron Kelsall, 04 June 2025

Galina Cheplakova steps in for Sonya Yoncheva in the penultimate performance of this revival, winning over the audience with vocal clarity and dramatic commitment.

***11

***11

New York City

04 Jun 2025

Exciting debut elevates Met Opera The Queen of Spades

By Cameron Kelsall

Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher ) and Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean) © Karen Almond | Met Opera

New York City

A vision of Death Row: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking opens the Met season

By Robert Levine, 26 September 2023

The Metropolitan Opera makes good on its promise to present more contemporary work, opening the season with Jake Heggie's gut wrenching tale of rage and redemption.

*****

*****

New York City

26 Sep 2023

A vision of Death Row: Heggie’s Dead Man Walking opens the Met season

By Robert Levine

New York City

Matthew Aucoin's timeless mythology Eurydice opens at The Metropolitan Opera

By Kurt Gottschalk, 23 November 2021

Hell is a cold place with black walls and a black moon in Mary Zimmermann's production, which premiered at Los Angeles Opera in early 2020, and transfers to New York.

****1

****1

New York City

23 Nov 2021

Matthew Aucoin's timeless mythology Eurydice opens at The Met

By Kurt Gottschalk

New York City

Tight ensemble over Sher’s exsanguinated Otello at The Met

By Courtney Smith, 20 April 2016

Little mark of Shakespeare's drama or Verdi's passion behind Bartlett Sher's exsanguinated, highly-stylized Otello for The Metropolitan Opera.

**111

**111

New York City

20 Apr 2016

Sher’s exsanguinated Otello at The Met

By Courtney Smith

New York City

Unfocused, unmagnetic Otello opens Met Season

By Robert Levine, 21 September 2015

Bartlett Sher’s new production of Verdi's Otello opens the Metropolitan Opera's season in a staging dominated by multimedia sets.

***11

***11

New York City

21 Sep 2015

Unfocused, unmagnetic Otello opens Met Season

By Robert Levine

San Diego

It’s Primetime in the USA: Nixon in China gets its close-up at San Diego Opera

By Matthew Richard Martinez, 14 March 2015

James Robinson's production of Adams' Nixon in China hits its stride at San Diego Opera.

****1

****1

San Diego

14 Mar 2015

Nixon in China: It’s Primetime in the USA

By Matthew Richard Martinez