Out of the pit and into the Alps with the MET Orchestra

Par David Allen, 15 octobre 2012

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Critique faite à Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York, le 14 octobre 2012

Wagner, Tannhäuser: ouverture

Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder (orch. Mottl)

Strauss R., Une symphonie alpestre (Eine Alpensinfonie), Op.64

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Semyon Bychkov, Direction

Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-soprano

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

Tristan Labouret, 27th June

En deux jours, avec des programmes associant pages symphoniques et extraits d'œuvres lyriques, l'orchestre new-yorkais a montré son art et ses singularités au public parisien, 22 ans après sa dernière venue en France.

****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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David Allen

David is a PhD student at Columbia University, where he studies international history. A lapsed pianist and organist, he writes on concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, and blogs at Unpredictable Inevitability.