The Met in HD, Il Trovatore, 2011

Par David Fay, 01 décembre 2013

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Critique faite à Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, le 4 avril 2011

Verdi, Le Trouvère

Metropolitan Opera

Marco Armiliato, Direction

Sir David McVicar, Mise en scène

Sondra Radvanovsky, Leonora

Dolora Zajick, Azucena

Marcelo Álvarez, Manrico

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Il conte di Luna

Maria Zifchak, Ines

Eduardo Valdes, Ruiz

Štefan Kocán, Ferrando

The Metropolitan Chorus

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

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

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.

*****

Porgy and Bess returns stronger than ever at the Met

Robert Levine, 7th December

Back to Catfish Row for another revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and James Robinson’s show continue to wow our writer.

*****

Singers bring passion and excitement to Met’s Andrea Chénier revival

Susan Stempleski, 24th November

The Metropolitan Opera kicks off this season’s revival of Umberto Giordano’s tempestuous melodrama with standout performances from a resplendent cast.

****1

Willis-Sørensen headlines a successful Arabella revival at the Met

Ako Imamura, 10th November

The Metropolitan Opera revives Otto Schenk’s venerable staging of Strauss’s intimate melodrama.

****1

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David Fay

David studied Music and French at Bristol University and is now undertaking a PhD in Musicology. His specialism is religious music but his musical passions range from Alkaline Trio to Zadok the Priest.