The Met's Merry Widow fails to convince

Par Edward Sava-Segal, 18 décembre 2017

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“veteran baritone Sir Thomas Allen... proved how a secondary character can sway the stage”

Critique faite à Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, le 16 décembre 2017

Lehár, Die Lustige Witwe (La Veuve joyeuse)

Metropolitan Opera

Ward Stare, Direction

Susan Stroman, Mise en scène

Julian Crouch, Décors

William Ivey Long, Costumes

Susan Graham, Hanna Glawari (ou Missia Palmieri)

Andriana Chuchman, Valencienne (ou Nadia)

Paul Groves, Comte Danilo Danilovitch (ou Prince Danilo)

Sir Thomas Allen, Baron Mirko Zeta (ou Baron Popoff dans l'adaptation française)

David Portillo, Camille de Rosillon (ou Camille de Coutançon)

The Metropolitan Chorus

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

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

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.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.