YNS, Met Orchestra and Bruckner challenge and reward at Carnegie Hall

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Par David Wolfson, 12 juin 2026

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“The primary impression was that the music breathed”

Critique faite à Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York, le 11 juin 2026

Bruckner, Symphonie no. 8 en ut mineur, WAB 108

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Direction

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

The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling

David Wolfson, 22nd May

Deborah Colker and her design team create visually vibrant worlds for the Met’s new production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego, by Pulitzer Prize winner Gabriela Lena Frank.

*****

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

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David Wolfson

David Wolfson holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.