Met’s family-friendly Magic Flute vanquishes the forces of darkness

Par Linda Holt, 16 décembre 2019

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“a unified and glorious production whose proportions and craft the Masons themselves would applaud”

Critique faite à Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York, le 15 décembre 2019

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte) (Sung in English)

Metropolitan Opera

Lothar Koenigs, Direction

Julie Taymor, Mise en scène, Costumes, Puppet designs

George Tsypin, Décors

Joélle Harvey, Pamina

David Portillo, Tamino

Kathryn Lewek, Reine de la nuit

Joshua Hopkins, Papageno

Morris Robinson, Sarastro

Patrick Carfizzi, L'Orateur (Der Sprecher)

Rodell Rosel, Monostatos

Ashley Emerson, Papagena

Donald Holder, Lumières

Mark Dendy, Chorégraphie

The Metropolitan Opera 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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Linda Holt

Linda Holt writes about classical music for broadstreetreview.com and newyorkclassicalreview.com, with a special interest in the life and works of Beethoven. She has a doctorate in arts-and-letters from Drew University (U.S.), studied music theory and history at Rider University, and teaches humanities courses. She is president of the Princeton Research Forum ( princetonresearchforum.org ) and member of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society and American Beethoven Society. As L.L. Holt, she is the author of two acclaimed novels based on Beethoven’s early years: Invictus (Harvard Square Editions, 2019) and The Black Spaniard (Unsolicited Press, 2016).