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Joana Mallwitz makes a radiant Met debut leading a vigorous Figaro
A rising German conductor draws superb playing from the orchestra in the Met’s fifth revival of Richard Eyre’s witty 2014 production.
Met Opera revives Le nozze di Figaro with musical style
In its revival of the 2014 production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, the Metropolitan Opera offers a satisfying blend of comic antics, beautifully realized music, and some top-notch singing in several roles.
Upstairs Downstairs comedy in Washington
With the many glories of the score and the easy butts of class and marital comedy, it is hard not to be pleased by a Figaro performance, although tonight’s did not sparkle as much as it might have.
Nature’s bonfire burns on: Zambello’s Die Walküre
Zambello's Die Walküre engages and excites in this promising Ring cycle.
Manifest destiny and doom
Das Rheingold stages flawed American Ambitions in the first Ring Cycle in Washington DC.
An underwhelming Dialogues of the Carmelites
A safe performance of Poulenc's extraordinary opera in Washington, lacking in pity and terror.