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Bruckner: Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin

New York CityThe Met Orchestra

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Mahler
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Joyce DiDonato

LondonThe Met Orchestra Plays Strauss

BBC Proms
Strauss R.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever

LondonThe Met Orchestra Plays Mahler

BBC Proms
Saariaho, Mahler
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Joyce DiDonato

LucerneThe Met Orchestra

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Mazzoli, Mahler
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Joyce DiDonato

ParisThe Met Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin / Elza van den Heever - R. Strauss

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Strauss R.
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Elza van den Heever
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The Met’s Frida y Diego proves visually stunning, musically thrilling

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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. 
*****
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Asmik Grigorian strengthens the Met’s revival of Eugene Onegin

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The Lithuanian soprano’s riveting performance as the central character in Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece lights up Deborah Warner’s mostly bland production.

****1
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Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

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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. 
*****
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Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music

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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
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Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life

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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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Ailyn Pérez is the perfect Butterfly in the Met’s revival

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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. 
*****
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