Work: Médée/Medea

Four years after the Met’s first-ever staging of Cherubini’s rarely performed take on Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy, the opera returns with the Bulgarian soprano conquering the notoriously difficult title role.

To rebuild Maria Callas’s 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus, Greek National Opera withstands it, but then comes the final act...

A new Medea at the Teatro di San Carlo presents three distinct visions – neoclassical in the pit, expressionistic on stage and conceptual in the direction – that never fully merge.