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Met Opera 2023-24 Review: The Hours
What did I just witness? was the question that I kept asking myself, and failing to answer. What was that? The experience of seeing The Hours defies description, but I will describe mine to the best of my current ability.
Album Review: Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!
Golda Schultz’s voice is reminiscent of a vibrant flower opening its petals toward the sun, and Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy! is an exquisitely juicy album from one of the world’s most exquisite sopranos.
Met Opera 2023-24 Review: Roméo et Juliette
Romeo and Juliet reliably make you swoon and weep, but a truly worthy cast should make the “sweet sorrow” fresh each time. The cast the Met has assembled for Roméo et Juliette blows these and other standards away.
Met Opera 2023-24 Crítica: Florencia en el Amazonas
El debut histórico de Florencia en el Amazonas de Daniel Catán en la Ópera Metropolitana de Nueva York fue sin duda una de las experiencias más especiales, felices, y pues bien, mágicas que jamás he tenido.
Met Opera 2023-24 Review: Lise Davidsen in Recital
What better way to welcome the new season than with a smashing, double-encore, spine-tingling recital from La Davidsen? Lise is the Queen of Opera. Call her the new Callas, Nilsson, Flagstad, as you like it, but she’s really the one and only Lise.
Met Opera Radio Review: Norma
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Sonya Yoncheva sang magnificently, by turns gentle, passionate, ferocious, and devout.
