Don Pasquale, Metropolitan Opera live cinema relay, November 2010
Posted on 14 November 2010There was electricity aplenty, and that marvellous Act 3 duet between Kwiecien and Del Carlo was carried off with wonderful speed and sparkle.
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Simon Boccanegra, Metropolitan Opera live relay, February 2010
Posted on 7 February 2010… she meets Boccanegra, finding out that he is her real father. This recognition scene was marvellously done, and I only wish I had seen it on stage …
Carmen, Metropolitan Opera live relay, January 2010
Posted on 16 January 2010At the end of this opera, Roberto Alagna as Don Jose made me think that here is the man who killed the gypsy, which says something about the success of this new production by Richard Eyre.
Der Rosenkavalier, Metropolitan Opera live relay, January 2010
Posted on 10 January 2010Renée Fleming’s … soliloquy on the passing of time in Act I was done with immense sensitivity and feeling. What a performer!
Turandot, Metropolitan Opera live relay, November 2009
Posted on 8 November 2009… this opera was brilliantly performed. And it shows the Met to be setting a template for opera performance that puts into a shadow some of the more confusing and hyper-intellectual nonsense that one occasionally meets.
Aida, Metropolitan Opera live relay, October 2009
Posted on 25 October 2009… a heavy weight production well matched by the singers, who were superb.
La Sonnambula, live cinema screening from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, March 2009
Posted on 22 March 2009With Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez as the lovers Amina and Elvino, this promised to be a superb performance and it was.