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Here’s Lucy
The breaking news from San Francisco Opera is that Nadine Sierra will sing the title role of in their new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, replacing Diana Damrau, who will not.
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Barton glances
I’m giving my age away here by saying that I am unfortunate enough to remember how Rudy Giuliani would sometimes drop by the Met airwaves and claim he was a “huge” opera fan. The most mild inquiries...
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Tucker everlasting
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala promises (note, promises) a particularly glittery roster this year: Jamie Barton, Javier Camarena, Joyce DiDonato, Yusif Eyvazov, Renée Fleming, Anna...
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Are the stars out tonight?
This year’s Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert at Carnegie Hall, though marginally less starry than last year’s, promises 2017 Tucker Award winner, soprano Nadine Sierra, joined by...
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Music and lyric
Soprano Nadine Sierra has been named the winner of the 13th annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera. The $50,000 award, the largest of its kind in the United...
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Paris mismatch
Now that Diana Damrau has withdrawn from Les Huguenots at the Opéra de Paris (and congratulations to Lisette Oropesa, who is jumping in to make her role debut as Queen Marguerite!), La Cieca is almost...
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Stained class
The title of a Brecht play I have remembered since college: Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe—Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Well, think of this as Lucia of the Truckstop. One might expect in the...
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On a par with tuberculosis
This season marks four years since Willy Decker’s stylish, insightful La traviata was ousted at the Met, and Michael Mayer’s grimly tacky replacement is still turning what should be appointment opera,...
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A fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes
Popular culture has transplanted those two lovers out of Verona and into as many reconfigurations, adaptations and parodies as there are stars to cross in the sky. Indeed, it’s often difficult to...
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Brazilian brass lift
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has for a long time emerged as one of the world’s great orchestras. It is a treat to see these faces who usually are down in the pit working as part of an anonymous...
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