A masterful F. Murray Abraham in “Beckett Briefs,” and Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon in a take on “Streetcar.” ...
Streamlining Melville’s sprawling novel, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation has come to the Metropolitan Opera.
The New York company recently opened two underpowered productions: Jake Heggie’s 2010 adaptation of the Herman Melville ...
Oh, what a fascinating career: Brandon Jovanovich, operatic tenor from Billings, Montana, went from a cater waiter at the ...
How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan Opera beginning March 3 ... The action, Steve ...
“We had an E-350 white Ford Econoline van that we called the ‘fartbox,’ but also called ‘Moby-Dick’ after Leviathan came out,” he explained, adding, “The insides sort of smelled like the insides of ...
The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the ...
How he and his collaborators did it will be on display at the Metropolitan Opera beginning March 3 ... The action, Steve Smith wrote in The New York Times, “played out against a multimedia ...
NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 ...
It is the Metropolitan Opera’s job, some of us think ... Our conductor was Susanna Mälkki, from Finland, an excellent conductor, as she has proven many times in New York: guesting with the New York ...