Puccini: La Bohème: Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Nicola Luisotti, Renée Fleming, Ludovic Tézier, Ramón Vargas. Imagine a world where taste and sensitivity have been overrun by gaudy excess and marketing hyperbole, where Puccini's quiet, intimate love-story can at last be told with A Cast of Thousands and a Real, Live Military Marching Band.
The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition serves to discover promising young opera singers throughout North America and assist in their artistic and professional development. More than 1,000 applicants participate in a series of auditions leading up to the Grand Finals Concert, which will be held on Sunday, March 17, 2024
PHOTO: KAREN ALMOND/ MET OPERA The Metropolitan Opera is pleased to salute Bloomberg Philanthropies in recognition of its generous support during the 2022–23 season. A scene from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte 2022–23 SeaSon Bloomberg_Jun23_DedicationWeekSignage_PLAYBILL.indd 1 5/22/23 9:48 AM Synopsis Act I Paris, in the 1830s. la bohème GIACOMO PUCCINI Opera in four acts Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème by Henri Murger 8:00–11:05pm The production of La Bohème was made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Donald D. Harrington The revival of this production is made possible by aLa Bohème Vittorio Grigolo and Anita Hartig in this Puccini opera at the Metropolitan Opera. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera. In his book “Opera as Drama,” the musicologist Joseph Kerman, who
Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Champion. Terence Blanchard’s First Opera is A Work in Search of its Identity. By David Salazar. Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer’s “Champion” made its Met Opera premiere on April 10, 2023 to a nearly sold-out crowd. Just entering the main lobby, you were met with a 10-minute line to pick up Opera synopsis courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. Funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: “La Bohème” has been provided by Toll Brothers, the Irene Diamond Fund, The realism and directness of La Bohème, however, sit uneasily with multiple layers of reference and postmodern irony, and Metherell’s staging on occasion leaves Puccini swamped. Her basic ideala bohème GIACOMO PUCCINI general manager Peter Gelb jeanette lerman-neubauer music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin Opera in four acts Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème by Henri Murger Sunday, January 9, 2022 3:00–6:05 pm The production of La Bohème was made
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