NEW YORK — The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions — “Samson et Dalila” and “Tosca,” I’m looking at you — is that they don’t actively hinder the works being performed.
PROLOGUE and ACT ONE: In the heavens, brilliant trumpet-calls accompany a chorus of angels in praise of God. Mefistofele appears and interrupts the proceedings by offering God a wager — that he can ...
SAN FRANCISCO — From the moment the devil climbs out of the pit — the orchestra pit — and onto the stage at War Memorial Opera House, one gets the sense that San Francisco Opera’s season-opening ...
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The spectacular Robert Carsen production returns to the Met for the first time since 2000, with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as the diabolical title character, tenor Michael Fabiano as Faust, and ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Met is offering Robert Carsen's 1999 production of Arrigo Boito's ...
Although Arrigo Boito wrote several magnificent librettos for Verdi, he had his own ambitions as a composer. With Mefistofele, he intended to point the way forward for Italian opera but its 1868 ...
NEW YORK — The best that can be said for some recent Metropolitan Opera productions — “Samson et Dalila” and “Tosca,” I’m looking at you — is that they don’t actively hinder the works being performed.
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