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OperaPost: June 2014
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Saturday, June 21, 2014. World War II and the Met Roster. Those who Did not Come: 2. Germaine Lubin. In 1939, Lubin was engaged for the 1940-41 Met season for performances that included the company premiere of Alceste. Brünnhilde, Sieglinde, Elsa, Elisabeth, Kundry, but not Sieglinde or the Götterdämmerung. Brünnhilde), and a variety of French roles. To the int...
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OperaPost: October 2014
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Friday, October 24, 2014. The Death of Klinghoffer at the Met, 2. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the new post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. For two frequently cited opposing positions on this question central to the opera’s reception, click on. His reversal may have been due in p...
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OperaPost: April 2014
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. I Puritani I: Sopranos. Three titles by Vincenzo Bellini have been presented during the Met’s 2013-14 season. This feast for Belliniphiles is unprecedented in the company’s history. Each of the operas has featured at least one excellent individual performance, sometimes more. In the first cast of Norma. In my April 6 post. I Puritani.
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OperaPost: May 2014
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Rossini’s opera buffa came to the U.S.A. in 1825 with the first troupe of singers to perform opera in Italian in New York. Promoted by Mozart librettist and Columbia professor Lorenzo Da Ponte, Manuel Garcia, who had himself been Almaviva in the Rome world premiere of Il Barbiere di Siviglia,. Victoria de los Angeles. Sunday, May 11, 2014.
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OperaPost: September 2014
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Friday, September 26, 2014. Mozart at the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the new post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. The Metropolitan opened its 2014-15 season last Monday evening, September 22, with a new production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. In the ...
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OperaPost: May 2015
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Friday, May 15, 2015. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the new post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. This past January, noted Russian mezzo-soprano. Elena Obraztsova died in Leipzig at the age of 75. Obraztsova made her debut as Marina in Boris Godunov. And War and Peace. In the Rimsk...
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OperaPost: Setting Pagliacci Then
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the nclipew post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. The Metropolitan’s new productions of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. And Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. And Der Fliegende Holländer. Had come in under budget (imagine that! Adopted...
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OperaPost: March 2015
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Monday, March 23, 2015. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the new post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. This post is devoted to Licia Albanese. The year was 1939. Italian opera singers had been barred by the Mussolini regime from travelling to the. Street theatre, she kissed her hand a...
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OperaPost: February 2015
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Reviewing the present, rehearsing the past. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron: Publications. Friday, February 27, 2015. Rossini and the Stars. Note to those who receive new posts via e-mail: You must click on the title of the new post, highlighted above in blue, in order to access images and sound. First staged in the company’s inaugural season, 1883-1884, and since then the recipient of six new productions. Il Barbiere. At the Met, the Rossini era was...
