Metropolitan Opera

The opera Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera was conducted by Pablo Heras Casado. The three principal singers were Piotr Beczala as the Duke, Zeljko Lucic as Rigoletto and Olga Peretyatko as Gilda. This being my first opera, I was surprised by how large and grandiose the house was, which is in sharp contrast to my typical experience when I see musicals.The production decided to place a modern twist on the setting of the opera, rather than the original setting of 16th century Italy, the story is

After I watched Carmen, what impressed me the most is Ms.Garanča’s performance and the music of this opera. I think the music wonderfully shapes principal’s personality and Ms.Garanča’s performance made Carmen more vivid. She performed this opera in The Metropolitan Opera in 2010. In the first act, when Ms.Garanča sang "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", I can tell Carmen’s charm and uninhibited personality. She knows that she is very attractive to men, so she is very confident about herself

The Metropolitan Opera is an association steeped in fine musical history. It has presented some of the greatest operas of all time, and its standards are among the highest of classical music organizations. The Met, as it is commonly called, is one of the premier opera stages in the world and has helped many great singers find fame and discovery. Moreover, it is also one of the largest opera stages in the world. This leading opera company has an astounding history of artistic and musical stature.

The Magic Flute is one of the performance from the Metropolitan Opera. According to the book (The art of Listening Music), The Magic Flute is a German opera that has some serious with comic implications. It was performed on December 30, 2006. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was the fantastic composer of this stunning piece. He created this song as a fairy tale. The librettist is Emanuel Schikaneder. The Magic Flute is performed by not only an orchestra but also a chorus. The show is a musical

Thinking about the questions brought up in class as well as this week's articles made me realize that the City Opera is "in the shadow of the Metropolitan Opera." In the review of Madame Butterfly, the author asks: “What is being played? How is it orchestrated? What are the quality of the voices? What kind of balances can the conductor manage?” which are all important questions when evaluating a space for a particular event. The author also points out that “when we start thinking like engineers,

Marian Anderson is remembered as one of the best American contraltos of all time. She was the first African American singer to perform at the White House and also the first African American to sing with New York's Metropolitan Opera. Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia on Feb. 17, 1902. She never had much money, but she was happy. All of them, her mother, dad, and younger sisters Alyce and Ethel just liked to be together. One thing that may have been different from other childhood is that she

conductor for the Boston Opera Company after which only two years he was promoted to artistic director. After another two years, he would volunteer for the French army where he would be injured and end his conducting career. Caplet died at the early age of 47 in 1925 from pleurisy. Deux Divertissements was written in 1924, only one year before Caplet’s death. The word divertissements in a French context means to interject a short dance and or song in the middle of an opera or ballet. The piece, containing

Mary Gaitskill uses a third person perspective, along with crafty diction and insightful allusions to keep her reader’s in suspense through her piece of “Tiny, Smiling Daddy”. It is with these tools that Gaitskill is able to slowly change our perceptions of the narrator from likeable to confusion and ultimately ending in dislike. “Tiny, Smiling Daddy” is told in the third person limited point of view through the father, Stew. This point of view is vital to our understanding of events, in that

James Levine’s symphony at Chicago Symphony Orchestra. James Levine is an American pianist and conductor, mainly known for being a music director of the Metropolitan Opera. He suffered many health conditions that have put his conducting aside. At the end of 2015, he left his position as a director to become an emeritus of the Metropolitan Opera. One of the interesting facts about Mr. Levine is that many of the sources do not mention is his disability. Mr. Levine is in a wheelchair and needs assistance

The main focus of this paper is going to be about Mahler’s youth and also his second symphony ‘Resurrection’. Since there is little information regarding his youth in Vienna (1875-1880)it is necessary to do a situational analysis of Mahler’s context, in which I will try to establish a connection between the socio-political context and the young Mahler, based on situational logic. It is also necessary to recall Mahler’s childhood years to understand the whole effect of his work. Therefore, this paper