The Girl of the Golden Met will be orange for the next week in honor of Kfir and Ariel Bibas z”l. May their memories be a blessing.
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My Night at the Opera: The Hours (PART 2)
Dreamy, floaty, yearning music opened Act 2. Kelli O’Hara’s exquisite voice shone like a moonbeam as Laura Brown wondered, “Heaven? Somebody else’s heaven?”
The Met’s Winter Operafest: January 2023
A pioneer of “realism”. A rom-com. A classic tragedy. A Reign of Terror drama.
New York’s New Year just got a lot more exciting...
My Night at the Opera: The Hours (PART 1)
Here’s a confession: I don’t like modern opera.
In light of that fact, it might be surprising that I went to see one at the Met, a world premiere no less. Well, I did, and even more surprisingly, I found it mesmerizing.
A Whimsical “Magic Flute” at the Met
Every December, as Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the new year dance nearer and nearer, scores of families flock to the Met with their children in tow.
The Met’s Winter Operafest: December 2022
While the Met presents fabulous, world-class opera year-round, two months in particular jumped out at me from the season book this year: December and January.
Met Opera Radio Review: La Traviata
The great Verdi’s masterpieces each have a special quality about them. Aida is power. Il Trovatore is drama. La Traviata is beauty.
