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In the years following the Civil War, the new moneyed aristocracy began to feel that the old, 1850s-era Academy of Music no longer met the necessities of New York high society.
But in his evocative new opera, celebrated American composer Matthew Aucoin reimagines the story. If you don't have the opportunity to take in a performance, you can take a backstage tour or a Tour of the Lincoln Center for a fee. The Metropolitan Opera House, also known as the Old Met, was a large opera house on Broadway in New York City. Learn MoreBook Online06FebruarySunday The Met Opera. During the off season for the Met the Opera House hosts performances by the American Ballet Theatre and other touring ballets and operas. It seats about 3800 patrons with room for about another 195 standees and provides excellent acoustics. The present home of the Metropolitan Opera is the magnificent Metropolitan Opera House, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway. Performances are held Monday through Saturday evenings along with a Saturday afternoon matinee. Known as the 'Met' they feature around 30 different operas a wide range of musical genres throughout their season which runs from the latter part of September through to May. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D.New York City's Metropolitan Opera Company has been giving performances since 1883. Coe Weir Endowment FundĪdditional funding from The Jaharis Family Foundation, The H.M. In an impressive fall trifecta at the Met, Maestro Carlo Rizzi conducts Medea, in addition to Don Carlo and Tosca.Ī co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Greek National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Lyric Opera of Chicago Joining Radvanovsky are tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea’s Argonaut husband, Giasone soprano Janai Brugger as her rival for his love, Glauce bass Michele Pertusi as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea’s confidante, Neris. The Met premiere of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece marks Radvanovsky’s fourth new production with director David McVicar, who also designed the sets for this vivid, atmospheric staging, simultaneously classical, updated, and timeless. Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky opens the new season as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance-a tour-de-force role made famous by opera’s ultimate diva, Maria Callas.
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