Metropolitan Opera
January 29
Verdi: Rigoletto
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Metropolitan Opera This Week!
January 29
Verdi: Rigoletto
Saturday Opera with Lane Whitesell
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2021-2022 Operas within Driving Distance
February 13. Massenet: Cendrillon
The 2018 performance featured the sets, originally designed at Santa Fe Opera, and Joyce diDonato, who was the star in Santa Fe. It also featured Alice Coote as Prince Charming and Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother. I hope you enjoy this performance as much as I have enjoyed it.
February 6. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
This 1956 performance was Maria Callas's only Metropolitan Opera radio performance. It won the competition for Listeners' Choice for this season.
January 30. Gounod: Faust
This 2011 performance was a Live in HD event. The sets and updating the action to post-World War II were not everyone's favorite, but the singers were well-matched and good actors. Jonas Kaufmann and Marina Poplovskaya were the lovers with Rene Pape as Mefistofeles.
January 23. Verdi: Il Trovatore
This was the joint debut of both Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli (Leonora and Manrico), with Met stars Robert Merrill and Irene Dalis (Count di Luna and Azucena) making up the star quartet. A truly historic performance for this year of archival material.
January 16. Verdi: La Traviata
This is a repeat of last year's La Traviata with Alexandra Kurzak as the title character with Dmitri Popov as Alfredo and Quinn Kelsey as Germont Senior.
