2 Video: First Look at Michael Mayer-Directed LA TRAVIATA at The Metropolitan Opera 3 Video: First Look at THE CRUCIBLE at Washington National Opera In April of 2010 the Metropolitan Opera mounted the ...

Mounting the company premiere of Rossini’s “Armida” at the Metropolitan Opera this season would almost seem to be an act of defiance. It’s an opera that calls for six tenors — when even one Met-worthy ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — It took 193 years for Rossini’s “Armida” to make it to the Metropolitan Opera but only nine months for its first revival. Soprano Renee Fleming and five of the six tenors who sang ...

It takes six tenors and one phenomenal soprano to perform Gioachino Rossini’s “Armida,” which helps explain why the Metropolitan Opera didn’t get around to mounting this glorious work for 193 years.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – Rinaldo ed il mago di Ascalona – Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain. In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give their ...

Last Saturday I returned from my early errands to find a mid-morning message on the phone from my uncle, who by happy coincidence also lives in Ithaca, New York a few miles from my house.: “Lump Lump, ...

Want to watch 'Rossini Armida' on your favorite screen? Here’s where you can watch it, including ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can choose your preferred ...

2 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera "We are staging this highly challenging opera expressly for Renée Fleming, who has the extraordinarily rare artistic ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Anthony Tommasini Renée Fleming has always made very particular and personal choices of operatic roles. Over the years, the managers ...