The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: The Metropolitan Opera
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The Met has secured a new labor agreement with IATSE Local One, the union representing the company’s stagehands. Final negotiations are to take place with eight smaller unions representing behind-the-scenes Met personnel. All are expected to reach agreements, preventing a potential labor crisis at the nation’s largest performing arts organization. Press Release | Official Web…
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According to a press release from this morning, the Met has reached agreements with two of its largest unions, AGMA and Local 802. The contract deadline has been extended through midnight on Tuesday, August 19 to allow Local One and the other remaining unions with unsettled contracts more time to secure new deals with the…
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According to a press release from today the Met has canceled its Live in HD transmission of The Death of Klinghoffer scheduled for this fall. The Met's General Manager, Peter Gelb says "I'm convinced that the opera is not anti-Semitic but I've also become convinced that there is genuine concern in the international Jewish community…
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The 2014 winners of the Metropolitan Opera (pictured left) National Council Auditions are sopranos Julie Adams and Amanda Woodbury; tenor Yi Li; bass-baritone Ao Li; and bass Patrick Guetti. Four of these five are associated with the Merola Opera Program. Adams and Woodbury are Merolini this year. Yi Li was in Merola in 2012 and…
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September 22- December 20 2014: Le Nozze di Figaro September 23 2014- January 24 2015 : La Bohème September 24- October 18 2014: Macbeth September 30 2014- March 7 2015: Carmen October 6- November 8 2014: Die Zauberflöte October 20- November 15 2014: The Death of Klinghoffer October 30 2014- April 20 2015: Aida November…
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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the addition of three new composers to its Met/LCT New Works Program: Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little, and Joshua Schmidt. Two new premieres were also announced, namely Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel, to be seen in the 2017-18 season and Osvaldo Golijov's adaptation of the Euripides play Iphigenia in Aulis,…
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* Notes * William Kentridge's 2010 production of The Nose (pictured left, photograph by Ken Howard) at the Metropolitan Opera was revived on Saturday afternoon. The matinée performance was an utter delight. The combination of music, singing, animation, set, and choreography all came together wonderfully. Performed without an intermission, the intensity of the proceedings is impressive.…
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* Notes *David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare (Act III pictured left, photograph by Marty Sohl) had a fourth performance at the Metropolitan Opera last night. Having attended no less than six performances of the Met’s previous production, it was nice to see that McVicar’s offering is much less staid. The shifts in costumes must…
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According to a press release, Natalie Dessay (pictured left, photograph by Marty Sohl) was ill for the second performance of the Met’s Giulio Cesare. Danielle de Niese sang the role of Cleopatra instead. Production Web Site for Giulio Cesare | Casting Changes
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The 2013 winners of the Metropolitan Opera (pictured left, photograph by Jonathan Tichler/Metropolitan Opera) National Council Auditions are sopranos Sydney Mancasola and Rebecca Pedersen; tenor Michael Brandenburg; bass-baritones Brandon Cedel, Musa Ngqungwana, and Thomas Richards. Official Site
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