Tom Service observes that The Met may be pulling in cinema crowds for opera, but the live experience is proving more difficult to sell at “the world's most glamorous opera house.”
There's an interesting little titbit from New York in the Met's announcement of its 2014/15 season of operas – whose highlights includes the return of conductor James Levine, who'll conduct the season-opening new production by Richard Eyre (replacing Michael Grandage) of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and give other shows, from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress to Wagner's Meistersinger. They've also announced that Levine will lead a new staging of Berg's Lulu from 2015/16; it's all testament to Levine's willpower in recovering from operations on his spine that mean he conducts from a motorised wheelchair. And it also shows how much the Met needs him. (Read more…)
There's an interesting little titbit from New York in the Met's announcement of its 2014/15 season of operas – whose highlights includes the return of conductor James Levine, who'll conduct the season-opening new production by Richard Eyre (replacing Michael Grandage) of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and give other shows, from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress to Wagner's Meistersinger. They've also announced that Levine will lead a new staging of Berg's Lulu from 2015/16; it's all testament to Levine's willpower in recovering from operations on his spine that mean he conducts from a motorised wheelchair. And it also shows how much the Met needs him. (Read more…)