Word: metropolitanism
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Late in the century the flood of European immigrants for the first time brought the standard orchestral and instrumental repertoire to American ears. When Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler came to New York to head the Metropolitan Opera, he found a musical public "in contrast to 'our people' in Vienna...-- unsophisticated, hungry for novelty, and in the highest degree eager to learn...
...Sleeping Beauty is, after all, an ample work with a variety of roles and many interwoven elements. It need not be, and probably should not be, a star vehicle. A.B.T.'s version, which was introduced on tour and will open the company's season at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House next week, is a lively, intelligently conceived Beauty, performed with panache by mostly young dancers in superb form. They have mastered the steps, and the mime and the manners too. Four women have already danced Aurora, and there will be more. No one "owns" the part, and that...
Having raised up the Castel Sant'Angelo from the depths of the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca and put half of Paris onstage for La Boheme, Franco Zeffirelli must have felt some pressure to top himself with his new production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Curious first-nighters, proud holders of the toughest opera ticket of the season, entered the Met last week wondering how far the director's passion for outsize verisimilitude would extend. Would he cut off the Prince of Persia's head and stick it on a pole? Build the Great Wall of China? Or (gasp!) actually respect...
...Metropolitan Opera, Director Franco Zeffirelli stages a Turandot that is a monument to glorious -- or is it wretched? -- excess...
...passed, the bill will allocate $96.2 million to hospitals in the metropolitan Boston area for capital improvements, such as construction, renovation, and lease or purchase of property. This will create an additional 400 hospital beds, and 970 units of residential housing...