Word: mets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a future ever comes to pass, though, it will take a long time, and meanwhile Boston residents can enjoy the singers and productions the Met is sending them. The ones remaining...
Much of the Met's work at its New York base remains excellent, of course, and it continues to offer the widest variety of any North American opera house. But the moves towards television and a full-blooded tour hold the prospect of a radically different future for the nation's premier company --one in which talented casts and good productions are lavished on televised operas and those destined for the national tour, and the venerable New York opera house languishes, relying on its national income and the docility of its audiences instead of consistent production standards to keep...
...Carlo. April 27. The Met's new production of the five-act version Verdi prepared for the Paris Opera was one of the season's successes in New York...
...Bartered Bride, April 28. The Met's new production of Smetana's bouncy peasant drama boasts great singers but a botched translation and presentation. Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, and Jon Vickers (who cancelled his Tuesday Otello performance and may not show here) all are first-class artists, but some miscastings mar their contribution...
...Dialogues of the Carmelites, April 28. Poulenc's intellectual treatment of this story of a French convent martyred during the French Revolution has received a simple, stark, and thoroughly convincing presentation from the Met for three years now. Regine Crespin's age has taken the lusciousness out of her voice, but her insight and style are perfect for the role of the Old Prioress. Maria Ewing in the lead and Betsy Norden as Sister Constance both shine with youth and youthful voices. The Met in Boston reports that Carmelites isn't selling well, so it's probably your best chance...