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The opera was commissioned by New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Greg Pierce, who wrote the libretto for the 2016 opera Fellow Travelers, as well as the lyrics of two musicals with John Kander, The Landing (2013) and Kid Victory (2015), was hired to write the libretto. In an interview with NPR, Pierce stated: "The Met ...
The Met reopened in time for the 2021–2022 season, beginning with a concert of Verdi's Requiem to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11. [124] On October 24, 2022, the Met, in conjunction with the NY Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall dropped their masking requirements, [125] the last COVID-related restriction that was still in place.
The opera made its world premiere on June 15, 2019, at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. [8] [9] The conductor of the premiere performance was William Long. Performers included Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines. [10] The Metropolitan Opera's 2021–2022 season opened with Fire Shut Up in My Bones on September 27, 2021. It was the first opera by ...
When Anthony Davis' first opera, “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” was staged at New York City Opera in 1986 it was such a hit he says “audiences were around the block waiting to get in ...
The Met sold 66% of tickets during the season that ended Saturday, up from 61% during the 2021-22 season. Without the shutdown, the Met projected 68% attendance. Met Opera box office has slight ...
During the 2022–23 season he conducted his 500th performance at the Met as Boroff in Fedora, concluding the season singing Lodovico in Act III of Verdi’s Otello with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X” is the Metropolitan Opera’s latest effort to bring African-American stories to the […] The post A revolutionary opera brings Malcolm X to the Met ...
After “Grounded,” the Met has three works by women scheduled in 2026: Saariaho’s “Innocence” (opening April 6), Gabriela Lena Frank’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” (May 14) and Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” (Oct. 23). “If we are claiming that opera needs to appeal to everyone and needs to be related and ...