Category: The Metropolitan Opera
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Metropolitan Opera Simulcast: Lucia di Lammermoor
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/arts/music/26lucia.html The Metropolitan Opera presented the final performance of a run of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor for its March 19 HD simulcast. Director Mary Zimmerman incorporated a ghostly apparition during Lucia’s aria, “Regnava nel silenzio” – not outlined in the score – but as a reference to the Walter Scott novel. It was haunting and effective to see as Lucia tells…
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Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions – Southeast Regional Finals
I attended the Southeast Regional Finals of the Met Auditions in Atlanta, GA today. Fifteen singers ranging in age from 20-29 competed, having prepared five arias that had been practiced and polished. Today’s winner will compete in the NYC semi-finals on March 6, 2011. In 1954 the Metropolitan Opera founded its Council auditions in order to…
Stephanie Adrian 