{"id":77830,"date":"2022-01-18T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=77830"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:17:33","slug":"opera-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=77830","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Opera House \u5927\u90fd\u4f1a\u6b4c\u5267\u9662"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n30 Lincoln Center Plaza
\nNew York, NY 10023<\/p>\n

The Met Opera House<\/a> in New York is in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts<\/a>\u00a0square. It shares the plaza and water fountain with Avery Fisher Hall<\/a><\/del> now David Geffen Hall (NYPhil) and David ballet on the other side.<\/p>\n

Operas @ the Met Opera House<\/a>, 2022<\/p>\n

Winter time seems the good time to go to indoor events, such as opera and ballet<\/a>. I got tickets this January and March to a series of operas at the Met.<\/p>\n

The list:<\/p>\n

1. La Boheme<\/a><\/em>, 1896 by Puccini (1858<\/a>-1924)
\n2. Tosca<\/a><\/em>, 1900 by Puccini
\n3. The Marriage of Figaro<\/a><\/em>, 1786 by Mozart<\/a>
\n4. Rigoletto<\/a><\/em>, 1851 by Verdi (1813-1901)
\n\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>5. Don Carlos<\/a><\/em>, 1867\u00a0by Verdi\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>
\n6. Madama Butterly<\/a><\/em>, 1904\u00a0by Puccini
\n7. Eugene Onegin<\/a><\/em>, 1879 by Tchaikovsky\u00a0(1840-93)<\/p>\n

Although I enjoyed them all but Mozart is still my fave. Madama Butterly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Eugene Onegin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0are all good too. Don Carlos<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is clearly the it boy<\/em>. His giant posters (different versions) adorn the right side of the Met’s building whenever I went this season.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t seen Denyce Graves (1963<\/a>-) for a long while … WHERE is she and her Carmen<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n

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\nIn March, I received next season 2022\/3’s program in the mail. It’s a little bewildering that they still send out printed program, when our tickets could be used in smart phone app<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This sprint, February 24, to be exact, Russia invaded Ukraine<\/a>. The classical world reacts to it by firing<\/a>\u00a0Russian conductor Valery Gergiev<\/a> (1953<\/a>-) and the Met cancelled Russian Anna Netrebko (1971<\/a>-) who was discovered and promoted by Gergiev, with the Ukrainian<\/a>\u00a0soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska<\/a>. I see Met’s explanation<\/a>\u00a0during the Don Carlos<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on March 10th (my previous opera Rigoletto<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was on January 25th).<\/p>\n

The leading ladies in\u00a0Madama Butterly<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Butterfly and Suzuki are played by\u00a0Eleonora Buratto (1982<\/a>-) and Elizabeth DeShong respectively. Both are Caucasians. Wondering, why Met doesn’t use Asian sopranos for the parts, and why no complains heard from the Asian community – there was a controversy during David H Hwang’s M. Buttery<\/em> in 1988, over casting.<\/p>\n

The Playbill for Eugene Onegin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has a paragraph on its history at the Met. It premiered in 1920 in Italian, and in 1977, sung in Russian and was conducted by James Levine<\/a> (1943<\/a>-2021). Levine had been with the Met for four decades (1976-2016) and was disgraced over his sexual misconduct. Comparing to pulling down General Robert E. Lee’s statues, Levine enjoys far better treatment. History should be remembered as truthfully as we could record it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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