Met Opera Live in HD: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MAJake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.
Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.
The program touches on some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of art and culminates with the emotionally compelling and ineffably beautiful Brahms Piano Trio Op. 8.
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last.
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera focuses on an opera diva, Florencia Grimaldi, who returns to her native Brazil to perform and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle.
Ancient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.
Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story of deadly passion with a staging that moves the action to the present day, amid a band of human traffickers.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen, following a string of recent Met triumphs, in her role debut as the noble Leonora.
In his dance suites, J. S. Bach ventures into Spanish sarabandes, French bourrées and British gigues.
Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.
The Romans appropriated the entirety of classical Greek culture, and the Renaissance rediscovered and revitalized it.
Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the sophisticated French courtesan Magda, opposite tenor Jonathan Tetelman in his company debut as Ruggero, an idealistic young man who offers her an alternative to her life of excess.
In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s tragedy.
The imperial “City of Song” has played an essential role as a leading European cultural center, hosting major personalities in the development of music, as well as literature, painting, psychiatry and intellectual thought, from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Dvořák’s sublime Piano Quintet in A Major occupies a lofty place in the chamber music canon, at the same elevation as Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34.