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.
It's the original "Faustian bargain" -- old Dr. Faust sells his soul to the devil to be young again. But his decision has devastating consequences.
It's the original "Faustian bargain" -- old Dr. Faust sells his soul to the devil to be young again. But his decision has devastating consequences.
It's the original "Faustian bargain" -- old Dr. Faust sells his soul to the devil to be young again. But his decision has devastating consequences.