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Week of Events
Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Strauss’s Salome
Scott Eyerly’s Virtual Met Opera Lecture: Strauss’s Salome
Scott Eyerly will offer a free opera talk via Zoom the Thursday prior to the Metropolitan Opera’s broadcast the following weekend.
Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Salome
Met Opera Live in HD: Strauss’s Salome
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide.
Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
Close Encounters With Music: A Tale of Two Salons – Winnaretta Singer and Marcel Proust
The daughter of sewing machine industrialist Isaac Merritt Singer, Winnaretta Singer-Polignac was a force of nature, hosting everyone from Leon Bakst to Jean Cocteau and Jean Giraudoux to Prokofiev, Madame Jean Lanvin, Siegfried Wagner, Arthur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Edith Wharton in her Paris salon.