Beczala, Piotr (1966- )
Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees.
Opera, once divvied into local companies of singers mostly from the same country, blossomed with the advent of air travel into a fully international art form. French, German and Italian opera houses began to host artists from around the world. That’s become easy to take for granted. But in the wake of the Russian invasion […]
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Metropolitan Opera’s Concert Honors Ukraine
Vladyslav Buialskyi stood center stage at the Metropolitan Opera, his hand on his heart, and sang the national anthem of his country, Ukraine. That was on Feb. 28, when the house reopened after a month off from performing and the Russian invasion of Ukraine was just a few days old. The company’s chorus and orchestra […]
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Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’
While a surge of coronavirus cases, driven by the spread of the Omicron variant, has taken a profound toll on live performance in New York, the Metropolitan Opera has not yet canceled a performance. The company was so determined not to lose the premiere of its new production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” that at the final […]
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