At the Met, a troubled new ‘Aida’ struggles to rediscover itself
The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere of Michael Mayer’s new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida,” and greeted ...
The New Yorker13d
The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics
Peter Gelb thinks “experimental” music leads to dwindling audiences, but performances around the country suggest otherwise.
New York Classical Review4d
Kutasi’s Amneris provides the highlights in Met’s uneven, archaeological “Aida”
For 36 years, Sonja Frisell’s mounting of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, with its monumental Pharaonic sets by Gianni ...