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Christopher Job & Glenn Seven Allen To Appear On Bravo With Andy Cohen

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Christopher Job and Glenn Seven Allen are set to join Andy Cohen on Bravo on June 20, 2018. The New York City Opera announced via social media that the two singers will be showcased on “What Happens Live,” mixing drinks with Cohen for celebrities Tinsley Mortimer and Zoey Deutch. The talk show, which features celebrities is one of the most {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

From West To East & Back – Bass Christopher Job on His Historic Roots in LA, Singing At the Met Opera

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Christopher Job has seen it all. The bass-baritone has worked with many of the world’s greatest artists, all while building up a unique career singing smaller roles at the Metropolitan Opera while performing bigger ones with other companies. The California native recently had an opportunity to perform with the LA Philharmonic on its 100th-anniversary concert. It was a major homecoming {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: How ‘Mefistofele’ Scene Contextualizes Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ Trilogy As Faustian Myth

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment is Christopher Nolan’s “Batman {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Rigoletto (Cast B)

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(Credit: Jennifer Taylor / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is reviving “Rigoletto” for the second time this season. Following a run in the fall, the Met has enlisted a new star cast featuring a promising young tenor and one of the best baritones in the world. The result was a solid evening of music and drama. Hyperactive turntable But before {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: The Magic Flute

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(Photos: © Met Opera) This holiday season’s production of Metropolitan Opera’s “The Magic Flute” brings joy and grandiosity to Met Opera’s stage, and audience members of all ages. Julie Taymor’s beloved production is a nostalgic showcase of thoughtful set designs, costume designs, and dancing. This is the abridged, English adapted version of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” designed to run in under {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Tosca – Cast B

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(Credit: Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera) On Nov. 12, the Metropolitan Opera revived its production of Puccini’s “Tosca” to celebrate 100 years of the composer’s death. It was the second cast in the season following an acclaimed turn from Aleksandra Kurzak in September. For this evening, the Met put its hopes on what, on paper, looked like an all-star cast {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Grounded

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(Credit: MetropolItan Opera / Ken Howard) WARNING: This review features explicit language. It also uses some variation of the word “frustrating” a lot. To use a line from the cathartic and sublime climax in Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded” – “What the f*ck?” That quotidian expression perfectly encapsulates, in the context of the climax and at large, the frustration {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Central City Opera 2024 Review: La Fanciulla del West

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(Photo credit: Amanda Tipton) Central City Opera (CCO) resurges in 2023-24, the institution entering the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, installing Alison Moritz as Artistic Director and bouncing back from a turbulent 2023 marked by labor strife, now buoyed by the new leadership of CEO Scott Finlay. With a reinforced endowment, CCO’s ambitious 2024 summer festival season programmed Gilbert and {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Un Ballo in Maschera

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(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is in the midst of reviving “Un Ballo in Maschera” for the first time since 2015. Considered one of Verdi’s masterpieces, the work has some of the greatest arias and ensembles the composer ever wrote. For this revival, the Met brought a solid cast in an unfortunate production that should have {…}