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2023-12-07 14:00:05
Don Carlo
Riccardo Chailly conducts Michele Pertusi, Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi, Elina Garanca and Jongmin Park in a live Sant’Ambrogio opening night broadcast from Milan
2022-10-19 16:51:00
Metropolitan Opera. Cherubini's Medea. October 18, 2022.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Balcony (Seat D110, $87.50).Story. Jason (Giasone) of Gold Fleece and Argo fame married Medea while in Colchis, they had two sons. After they moved to Corinth, Jason abandoned Medea while taking custody of the children, and was to be married to Glauce, daughter of King Creonte. As the wedding is celebrated, Medea appears with her maid ("confidante" in the Program Notes). She is asked by Creonte to leave, but is successful in pleading for an extra day so she can say farewell to her children, whom are brought to her. She kills the children, and the gifts she gave Glauce (a robe and a diadem) kill Glauce. She ends up going up in flames inside the temple holding the bodies of her two sons.Conductor - Carlo Rizzi; Glauce - Janai Brugger, Creonte - Michele Pertusi, Giasone - Matthew Polenzani, Medea - Sondra Radvanovsky, Neris - Olivia […]
2022-10-06 04:44:00
[…] being doubters just moments later. Polenzani shines in this heavier rep by maintaining much of the delicious pingy sound familiar from his Mozart days, though here he sounded a tad shouty and careless at times. Despite having his cake and eating it too at the outset of the plot, Polenzani’s Jason was almost as bedraggled and sulky as Medea, never letting the audience forget that he has been compromised and brutalized by tragedy as well. Michele Pertusi was an imposing Creon, perfectly sitting in that intersection of gravitas and vocal luxury that one expects in supporting authority figures at the Met. I complained last week about how the dad in Rossini's Otello was cast with a perfectly pleasant young artist which cost the dynamic between Desdemona and her father some credibility. Pertusi's imposing father neatly validated that observation a few days later. I know there are economics at work here for […]
2021-05-30 21:59:15
Le Comte Ory
Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From April 9, 2011.
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