The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2021-22 season and season tickets are on sale. Whether the season can take place or not depends entirely on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic, but for now, it is on. Tickets at metopera.org French Canadian music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the company again. 🇨🇦 The Met is working on racial and gender equity. Classical … [Read more...] about The Metropolitan Opera Premieres a New “Lucia de Lammermoor” with Nadine Sierra & Javier Camarena
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Javier Camarena
Javier Camarena is a Mexican tenor who keeps getting encores at the Met. (Encores are not allowed.) Javier Camarena's Rapid Rise https://youtu.be/aNASLUVNobY Camarena in the final dress rehearsal of "Si, ritrovarla io giuro" from La Cenerentola, the aria that earned his first Met encoreJavier Camarena was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico on March 26, 1976. He made … [Read more...] about Javier Camarena
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Italian NYC
Today, Italian NYC is mostly in Throgs Neck & Morris Park The Bronx; Staten Island; and Harlem, and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Italians are one of the communities that defines New York City and the United States. The big wave of immigration came between the 1850s and 1930s. Many Southern Italians came between 1880 and 1920. Italy made major contributions to European … [Read more...] about Italian NYC
“Anjou: The Musical Horror Tale” World Premiere Benefits Broadway Cares
Anjou: The Musical Horror Tale has its world premiere of musical highlights on Playbill.com/anjou on Friday, January 29, 2021 at 8pm ET. It's free, but donations benefit Broadway Cares, the largest financial supporter of The Actors Fund. New Yorkers know Broadway performers need help right now during the pandemic shutdown. Let's open our wallets. Support the arts! Anjou: … [Read more...] about “Anjou: The Musical Horror Tale” World Premiere Benefits Broadway Cares
Semiramide
Semiramide https://youtu.be/uRGW4_7wP7E Semiramide is Gioachino Rossini's tragic two-act Italian opera based on French philosopher Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis (1748). The story is based on the legend of Semiramis, a queen of the ancient empire of Assyria (Mesopotamia and Egypt). All sorts of buildings across the Middle East and Armenia are attributed to her, including … [Read more...] about Semiramide