All tagged Met Opera

PODCAST: "The Fabulous Invalid" - Episode 71: Camille A. Brown: Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Stuff

On this week’s show, Jamie and Rob bring you an interview with the extraordinary choreographer Camille A. Brown, who in the last year alone worked on the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Porgy and Bess”, The Public Theater’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf”, and “Toni Stone” for Roundabout, and earned a Tony Award nomination for her work on Manhattan Theatre Club’s “Choir Boy”.

FEATURE: Top 10 of 2019

By my count, I’ve attended 234 performances of theatre, dance, music, opera, and cabaret during 2019.  Out of a field that large, it’s hard to pick just ten, but nevertheless, here are my top ten (ok, eleven) favorite shows I saw in 2019.

Broadway-bound "To Kill a Mockingbird" faces lawsuit from Harper Lee's estate; Met Opera fires conductor James Levine; "Musicals Tonight!" and The Actors Company Theatre to shudder;  3 new musicals in development: one about Joy Mangano, "Tennessee Whiskey: The Musical", and "Dangerous"; Susan Stroma's "Little Dancer" gets new life in Seattle;  Tony-winner Sammy Williams dead at 69; Ben Platt and Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborate on song mashup for the March for Our Lives Foundation

NOTES: Bellini’s “Norma” at the Met Opera

The Metropolitan Opera launched its 2017-2018 season in September with a new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” directed by Sir David McVicar.  I caught a performance of this 1831 bel canto masterpiece on Friday night; two more chances remain, this evening at 7:30pm and Saturday, December 16th at 1pm.