![]() ![]() Set in ancient Egypt and packed with magnificent choruses, complex ensembles, and elaborate ballets, Aida never loses sight of its three protagonists. This grandest of grand operas features an epic backdrop for what is in essence an intimate love story. Baritones George Gagnidze, Quinn Kelsey, and Luca Salsi portray Aida’s father, Amonasro, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn is the iron-fisted priest Ramfis. ![]() Mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova is Aida’s implacable Egyptian counterpart, Amneris, with tenors Brian Jagde and Marcelo Álvarez as the warrior Radamès, the object of both of their affections. Sopranos Angela Meade and Leah Crocetto share the title role, a captive Ethiopian princess torn between love and country. The mighty walls and towering monuments of ancient Egypt once again fill the Met stage, as Verdi’s great spectacle returns. Also, Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Horn, William Caballero, is soloist in Knussen’s Horn Concerto, along with Prokofiev’s first film score and homage to his Soviet roots in the Suite from Lieutenant Kijé. Hear the piece that Tchaikovsky poured his “whole soul into,” ultimately leading to his premature death only a week after the original premiere. La Bohème captures this ethos in its earliest days.įilled with ambiguity and intrigue, Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony was written with a distinct narrative behind the music according to the composer, yet no one alive knows what this story is. The story centers on self-conscious youth at odds with mainstream society-a Bohemian ambience that is clearly recognizable in any modern urban center. This is not a random setting, but rather reflects the issues and concerns of a particular time when, following the upheavals of revolution and war, French artists had lost their traditional support base of aristocracy and church. The libretto sets the action in Paris, circa 1830. At first glance, La Bohème is the definitive depiction of the joys and sorrows of love and loss on closer inspection, it reveals the deep emotional significance hidden in the trivial things-a bonnet, an old overcoat, a chance meeting with a neighbor-that make up our everyday lives. It has a marvelous ability to make a powerful first impression and to reveal unsuspected treasures after dozens of hearings. ![]() La Bohème, the passionate, timeless, and indelible story of love among young artists in Paris, can stake its claim as the world’s most popular opera. ![]()
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