- November 22, 1999
- My Old Flames
Samuel Ramey has made a career playing the red-faced, woolly-chested Devil, so the Met's high-camp "Mefistofele" feels like yesterday's news.
- November 22, 1999
- "A Child of Our Time"
"A Child of Our Time"
- November 15, 1999
- Presto Allegro
Houdini gets the Danish Modern treatment, and he escapes delightfully unscathed.
- November 15, 1999
- Vesselina Kasarova
A hot young mezzo-soprano may be staking out the wrong territory.
- November 8, 1999
- Celebrating the Music of Francis Poulenc
Poulenc underestimated his own irresistable piano concerto.
- November 8, 1999
- Go to Hell
A Danish company's take on the Orpheus legend is so much smoke and shimmers
- October 25, 1999
- Carbone Aria
"A View From the Bridge" becomes a finely crafted opera.
- October 25, 1999
- "Songs and Stories From Moby Dick"
Laurie Anderson's whimsical, evocative meditations on Melville make "Moby Dick" sing.
- October 18, 1999
- Send in the Clowns
The Met goes with the tried-and-true, opening its fall season with Plácido Domingo and the Zeffirelli "Pagliacci" and "Cavalleria Rusticana."
- October 18, 1999
- In Brief: The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra