Written over 400 years ago, Cherubini's MEDEA finally made it to the Met on the season's opening night, in a new production by David McVicar. Was it worth the wait? If you take it for Sondra ...
Sondra Radvanovsky portrays the mythic sorceress in this Met premiere of Cherubini’s rarely performed masterpiece. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers. For ...
Overlooked for many decades, Luigi Cherubini's Medea -first presented in Paris in 1797- was brought back into the limelight when Maria Callas first performed the title role in 1953 at the Maggio ...
I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain. But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient ...
Hell hath no fury like a sorceress scorned. This centuries-old tale burns with unrelenting emotional fire, and in Cherubini’s hands, it demands to be retold. Audiences witness the tragedy of Medea, a ...
Watch as Soprano Janai Brugger gives us a taste of Cherubini’s heady score for MADEA, exquisitely brought to life in this excerpt from her Act I aria “O Amore, vieni a me!" When Luigi Cherubini's ...
Recent interest in Medea operas began somewhat before Callas-centenary fever broke out when the Metropolitan Opera opened last season with Sondra Radvanovsky starring in its first-ever mounting of ...
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