About Last Night
Consider it a recession one-two punch: Famous for touring the five boroughs each summer, the Metropolitan Opera announced in April that it would be offering a series of recital concerts in lieu of their traditional—and highly anticipated—complete opera performances. And at last night’s opening concert, we were told that the Central Park SummerStage sound system is in need of a $250,000 upgrade. While the latter made for some cringeworthy moments in the first act (not to mention an amplification of every breath and cough from the headset mikes), it didn’t detract from the fact that this recital by Alek Shrader, Paulo Szot and Lisette Oropesa, pictured left to right above, may have been one of the Met’s best summer performances, period.
Read the rest of my review over at The Volume…
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