Praised for her vocal beauty, seamless technique, and abundant musicality, Nadine Sierra is being hailed as one of the most promising, young talents in opera today. She was named the Richard Tucker Award Winner in 2017 and was awarded the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award by the Metropolitan Opera. Having made a string of successful debuts at the Met, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. On August 24th, 2018, her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, was released under the Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music labels
I'm excited about the Kevin Puts opera, "The Hours" along with the Wagner works! Interesting that Bartlett Sher is producing two of the operas. I generally think of him as a Musical Theatre/Theater producer/director. He has a much broader career than I knew about. Wonderful and informative video!
I miss him so much. His death was the end of an era. It's just not the same without him. I don't know what it is, and I can't put it into the words, but the opera world is really... different without him. Something big changed. For some reason, I find it baffling to imagine a time when he was alive and well, singing at the Met frequently. That time feels like a happy dream now.
Thanks for posting the season. Great season. I will attend most of them. I don’t think Eyvazov will be there due to his wife and comments he made of Angel Blue.
I am also 74. But beside that, if you have a subscription to Sirius or are a member of the Met, you can listen to live broadcasts during the season. Only some of the operas are live simulcast in theaters, plus reshown on the following Weds afternoon. My son gifted me membership to the Met, so I go online to their website and listen from my computer. I also have downloaded their app on my TV and can watch on Demand any opera they have available, at any time.
Let's dream so high and beautiful fans, we could defend freedom of expression and let such spectacular performances happen again, united to defend what makes us feel humans friends, good luck indeed
I’m excited for The Hours, and I CANNOT WAIT for Medea. Happy about Lohengrin, Norma, and Der Rosenkavalier. That production of Rosenkavalier is one of my all-time favorites. But what a BORING selection of operas besides these! The Met REALLY should worry less about money and concern themselves more with thinking outside the box. Lady Macbeth is a nice choice, but what about Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel, or Die Tote Stadt, or Respighi’s La Fiamma???
Sad to see an institution lose its mind. This one lost it many years ago. And, I am not an old codger. Most of the "singing" is wretched; and, now we have to endure singers who are there because of their color, "directors" and designers who want to do Broadway shows and fat people who are now so very ultra in this sick culture. It all reminds me of how one feels in their 20s-the more ridiculous the better; that is "deep" we said. What a joke they all have become.
What's the problem? Costello has been singing in Traviata /Rigoletto /Boheme for many years at Met. There is nothing new about it. I have more actual questions about Met's tenor roster. What Bliss, Anduaga, Bernheim, Volkov do at the Met? I'd prefer much better lyrical voices as Swensen for example instead of them. Why is Eyvazov still there? Many questions...
@@operafairy I shouldn’t think Costello still had a voice, it’s been so cruelly pushed. He was inaudible in his debut as Edgardo. And the ‘Vivi tu’ - painful. Such things rarely change.
@@ransomcoates546 totally agreed Costello is in the terrible vocal shape. But he is not the only one horrible tenor scheduled in the Met's season. Most of them are inaudible.
@@ransomcoates546 BTW have you heard how bad Castronovo and Polenzani sounded in recent performances for example? Or those tenors 'Met's newcomers' which I've mentioned already. Gosh, it is a disaster.
@@operafairy I have to agree about Polenzani. I remember hearing him on ‘Troyens’ in that sailor’s plaintiff aria and thinking it just his Fach. The only explanation for these slender voices doing big parts that makes sense to me is clandestine microphones. But this might be one of the best kind of secrets - the one everyone knows.
@@ESilva-qv1uv I never really enjoyed Gioconda because it's such a beautiful / difficult piece of work for the Soprano that only our GREAT SAIOA does it great Justice just like Chiener Tosca & Norma. Next year she be performing Turandot at Threatro Real. An opera that has been presented to her previously and she wisely declined waiting until her voice had matured etc. Technically she is fantastic as you will know my friend. Take care 🇲🇫🙏🍷 Arnaud Bourbon Amaral
Peter Mattei... Piotr Beczala... Matthew Polenzani... Why don't you suggest some "good singers" of your preference rather than complain about the ones they are using?
@@DiomedesDioscuro the only one decent singer in the next Met Season is Rucinsky. The rest roster of singers especially engaged in the leading roles are just horrible. So many wobbly old Mattei and Yoncheva, inaudible Gubanova, voiceless Beczala, awful Camarena, Polenzani, Castronovo, Costello, Bernheim, Jordi, and Gosh, Thomas and other tenors etc. I'm familiar which each one singer and almost each one can only dissapoint. It's a real torture for any opera lover and opera goer )
@@operafairy The standard is so awfully low that they didn't even consider necessary to find some decent seconds of each opera to illustrate the tiltes! Have you heard those Rigoletto and Don Giovanni selections? How can they sing that bad, for God sake?
@@DiomedesDioscuro I just can believe that this is the cast for the premiere of a new production of DG! Best of the best should sing in this premiere run, but Met offers the worst. It's insane. And Medea cast? Polenzani and Pertusi! They can't sing! It's a disaster!
Medea is very interesting perspective indeed, all new McVickar's productions are worth waiting for - Fedora even with such weak cast must be fabulous. Die zauberflote is very intriguing due to the very good cast. Enkhbat at last will make his anticipated Met debut. Also Anduaga somehow manages to get to the Met and Gosh, even Volkov. Obviously Eyvazov will be not the only one bad tenor at the Met. Bernheim after two years makes his delayed Met debut, though Met easily could wait for another two years. Very banal and boring season with mediocre singers. I hope MetOpera will recover after the lockdown's financial collapse and present really worthy season.
@@samueljaramillo4221 any arguments? I haven't got any objective comment from you yet. Or you're just a defender of bad singing? In this case the world opera will be engaged with bad singing forever, cause audience got what it deserves 🤣
@@operafairy Bad singing in your opinion. Not a fact. You’ve turned in the ultimate UA-cam troll in criticizing every singer on UA-cam. What are your credentials? Nobody wants to hear your critiques and nobody cares.
@@samueljaramillo4221 singing is not an abstract art, as any physical process it has it's own rules which is called proper technique. It's not something transcendental, if you can't understand such simple things you obviously have to stop commenting in the way you're used to to: 'not a fact'. In contrary it's a fact. If you think that a singer which got the right to appear on the opera stage is a good opera singer already it's your right but no one has to share your opinion without any argument. I can hear and can compare. May be it is time for you to learn the same. Or do you adore each one singer in the Met's next season just because they sing there?
@@operafairy Let me repeat, those are your opinions, and not facts. What are your credentials? You wouldn’t have the nerve to criticize any singer to their face. Trolls like you do it from your computer. That’s a fact. When’s the last time you set foot into an opera house? End of conversation. Get lost.
It's all connected. I will save Anna for another day. See many white people see all those white faces and so few black faces and that's what you are used to. There is a ton of black talent that doesn't get the opportunity. It's not for lack of talent.
Praised for her vocal beauty, seamless technique, and abundant musicality, Nadine Sierra is being hailed as one of the most promising, young talents in opera today. She was named the Richard Tucker Award Winner in 2017 and was awarded the 2018 Beverly Sills Artist Award by the Metropolitan Opera. Having made a string of successful debuts at the Met, Teatro alla Scala, Opéra national de Paris, and Staatsoper Berlin, she has become a fixture at many of the top houses around the world. On August 24th, 2018, her debut album, There’s a Place for Us, was released under the Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Music labels
I keep thinking I'm going to get tired eventually of Opera; but it just doesn't happen...
World-wide Opera is the mostpopular musice there is.
I'm excited about the Kevin Puts opera, "The Hours" along with the Wagner works! Interesting that Bartlett Sher is producing two of the operas. I generally think of him as a Musical Theatre/Theater producer/director. He has a much broader career than I knew about. Wonderful and informative video!
I’m so looking forward to this new production of MEDEA, it must take a lot of courage for anyone to sing this role after Maria callas
What a season!! Incredible. How are they going to get it all in?
Thank you for the video!
WOW!!! LOOKS LIKW A GREAT YEAR!
5:20 Beautiful !
Et Tosca avec Angela Gheorghiu ?🤩🧨🎹🎶🙏🏻
I miss Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
So deeply and greatly missed !
I miss him so much. His death was the end of an era. It's just not the same without him. I don't know what it is, and I can't put it into the words, but the opera world is really... different without him. Something big changed. For some reason, I find it baffling to imagine a time when he was alive and well, singing at the Met frequently. That time feels like a happy dream now.
@@operalover1010 Well said.
Thanks for posting the season. Great season. I will attend most of them. I don’t think Eyvazov will be there due to his wife and comments he made of Angel Blue.
I am 74 and hardly know any of these magnificent works or singers. I hope they will be broadcast in one way or another!
I am also 74. But beside that, if you have a subscription to Sirius or are a member of the Met, you can listen to live broadcasts during the season. Only some of the operas are live simulcast in theaters, plus reshown on the following Weds afternoon. My son gifted me membership to the Met, so I go online to their website and listen from my computer. I also have downloaded their app on my TV and can watch on Demand any opera they have available, at any time.
Let's dream so high and beautiful fans, we could defend freedom of expression and let such spectacular performances happen again, united to defend what makes us feel humans friends, good luck indeed
If the views count is inordinately high, that would be me. BTW, I was in tears by the time they got to O Don Fatale.
Why aren't they doing LES TROYENS or LES HUGUENOTS this year? I'm just wanting to see those operas!
I’m excited for The Hours, and I CANNOT WAIT for Medea. Happy about Lohengrin, Norma, and Der Rosenkavalier. That production of Rosenkavalier is one of my all-time favorites.
But what a BORING selection of operas besides these! The Met REALLY should worry less about money and concern themselves more with thinking outside the box. Lady Macbeth is a nice choice, but what about Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel, or Die Tote Stadt, or Respighi’s La Fiamma???
Leonard as Octavian would be worth a trip! So would Konieczny as Hollaender.
Yes, but you have to sit through that dreadful Carsen production for 4 hours...
Sad to see an institution lose its mind. This one lost it many years ago. And, I am not an old codger. Most of the "singing" is wretched; and, now we have to endure singers who are there because of their color, "directors" and designers who want to do Broadway shows and fat people who are now so very ultra in this sick culture. It all reminds me of how one feels in their 20s-the more ridiculous the better; that is "deep" we said. What a joke they all have become.
Interesting they are pushing Stephen Costello into Richard Tucker’s repertoire. Hmm…
What's the problem? Costello has been singing in Traviata /Rigoletto /Boheme for many years at Met. There is nothing new about it. I have more actual questions about Met's tenor roster. What Bliss, Anduaga, Bernheim, Volkov do at the Met? I'd prefer much better lyrical voices as Swensen for example instead of them. Why is Eyvazov still there? Many questions...
@@operafairy I shouldn’t think Costello still had a voice, it’s been so cruelly pushed. He was inaudible in his debut as Edgardo. And the ‘Vivi tu’ - painful. Such things rarely change.
@@ransomcoates546 totally agreed Costello is in the terrible vocal shape. But he is not the only one horrible tenor scheduled in the Met's season. Most of them are inaudible.
@@ransomcoates546 BTW have you heard how bad Castronovo and Polenzani sounded in recent performances for example? Or those tenors 'Met's newcomers' which I've mentioned already. Gosh, it is a disaster.
@@operafairy I have to agree about Polenzani. I remember hearing him on ‘Troyens’ in that sailor’s plaintiff aria and thinking it just his Fach. The only explanation for these slender voices doing big parts that makes sense to me is clandestine microphones. But this might be one of the best kind of secrets - the one everyone knows.
All these great operas & no Saioa Hernandez. That's called sadness
It would be great to have La Gioconda with her.
@@ESilva-qv1uv At this point she could sing any great dramatic Opera my friend. Arnuald Bourbon Amaral ,🇲🇫🌏💙🙏🍷
@@arnoldamaral3814 I do agree with you but, for me, she is the best Gioconda on stage nowadays, and that is an opera we dont see much worldwide.
@@ESilva-qv1uv I never really enjoyed Gioconda because it's such a beautiful / difficult piece of work for the Soprano that only our GREAT SAIOA does it great Justice just like Chiener Tosca & Norma. Next year she be performing Turandot at Threatro Real. An opera that has been presented to her previously and she wisely declined waiting until her voice had matured etc. Technically she is fantastic as you will know my friend. Take care 🇲🇫🙏🍷 Arnaud Bourbon Amaral
Why oh why do they have to bring back that god-awful Carsen production of Rosenkavalier?
Couldn't they find just ONE good singer? Is that ask for too much?
Peter Mattei... Piotr Beczala... Matthew Polenzani...
Why don't you suggest some "good singers" of your preference rather than complain about the ones they are using?
@@davebillnitzer5824 Because I can't think about any good singer nowadays. Can you?
@@DiomedesDioscuro the only one decent singer in the next Met Season is Rucinsky. The rest roster of singers especially engaged in the leading roles are just horrible. So many wobbly old Mattei and Yoncheva, inaudible Gubanova, voiceless Beczala, awful Camarena, Polenzani, Castronovo, Costello, Bernheim, Jordi, and Gosh, Thomas and other tenors etc. I'm familiar which each one singer and almost each one can only dissapoint. It's a real torture for any opera lover and opera goer )
@@operafairy The standard is so awfully low that they didn't even consider necessary to find some decent seconds of each opera to illustrate the tiltes! Have you heard those Rigoletto and Don Giovanni selections? How can they sing that bad, for God sake?
@@DiomedesDioscuro I just can believe that this is the cast for the premiere of a new production of DG! Best of the best should sing in this premiere run, but Met offers the worst. It's insane. And Medea cast? Polenzani and Pertusi! They can't sing! It's a disaster!
The season looks great! And extra thanks for being persistent in boycotting Anna Netrebko, unlike the shamefully spineless Europe...
Hey, where is.Ocosia Cortez? Liked her when she bashed Trump. Hope you have to ask her for financial support. Lol. By the way, what happened to Levin?
Medea is very interesting perspective indeed, all new McVickar's productions are worth waiting for - Fedora even with such weak cast must be fabulous. Die zauberflote is very intriguing due to the very good cast. Enkhbat at last will make his anticipated Met debut. Also Anduaga somehow manages to get to the Met and Gosh, even Volkov. Obviously Eyvazov will be not the only one bad tenor at the Met. Bernheim after two years makes his delayed Met debut, though Met easily could wait for another two years. Very banal and boring season with mediocre singers. I hope MetOpera will recover after the lockdown's financial collapse and present really worthy season.
Very banal and boring? Your comments are banal,weak,mediocre, and boring.
@@samueljaramillo4221 any arguments? I haven't got any objective comment from you yet. Or you're just a defender of bad singing? In this case the world opera will be engaged with bad singing forever, cause audience got what it deserves 🤣
@@operafairy
Bad singing in your opinion. Not a fact. You’ve turned in the ultimate UA-cam troll in criticizing every singer on UA-cam. What are your credentials? Nobody wants to hear your critiques and nobody cares.
@@samueljaramillo4221 singing is not an abstract art, as any physical process it has it's own rules which is called proper technique. It's not something transcendental, if you can't understand such simple things you obviously have to stop commenting in the way you're used to to: 'not a fact'. In contrary it's a fact. If you think that a singer which got the right to appear on the opera stage is a good opera singer already it's your right but no one has to share your opinion without any argument. I can hear and can compare. May be it is time for you to learn the same. Or do you adore each one singer in the Met's next season just because they sing there?
@@operafairy
Let me repeat, those are your opinions, and not facts. What are your credentials? You wouldn’t have the nerve to criticize any singer to their face. Trolls like you do it from your computer. That’s a fact. When’s the last time you set foot into an opera house? End of conversation. Get lost.
It's interesting the Met has a very small pool of black performers it used and has a huge list of white performers
Let's chose singers for their skin colours 🙄
@@chivalrouslee no but if they can make Anna nektrebko a star and fakes her voice they can have more diversity
@@corneliusbates460 totally unconnected matters.
Wow, if the Met ever needs a way to get even worse singing standards, that could be a good one. 🤦🏻♂️
It's all connected. I will save Anna for another day. See many white people see all those white faces and so few black faces and that's what you are used to. There is a ton of black talent that doesn't get the opportunity. It's not for lack of talent.
boring casting.
I disagree !!!
I disagree!
@@samueljaramillo4221 I very much agree.
It's not boring, it's just bad.
@@DiomedesDioscuro exactly