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Review: ‘Così’ at the Met, as Mild as a Coney Island Morning

I can’t remember ever hearing this ensemble sound so light, almost insubstantial — and I mean that as a compliment. This music, which for all its sublimity can sometimes drag, didn’t rush — at least not after a bracingly brisk overture — but never lagged, the textures as airy as a June morning on Coney Island.

Les mer
16 februar 2020www.nytimes.comZachary Woolfe

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Così fan tutte, Mozart
D: Phelim McDermott
C: Harry Bicket
Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: Così Fan Tutte

Bliss deftly wielded his silky tenor through Ferrando’s more touching scenes; faced with Fiordiligi’s initial refusal and Dorabella’s unfaithfulness, his cavatina “Tradito, schernito,” rang with a fine, crestfallen timbre. This seeming defeat tinged his later duet with Car, “Fra gli amplessi,” with a desperate passion that was hard to resist, as heard from the beckoning caress he placed on the phrase “In me alone you’ll find husband, lover, and more if you wish.”

Les mer
18 februar 2020operawire.comLogan Martell