Tag: Metropolitan Opera

  • Nation & World

    Singer sensation

    Legendary tenor and opera director Plácido Domingo was masterful in a charming conversation called “Giving Voice” at Sanders Theatre.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Plácido Domingo shares his secrets

    Legendary tenor and opera director Plácido Domingo will be celebrated in a conversation called “Giving Voice” on April 14 at Sanders Theatre.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The mystery of Mahler

    American audiences quickly embraced the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler when he moved to the United States, and to a surprising degree, lecturer Federico Cortese told an Ed Portal audience.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The wrong way forward

    In May, Matt Aucoin’s “Crossing” will premiere with the American Repertory Theater as part of the theater’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A year set to music

    Matt Aucoin has been busy since graduating from Harvard last year. The young conductor and composer splits his time among Europe, New York, and Chicago, and is working on a Civil War-themed opera for the American Repertory Theater.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A maestro and a wordsmith

    Senior Matt Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music, with a degree in English, a passion for writing and composing, and a future destined for The New Yorker, or the conductor’s chair, or both.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Making ‘Nixon in China’

    Three major players in contemporary music reconvened at Harvard, their alma mater, to discuss their groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China,” based on Nixon’s seminal visit in 1972.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Down-to-earth diva

    Opera luminary Renée Fleming offered her guidance and singing expertise to a group of Harvard students at Harvard’s Paine Hall as part of the Office for the Arts’ annual Learning From Performers series.

    6 minutes