Classical Music in NYC This Week
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/arts/music/classical-music-in-nyc-this-week.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Fclassical-music-reviews
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, 1962–2017
This week's performances of Verdi's Requiem are dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
GIUSEPPE VERDI OPENS TONIGHT AT 8 PM Requiem
For the first time since 2008, James Levine conducts a special series of concerts of Verdi’s great Mass, featuring a quartet of extraordinary soloists alongside the incomparable Met Orchestra and Chorus.
The performances are dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Requiem
http://www.metopera.org/Season/2017-18-Season/requiem-verdi-tickets/
The performances of Verdi’s Requiem are dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
For the first time since 2008, James Levine conducts a special series of concerts of Verdi’s great Mass, written in memory of Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni. The company has assembled a quartet of extraordinary soloists to join the incomparable Met Orchestra and Chorus: Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko, and Ferruccio Furlanetto.
FRI Nov 24 2017 8:00 Metropolitan Opera: Requiem
MON Nov 27 2017 7:30 Metropolitan Opera: Requiem
WED Nov 29 2017 7:30 Metropolitan Opera: Requiem
SAT Dec 02 2017 1:00 Metropolitan Opera: Requiem
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
VERDI’S ‘REQUIEM’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Nov. 24-Dec. 2, 8 p.m.). Once upon a time, there was supposed to be a Calixto Bieito “La Forza del Destino” making a debut this season, but it was canceled earlier this year on budgetary grounds. In its place, that most operatic of requiems, Verdi’s, conducted by James Levine. The soloists are strong, with Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Ferruccio Furlanetto joining the supreme house chorus.
‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Nov. 25-Dec. 9, 2 p.m.). Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s tale of tribulation has already appeared once this season, in its full form and in German, but now returns in what the Met likes to call its family-friendly guise: abridged, and in English. The cast is similar, with Charles Castronovo as Tamino and Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, but Nathan Gunn is now Papageno, and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller may be an improvement on the earlier Paminas. Evan Rogister conducts.