Whitefish Theatre Co., in collaboration with the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, presents “I Puritani” as the fifth opera in the 2025-2026 live streaming season of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD.
Edwards’s production amps up both the historical context and adds in some psychoanalytic touches to its general peril; maps of Plymouth under siege are projected, and chyrons appear to deliver ...
Be careful what you wish for. When I bemoaned the tired design tropes in a now-notorious Guillaume Tell — "several dozen wooden chairs… bare neon strip lights… it's all pretty ugly" — I hoped never to ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars. By Joshua ...
At a time when the whole of Europe was obsessed by Romanticism, what nation did not dream of Italy? Goethe's Mignon sings of the Sicilian countryside where an orange tree in full bloom can be seen ...
A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The footage was filmed during an early stage rehearsal for the Metropolitan ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Lisette Oropesa impresses Peter Gelb as more than a singer. “She reminds me a little bit of Beverly Sills,” the Metropolitan Opera general manager said. “She seems to have that kind of ...
Charles Edwards painted his interpretations of canvases by Anthony van Dyck for the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “I Puritani.” Then he visited the Met Museum to see the original. By James Barron ...