sábado, 1 de agosto de 2020

PROFIT. NEWS FROMTHE MET ANDTHE NEW YORK TIMES RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH RENÉE FLEMING AHEAD OF HER CONCERT.




Nightly Opera Streams

AUGUST 24–30
The next week of free Nightly Opera Streams is dedicated to the great Giuseppe Verdi, featuring seven of his most powerful masterpieces—from the ever-popular RigolettoIl Trovatore, and La Traviata to the grand drama Don Carlo and the hilarious Falstaff. To enhance your viewing experience, explore our curated collection of related content, including articles, videos, podcasts, and more. 
Monday, August 24
Verdi’s Rigoletto
Tuesday, August 25
Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Wednesday, August 26
Verdi’s Luisa Miller
Thursday, August 27
Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera
Friday, August 28
Verdi’s La Traviata
Saturday, August 29
Verdi’s Don Carlo
Sunday, August 30
Verdi’s Falstaff
Each stream becomes available at 7:30PM ET and remains accessible for on-demand viewing until 6:30PM ET the following day, with the exception of the August 28 stream of La Traviata, which will be available until August 29 at 12PM ET. The August 29 stream of Don Carlo will begin at the normally scheduled 7:30PM ET.
The Metropolitan Opera
MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT - ROBERTO ALAGNA & ALEKSANDRA KURZAK

LIVE: Sunday, August 16, at 1:30PM EDT

The dynamic husband-and-wife duo of tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak give a concert of popular arias and duets, accompanied by a string quintet, from an outdoor terrace in Èze, France, with a spectacular view of the Mediterranean. From the rhapsodic love duet from Madama Butterfly to the hilarious hijinks of L’Elisir d’Amore to surprising selections such as the moving Mexican song “Cielito lindo,” the program promises to be full of joy and favorite melodies—all delivered “with video as good as a movie theater ... [and] sound probably better” (Washington Post). 
Tickets for this live concert are $20, and the performance will remain available for on-demand viewing for 12 days. If you are unable to tune in live, you may purchase a ticket at any point during the 12-day window to access the concert on demand.


By Maureen Dowd
McLEAN, Va. — Tim Jessell, a lanky divorced Washington corporate attorney and father of three, had given up on love in 2008 when he was set up on a blind date with a beautiful blond New Yorker who had also given up on love.

They clicked, and many years later began that old sitcom debate about splitting drawers and closets. If she sold her Upper West Side apartment and moved to D.C., would he be able to make enough space in his townhouse?

“She told me she was bringing her piano,” Mr. Jessell said, with a smile. “That was serious.” And, of course, the designer gowns were going to overrun the closets.

Mr. Jessell, a sports fan and Bruce Springsteen fanatic who knew nothing about opera before that first date, ended up in a new place, an airy glass and stone contemporary house beside a creek in McLean, Va., with a hammock and the most famous American soprano since Beverly Sills.

Curled on a white couch in their living room, wearing a silky cream blouse, black pinstriped pants and turquoise jewelry, Renée Fleming said that she was glad Mr. Jessell had never heard of her.

“If they’re not a fan, it gives you a chance to kind of develop something based on who you are,” she said, noting wryly that their love bloomed even though the first performance of hers Mr. Jessell saw was “Lucrezia Borgia.”
“That’s an opera in which I fall in love with my own son and then kill all his friends and him by mistake,” she said. “He embraced the whole thing.”

Moreover, Mr. Jessell was consistently willing to get on a plane to wherever she was. Ms. Fleming had seen plenty of glimmers with men evaporate over her grueling travel schedule. “Someone would introduce me to someone and we’d go out and I’d say ‘Oh, I had so much fun tonight, I’ll be back in three weeks,’” she said. “I could sort of see their eyes glaze over.”


After her divorce from the actor Rick Ross, when she was raising their two daughters, “I was single for a long time,” Ms. Fleming said. “And there was a period in which I just felt really angry about the fact that it’s hard for accomplished, gifted women to be with men of similar talents.”



‘The All-American Diva’
Now Ms. Fleming, her Steinway and her gowns are happily ensconced in their new house, where she is rehearsing a solo program that includes Handel, “Over the Rainbow” and much more for a Metropolitan Opera concert at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, livestreaming Saturday at 1 p.m. Her audience, the smallest she has ever performed for, will be four cameras, two of them robotic.

The pay-per-view event is designed to help the Met survive during a pandemic that is strangling her profession. The virus can be easily spread by singing and through crowds, which makes opera — which was already struggling — exceedingly vulnerable.

The shimmery, creamy voice of the “undiva,” as she is known, is ingrained in America’s cultural memory, at both sad and happy moments. She sang “Amazing Grace” at a memorial service at ground zero after 9/11 and “Danny Boy” at John McCain’s funeral at the Washington National Cathedral. She sang in Sindarin, the Elvish language for “The Lord of the Rings” soundtrack. She sang a Top 10 list on David Letterman’s show, Verdi with the Muppets, and a goose-bumps-inducing rendition of the national anthem at the 2014 Super Bowl.............

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