As always with James Levine in the pit, a night at the opera is something special, and the Metropolitan Opera's second round of performances of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with a new cast led by the tenor Matthew Polenzani is no exception. When the Met returned Offenbach's last opera to the stage in January it had a top-notch cast singing under the able baton of the Canadian conductor Yves Abel. For the last six of the dozen scheduled performances this season, however, the Met has a new li...
As always with James Levine in the pit, a night at the opera is something special, and the Metropolitan Opera's second round of performances of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann with a new cast led by the tenor Matthew Polenzani is no exception. When the Met returned Offenbach's last opera to the stage in January it had a top-notch cast singing under the able baton of the Canadian conductor Yves Abel. For the last six of the dozen scheduled performances this season, however, the Met has a new li...
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