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Der deutsche Dirigent Tilman Michael (49) wechselt als Chorleiter von der Oper Frankfurt zur Met in New York. Michael werde ab der kommenden Spielzeit die Leitung des Chors der renommierten New Yorker Metropolitan-Oper übernehmen, wie die Institution in Manhattan mitteilte. «Tilman Michael ist ein langjähriger Kollege und Freund, dessen Arbeit ich zutiefst respektiere und den ich in der Met-Familie von ganzem Herzen willkommen heiße», sagte Musikdirektor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Er fühle sich geehrt und freue sich darauf, zu der Erstellung der «herausragenden Musik an diesem sehr besonderen Opern...
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New York (AFP) - A mesmerizing musical biography of civil rights leader Malcolm X that infuses history with Afrofuturism will open at New York's Metropolitan Opera on Friday. It's a long time coming: "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X" first premiered in the mid-1980s to favorable reviews, but went unrevived for decades, with just a few stagings over nearly 40 years. Its Met debut features a revised, jazz-infused score from composer Anthony Davis, Thulani Davis's libretto and direction from the Tony-nominated director Robert O'Hara, who worked on the acclaimed "Slave Play." The opera traces t...
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New York (AFP) - The director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday the famed institution would return more pieces of art to countries that were victims of looting as it joins in efforts to fight international antiquities trafficking. "You will see and hear from the Met museum not only about more outcome from our research but actually more restitutions, more returns and more collaborations with those countries," Max Hollein told foreign journalists. "We don't want to have any object in our collections that came illegally," said the Austrian art historian, who has headed the Me...
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New York (AFP) - New York's Metropolitan Opera on Monday announced it had commissioned a new work on Russia's abduction and deportation of Ukrainian children. The new opera will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with American playwright George Brant penning the libretto. It marks the latest action the prestigious company has taken in support of war-torn Ukraine. The Met said the work will be a fictionalized telling of Ukrainian mothers traveling thousands of miles to Russian-occupied territory to reclaim their children from Russian authorities. The story is based on real-...
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New York (AFP) - New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday it was stripping the Sackler name from several exhibition wings, amid ongoing controversy over the billionaire family's alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis. The Sackler name will be removed from seven exhibitions, among them the wing housing the Temple of Dendur, the Met said in a joint statement with the family. The Sacklers -- long a major benefactor of museums and prestigious universities -- owned pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, and are accused of profiting off the sale of the opioid OxyContin that is blamed for ...
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New York (AFP) - After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labor disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopened Monday with a history-making debut -- the first work by a Black composer. "Fire Shut Up In My Bones," a poignant opera centered on the tension of growing up a Black man in the American South, was composed by Terence Blanchard, a top-tier jazz trumpeter and Spike Lee's go-to film score master for three decades. When the premier US opera company in 2019 first announced its forthcoming staging, it was unclear when exactly "Fire" wou...
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New York (AFP) - After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labor disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopens Monday with a history-making debut -- the first work by a Black composer. The premier US opera company will present "Fire Shut Up In My Bones" by Terence Blanchard, the top-tier jazz trumpeter and Spike Lee's go-to film score master for three decades. When its staging was first announced in 2019, it was unclear when exactly "Fire" would come to Manhattan. But the months of Black Lives Matter protests that reverberated nationwide a...
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New York (AFP) - New York is done with dressing down: the splashy black-tie Met Gala returned Monday, with a cohort of Gen-Z's glitterati hosting the A-lister bash famed for its over-the-top panache -- and, despite the pandemic, this year the fashion was so fierce one guest wielded a sword. The crowd of some 400 actors, athletes, poets and performers -- all of whom were either vaccinated or had tested negative for Covid-19 -- was largely maskless on the cream carpet, defying the global coronavirus pandemic that forced the cancellation of last year's event. "It's so surreal," US rapper Megan T...
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New York (AFP) - After months of uncertainty members of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra on Tuesday announced they'd ratified their contract with management, setting the stage for the largest US performing arts organization to reopen next month. "We are thrilled to be returning to regular performances very soon, and look forward to reconnecting with our audiences," said the local 802 branch president Adam Krauthamer and the Met Orchestra Committee in a joint statement. The collective bargaining agreement follows months of often heated labor talks including pay cuts for musicians, who for near...
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New York (AFP) - New York's Metropolitan Opera will require audiences and performers to be fully vaccinated for its upcoming season, the house announced Tuesday amid debate in the United States about mandatory vaccinations. The Met said all customers, staff and members of its orchestra and chorus will need to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 for performances in the 2021–22 season. "The Met will be a fully vaccinated house," the prestigious institution said in an email sent to patrons. Children under the age of 12, a group currently ineligible for vaccines, will not be allowed to ente...
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