NOTÍCIAS DOS EUA

Go do it: The Met's Macbeth shows on the big screen

The Idaho Statesman Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:23 PM PST

Seeing an HD broadcast of a Metropolitan Opera performance on a movie theater screen is opera like you've never seen it before, even if you frequent the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. What you see on the screen is the work of another director (not the director of the opera) who oversees the production, decides on camera angles and tries to translate the excitement of a live performance ...
HANDSOME AND UNSETTLING

Lexington Herald-Leader Fri, 04 Jan 2008 0:08 AM PST

Usually, when we say a show is fantastic, we mean that it was "excellent, superlative," as Merriam-Webster defines the word. That's definition No. 3. But in definition No. 1, according to the dictionary's Web site, fantastic also means "conceived or seemingly conceived by unrestrained fancy." The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel fits either ...
For the Record

Montreal Gazette Fri, 04 Jan 2008 0:57 AM PST

The caption below a photo in yesterday's paper gave an incorrect first name for tenor Joseph Kaiser, the Montreal native who recently made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Standing out

The TimesLedger Newspapers Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:18 AM PSTCongratulate Dimitri Pittas for the critical praise he has received for his portrayal of Macduff in the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" and he is likely to deflect the compliment.