Richard Bratby

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap: Metropolitan Opera’s At-Home Gala reviewed

There was probably never much doubt that Anna Netrebko would upstage every other singer involved

Through the keyhole: Diana Damrau and Nicolas Testé singing a duet from Don Giovanni — and getting slightly too tactile in front of the Nespresso machine 
issue 02 May 2020
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. With the world’s opera houses currently dark, the New York Metropolitan Opera tackled the crisis the way it knows best — by assembling the most glamorous possible list of vocal megastars and presenting them at astronomical expense. But dollars can’t get around social distancing, and in lockdown even the greatest voice is only as good as the mic on a smartphone.

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