Movies: Alek Shrader
- 2015
The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow (2015)
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Renée Fleming lights up the Met stage as Hanna Glawari, the fabulously wealthy widow of the title in Lehár’s beloved operetta, set in Paris and seen in a glittering production directed and choreographed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman. Nathan Gunn is Dan...
- 2014
Donizetti: Don Pasqual - Glyndebourne (2014)
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One of the reasons why Donizetti's Don Pasquale is regarded as a cornerstone of the Italian comic opera tradition is because its characters are no mere commedia dell’arte stereotypes, but complex, vulnerable human beings. This is brought to the fore ...
- 2013
L'heure espagnole (2013)
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L'Heure espagnole is a one-act operatic farce written by Ravel and first premiered in 1911. The title's literal translation is "The Spanish Hour", but here the word "heure" refers more generally to "time", reminiscent of the cliché, "How They Keep Ti...
- 2015
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - The San Francisco Opera (2015)
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It is love at first sight when the knight Walther von Stolzing first meets the goldsmith’s daughter, Eva. But tradition trumps love in 19th-century Nuremberg. Her father has decreed there’s only one way to win Eva’s hand in marriage, and that’s to jo...
- 2009
The Audition (2009)
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An engrossing behind-the-scenes quasi-documentary as 10 hopefuls vie for a spot on the Met's roster....