The documentary The Opera House was released in theaters in 2017 on the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the “New Met” at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chronicling the creation of Lincoln Center, the movie begins with the genesis of the idea for a new opera house, which dates to the pre-Depression era (the original Metropolitan Opera House—the “Old Met”—opened in 1883), and it concludes with the dramatic opening night at the new theater on September 16, 1966, when the company offered the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. Following Wagner's Dream (2012), The Opera House is the second documentary about the Met to be directed by Susan Froemke and produced by Met general manager Peter Gelb, whose career has been defined by promoting and expanding the reach of classical music through media. PBS has been airing and streaming The Opera House...
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Spring 2019
Book Review|
April 01 2019
Review: The Opera House, directed by Susan Froemke
The Opera House
, directed by Susan Froemke. New York
: Metropolitan Opera
, 2018
. DVD. 111 mins.
Christopher Lynch
Christopher Lynch
CHRISTOPHER LYNCH is Project Coordinator at the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh and Artist Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University. His book project on the production of Mozart's operas at the Metropolitan Opera House in the 1940s and 1950s has been supported by the Kurt Weill Foundation and the William Holmes / Frank D'Accone Endowment of the American Musicological Society.
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Journal of the American Musicological Society (2019) 72 (1): 295–302.
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Christopher Lynch; Review: The Opera House, directed by Susan Froemke. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2019; 72 (1): 295–302. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.1.295
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