The Metropolitan Opera has returned to its home after an 18-month pandemic absence. Before a masked crowd of 3,600, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a performance of the Verdi Requiem to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
This photo provided by The Metropolitan Opera shows a rehearsal for Verdi Requiem on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021 at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Before a masked crowd of 3,600, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a performance of the Verdi Requiem in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Met had not performance in its house since March 11, 2020, the longest gap since the company started in 1883.
For the first time in 550 days, an audience was inside the auditorium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday night, attending a poignant performance of the Verdi Requiem. The night was in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks but in fact marked much more.
Following a year of labor strife that culminated in new contracts, the Met orchestra of 90 and chorus of 120 led by chorus master Donald Palumbo showed the world-class status they reached under Levine, basking in the rapturous applause of an audience starved for live music. Some in the audience congratulated long unseen friends and acquaintances for making it through the 18 months. There were no speeches from the stage. This was the second step in the Met’s return following a pair of Mahler Seconds performed outdoors last weekend in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park.
Gregory Zuber’s bass drum thundered during the a “Dies Irae . Perez and Polenzani sang ethereally. Nézet-Séguin conducted spaciously.
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