The Metropolitan Opera returned to its home after an 18-month absence caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
Levine’s successor as music director was on the podium. The 46-year-old Nézet-Séguin led a performance of far more impact and subtlety than Levine’s final efforts, when his conducting was hampered by Parkinson’s Disease. In the first performance at the house since Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” on March 11, 2020, the four soloists were all superb: soprano Ailyn Pérez, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, tenor Matthew Polenzani and bass-baritone Eric Owens.
The first two rows of the orchestra were covered, increasing separation between the performances and audience.Gregory Zuber’s bass drum thundered during the a “Dies Irae . Perez and Polenzani sang ethereally. Nézet-Séguin conducted spaciously.
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