Reviewed in the NYR

October 23, 2012 – November 17, 2012

In the December 6 issue, Geoffrey O'Brien writes, “Just two evenings—although it now seems longer ago—before the storm that devastated New York and provoked fresh awareness of what it actually is like to live on an island, I was contemplating an imaginary island and a storm made of lighting effects, swirling fabric, and bars of music on the stage of the Met, the opening moments of Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest. It was certainly a rare occasion—when was the last time the Met presented a contemporary opera with the composer conducting? The work has attracted wide international attention since its Covent Garden premiere in 2004, but this is its first New York appearance.”

The final performance of The Tempest will take place on Saturday, November 17. For more information, please visit metoperafamily.org.

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