Sir David McVicar's witty and efferverscent production of Handel's most popular opera, GIULIO CESARE, arrives at the Met with Natalie Dessay and David Daniels in the leading roles and Harry Bicket on ...

The Metropolitan Opera heads into its 20th week of free streaming performances through its Nightly Met Streams series. Among the new lineup are two productions directed by Tony winner Mary Zimmerman: ...

With her chestnut hair pulled up and her slight frame packed into pants and a high-necked sweater — her rehearsal garb on this chill Chicago afternoon — Natalie Dessay hardly looks like Mozart’s Queen ...

"Becoming Traviata" peeks in on rehearsals as director Jean-François Sivadier prepared soprano Natalie Dessay to play brokenhearted prostitute Violetta in Verdi's opera. Though Dessay flexes ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Her character Antonia literally sings herself to death in Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann," but in real life Natalie Dessay says her own upcoming break from opera is not so ...

On my free night last week, I went to see “Giulio Cesare.” Because why stay home and catch up with “Smash” when I could be spending four and a half hours at the Met? I’ll refer to my colleague James ...

Even in opera, madness can take other forms besides extravagant, unhinged flailing. The title character in the powerful account of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" that opened Tuesday night at the ...

When soprano Natalie Dessay showed up for rehearsals for the 2011 production of “La Traviata” at the annual Aix-en-Provence Festival in France, she encountered a rather unwelcome presence -- a ...

The vocal fortunes of the French soprano Natalie Dessay have waxed and waned in recent years, and this star of several Met productions since her 1994 debut is now reportedly taking a sabbatical from ...

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