OPERA

Wagner: Lohengrin

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023 (continuing through APRIL 1)
2:00 PM

Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$32.50-$392.50
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Why does Wagner get Listed? Cuz like him or hate him, he had a large hand in inventing the modern avant-garde. Director François Girard did a great job with Parsifal and a terrible job with The Flying Dutchman (and, in another medium, a great job with Glenn Gould). Will he be able to undermine the smarmy misogyny of this work the way he did the vicious misogyny of Parsifal (nevertheless a vastly superior piece — indeed, vastly superior to almost all other operas)? You have to swallow your bitterness at the Met’s abandonment of its Robert Wilson production and go see it to find out. Oh, and the Act 1 Prelude may be the most beautiful thing in all Western music.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: A Sunday matinée doesn’t present the problems — especially in this neighborhood — of an evening performance of a work of four-and-a-half-hours’ duration (including the Met’s interminable intermissions). So Detroit-style pizza at the Emmy Squared branch that has materialized near Lincoln Center.