Tenor SeokJong Baek Opens Up About His Tenor Transformation and the Pursuit of Success Baek spoke to Observer after starring as Calaf in the opening night of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. By Annie Levin
A Humble ‘Carmen’ Outclasses an Over-the-Top ‘Tosca’ at the Metropolitan Opera Clémentine Margaine's elegant 'Carmen' showed where Sondra Radvanovsky's 'Tosca' went wrong. By James Jorden
‘Il Trovatore’ Proves Met Still Delivers Great Singing—If You Know Where to Look If only some of the musicianship Quinn Kelsey and Anita Rachvelishvili—the best parts of the Met's new Il Trovatore—would rub off on conductor Marco Armiliato. By James Jorden