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Each November I start to usually try Yr Finish Lists which collects the highest 10-, 25- and even 50-lists from all around the web. They’re nice enjoyable to peruse and agree or, extra typically, disagree with. In hopes of encouraging parterre field readers to concoct their very own, I’ve put collectively:
My Dozen Divas/Divos of 2024 (in no specific order)
- Elza van den Heever & Russell Thomas
This celestial pair soared above all within the Met’s latest revival of Die Frau ohne Schatten, one Strauss opera that continues to elude my grasp.
- Michael Spyres
The tenor’s preliminary ventures into Wagner proved fantastically profitable: his first Lohengrin in Strasbourg and his first Siegmund on the Bayreuth Pageant.
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- Marie Lys, Anna Denis, Sophie Junker, Raffaella Milanesi, and Anna Bonitatibus
These 5 excellent baroque specialists (who hardly ever carry out within the US) have been standouts throughout my first go to to the Halle Handel-Festspiele in Might.
- Jonathan Tetelman
The prize for probably the most egregious curtain name I’ve ever seen on the Met after his preening Pinkerton—his portrayal solely served to make me admire Asmik Grigorian’s haunting Cio-Cio-San much more.
Bye, Felicia!
- Lise Davidsen
In 2024 alone the Norwegian soprano conquered (a few of) NYC together with her Forza Leonora, Tosca and Wesendonck Lieder, in addition to launched her smashing Salome in Paris and act two of her Isolde in Munich.
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- Mikey Madison (Anora); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Onerous Truths); Lêa Seydoux (The Beast); Daniel Craig (Queer) & Josh O’Connor (La Chimera & Challengers)
My 5 favourite film divas/divos of this 12 months.
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- Elina Garanca
Her luxurious Judith in a live performance Bluebeard’s Citadel with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Corridor jogged my memory how a lot I’ve missed her and obtained me praying that she reveals up for Amneris in April.
- All the forged and refrain of the Berlin Staatsoper’s Khovanshchina
So thrilling to expertise Mussorgsky’s nice opera once more is a principally persuasive staging by Claus Guth. I hope that the Simon McBurney model due subsequent 12 months in Salzburg might be one Met co-production that truly results in New York (in contrast to three latest European Handel hits)!
- Benjamin Bernheim
The trendy French tenor memorably turned woeful Bartlett Sher productions of Roméo et Juliette (wherein he was paired spectacularly with Nadine Sierra) and Les Contes d’Hoffmann into “can’t miss” Met occasions.
- Gwendoline Blondeel
The Belgian’s crystalline soprano is featured in my very favourite CD of 2024: Mondonville’s Le Carnaval du Parnasse. I’ve misplaced depend what number of instances I’ve listened to this delectable romp which by no means fails to place a smile on my face.
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Blondeel was additionally a part of the fantastic Vox Luminis ensemble that carried out a heavenly Purcell Fairy Queen in Dortmund in June.
- Criterion Closet instances
The premiere producer of DVDs and BluRays has expanded its fascinating sequence of movie individuals snatching up copies of their favorites.
A very charming latest Closet case incorporates a stunning Pamela Anderson.
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Immeasurable due to Bonnie Prince Harry for his tireless efforts to guarantee that parterre field continued to flourish–and seem each day with out fail–all through 2024.
