The moving Les Sept Paroles du Christ (In English "The Seven Last Words of Christ") by the nineteenth century French composer Théodore Dubois depicts in music the last words Jesus uttered during his crucifixion. This dramatic and powerful setting is scored for large chorus, soloists and a chamber orchestra of strings, oboe, flute, timpani, harp […]
Some of the greatest singers at the Metropolitan Opera, past and present, joined the Met roster through the opera company’s audition program for young North Americans — among them, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and Jessye Norman. Today, the audition program is known as the Laffont Competition. Though the competition dates all the way back to […]