![]() Levine’s successor as music director was on the podium. Verdi was a specialty, and the last of his 2,552 Met performances was the company’s previous Verdi Requiem in December 2017. ![]() He died in March at 77, a little over three years after was he was fired for sexual improprieties. ![]() It also marked the first performance in the house since the death of conductor James Levine, the Met’s towering figure of the last half-century. The company was performing in its home for the first time since hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including Met violist Vincent Lionti, assistant conductor Joel Revzen and chorister Antoine Hodge. 11, 2001, terror attacks but in fact marked much more. The night was in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. NEW YORK (AP) - Even before the first note, there were a pair of standing ovations - one when the chorus filed in and another when concertmaster Benjamin Bowman walked on to tune up the orchestra.Ībout 90 minutes later, when conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin relaxed his arms, the 3,600 people filling the seats of the Metropolitan Opera House responded with 8 1/2 minutes of thunderous applause, bringing wide smiles and hints of tears to the 200-plus performers on stage.įor the first time in 550 days, an audience was inside the auditorium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday night, attending a poignant performance of the Verdi Requiem. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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