Kirstin Chávez

Toute nouvelle production auu Met de la tragédie bien-aimée de Verdi, La Traviata, est en soi remarquable. M%ais la mise en scène éblouissante de Michael Mayer de la la saison 2018-2019 l'est particulièrement car elle marque les premières performances de Yannick Nézet-Séguin en tant que directeur musicale du Met, qui mène ici un ensemble étoilé. Dans le rôle de Violetta, l'héroïne phtisique luttant pour trouver le vrai bonheur, la soprano Diana Damrau livre un portrait convaincant . Sans le rôle d'Alfredo, l'amant ardent mais impétueux de Violetta, le ténor Juan Diego Flórez chante son premier rôle de Verdi avec la compagnie. Le baryton Quinn Kelsey complète le casting principal dans le rôle de Giorgio Germont, le père implacable d'Alfredo.

On the run after a series of tragic incidents, five North Philly teens find refuge in an abandoned, condemned house in West Philadelphia at the exact location that served as headquarters of the MOVE organization, where a 1985 standoff with police infamously ended with a neighborhood destroyed and 11 people dead, including five children. This self-defined family is assuaged and even inspired by the ghosts who inhabit this home and begin to see their squatting as a matter of destiny and resistance rather than urgent fear. Combining spoken word, contemporary movement, video projection, classical, R&B and jazz singing, and a brooding, often joyful score filled with place, purpose, and possibility, We Shall Not Be Moved is a timely exploration of past and present struggles which suggests an alternate future through the eyes of its young protagonists.