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DESCRIPTION:Nov 1\, 2026 - May 27\, 2027\nA New Yorker with 72 hours to spa
 re\, or 48 if in a hurry\, could do this. Jet to Fiumicino\, drop the over
 night bag\, and hotfoot past the bombastic frescoes of the minor basilica 
 of Sant’ Andrea della Valle on to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Farnes
 e and up the steps to the terrazza atop Castel Sant’Angelo. Alternativel
 y\, you can visit these locations in three hours from your ticketed seat w
 atching Giacomo Puccini’s imperishable Tosca in David McVicar’s you-ar
 e-there staging for the Metropolitan Opera. Between November and May you h
 ave north of two dozen opportunities to do so. A partial slate of the big 
 names passing through includes Saioa Hernández\, Eleonora Buratto\, and S
 ondra Radvanovsky as Rome’s reigning diva Floria Tosca\; SeokJong Baek\,
  Matthew Polenzani\, and Roberto Alagna as her firebrand lover Cavaradossi
 \; and Quinn Kelsey\, Željko Lučić\, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Scarpia
 \, the spymaster who doesn’t like their politics. Some of the conductors
  on the case are Oksana Lyniv\, Daniele Rustioni\, and Karel Mark Chichon.
  Why\, against this backdrop\, Gustavo Dudamel would elect to quit David G
 effen Hall\, next door to the Met\, for a pair of mind’s-eye Toscas in c
 oncert at Carnegie Hall is a question for which we can find no good answer
 . Yes\, he has an ace-in-the hole in the bankable Jonas Kaufmann\, whose C
 avaradossi\, opposite Patricia Racette’s Tosca and Bryn Terfel’s Scarp
 ia\, set the Met on fire 16 years ago. But Kaufmann and the Met have been 
 Splitsville since the pandemic (it’s the fee structure\, stupid!). At Ca
 rnegie Hall\, he shares the spotlight with Marina Rebeka (absent from the 
 Met since 2017) and Ludovic Tézier (ditto since 2011). Along with the Rub
 en Bládes/Spanish Harlem special in Washington Heights in May and the roc
 k-out son et lumière with Lizzo at Radio City in September\, the incipien
 t opera-in-concert series off the Lincoln Center campus at Carnegie Hall l
 ooks to be one more push in the Dude’s Flood the Zone strategy for the B
 ig Apple. Next stop\, Greenland?
LOCATION:Metropolitan Opera\, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza\, New York\, NY 10023
 \, USA
SUMMARY:Tosca\, by Giacomo Puccini
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