El Niño Is May 4, 2024, Met Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcast

Summary: El Niño is the May 4, 2024, Met Opera Saturday matinee broadcast, airing as 22nd of the 2023-2024 season's 27 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts.

American conductor Marion Alsop (born Oct. 16, 1956), who makes her Met Opera debut in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's El Niño in the 2023-2024 season, is profiled in The Conductor by Austrian-born linguist, author and documentary filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein (born 1969), which premiered at the 20th Tribeca Film Festival, held from Wednesday, June 9, to Sunday, June 21, 2021: Marion Alsop, via Facebook July 27, 202

Adams's El Niño is the May 4, 2024, Met Opera Saturday matinee broadcast, airing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time as the 22nd of the 2023-2024 season's lineup of 27 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts.

El Niño by American composer John Adams (born Feb. 15, 1947) receives seven performances in the 2023-2024 season. The Metropolitan Opera premiere of the opera-oratorio took place Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The second performance was held Saturday, April 27, at 8:00 p.m. The third through seventh, closing performances are scheduled for Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee broadcast, May 4, at 1:00 p.m.; Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 11, at 8:00 p.m.; and Friday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m.

Marin Alsop conducts all seven performances, including the May 4 Saturday matinee radio broadcast. The American maestro's conductorship of El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday, April 23, marked her Met Opera debut.

Julia Bullock appears in all seven performances as the opera-oratorio's soprano. The Americano soprano's appearance in El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday, April 23, marked her Met Opera debut.

Daniela Mack appears as the opera-oratorio's mezzo-soprano in the third performance, Wednesday, May 1, and in the fourth performance's May 4 Saturday matinee radio broadcast.

Daniela Mack shares the role with J'Nai Bridges, who appears as the opera-oratorio's mezzo-soprano in El Niño's first, second and fifth through seventh, closing performances. The American mezzo-soprano had made her Met Opera debut Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Akhnaten by American composer Philip Glass (born Jan. 31, 1937).

Davóne Tines appears in all seven performances as the opera-oratorio's baritone. The American bass-baritone's appearance in in El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday, April 23, marked his Met Opera debut.

Key'mon W. Murrah, Siman Chung and Eric Jurenas appear in all seven performances as the opera-oratorio's countertenor. American countertenor Key'mon W. Murrah and South Korean countertenor Siman Chung made their Met Opera debuts in El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday, April 23. American countertenor Eric Jurenas had made his Met Opera debut as Guildenstern in the opera company's second performance of Hamlet by contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor Brett Dean (born Oct. 23, 1961).

The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Adams's El Niño featured Lileana Blain-Cruz's new production of the opera-oratorio. The American director made her Met Opera debut in El Niño's Metropolitan Opera premiere Tuesday, April 23.

Lileana Blain-Cruz's production team comprises Adam Rigg, set designer; Montana Levi Blanco, costume designer; Yi Zhao, lighting designer; Hannah Wasileski, projection designer; Mark Grey, sound designer; and James Ortiz, puppet designer. Met Opera debuts alongside their director were made by New York-based set and costume designer Adam Rigg; Beijing-born and Berlin-based dance, music, opera and theater lighting designer Yi Zhao; Berlin- and Brooklyn-based American projection designer and visual artist Hannah Wasileski; and New York City-based designer, performer, playwright and director James Ortiz. American designer Montana Levi Blanco had made his Met Opera debut Monday, April 10, 2023, in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Champion by American jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard (born March 13, 1962). Mark Grey's sound designs for the Monday, Oct. 13, 2008, Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's Doctor Atomic qualified the American classical music composer, sound designer and sound engineer as the Metropolitan Opera's history-making first sound designer, according to his website (https://markgreycomposer.com/bio/).

Puccini's Madama Butterfly broadcasts May 11 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time as the 23rd of the 2023-2024 season's 27 Saturday matinee broadcasts. The 2023-2024 season's performances of Madama Butterfly mark the ninth revival of the new 2006-2007 production debuted Monday, Sep. 25, 2006, by British film director, playwright and screenwriter Anthony Minghella.

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American conductor Marion Alsop (born Oct. 16, 1956), who makes her Met Opera debut in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams's El Niño in the 2023-2024 season, is profiled in The Conductor by Austrian-born linguist, author and documentary filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein (born 1969), which premiered at the 20th Tribeca Film Festival, held from Wednesday, June 9, to Sunday, June 21, 2021: Marion Alsop, via Facebook July 27, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/marin.alsop.conductor/posts/pfbid0VkFs9sPcNH4jnjLVTeBSxrhK8W7hk5tXJmnbpuSer8JtszfGsCihZYRL29SjNoF5l

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