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At the Met Opera, It’s Traditional Puritans for New Year’s Eve

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager.

When the soprano Lisette Oropesa sang the role of Elvira in a production of “I Puritani” in Paris earlier this year, her face was caked in ghostly white makeup and she spent much of the evening navigating stairs on the set’s revolving frame of a hous… [1356 chars]

Source: The New York Times | Published: 2025-12-30T16:00:23Z

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