While Wilson, who is married to Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, is an experienced conductor, there were some grumbles when the season was announced about a plum gig going to the boss’s wife.īut the quality of her work on Thursday spoke for itself. When Sergei first seduces Katerina and she limply resists, singing, “I’m a married woman,” Sozdateleva conveys the line’s strange cool tenderness it’s not sincere, but it’s not a joke.Īlso making a notable company debut was Keri-Lynn Wilson, on the podium. Her voice becomes strident and slicing as it rises in pitch and intensity, but it’s never ugly. In an excellent Met debut, the soprano Svetlana Sozdateleva is seen-it-all yet soulful, and often magnetically still, as if dazed by the world veering around her.
But the opera is dominated by Katerina, its scheming Lady Macbeth.
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