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Aspen said goodbye to the much-loved Emerson Quartet last week at the Aspen Music Festival and heard joltingly big-boned music from another Aspen regular in Bobbie McDuffie. But a Mozart opera refashioned intriguingly for the 2,000-seat Benedict Music Tent stole the show.
Following this week’s semifinal competition, ten singers have advanced to the final round of the 2023 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. The finalists will compete on the Met stage on Sunday, April 23, at 3PM ET, hosted by Latonia Moore, the 2000 Grand Finals–winning soprano and star of the Met’s new production of Terence Blanchard’s Champion.
George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s “Lessons in Love and Violence” is a masterly follow-up to their acclaimed “Written on Skin.”