Just in: Met sings ‘Va, pensiero’ for Israel’s dead
NewsWe hear that before curtain-up on Verdi’s Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera last night, Peter Gelb said a few words to the audience about the Hamas massacres in Israel.
The chorus then gave a rendition of the slaves’ song ‘Va, pensiero’, which left main among the audience in tears.
The Met was the first US performing organisation to acknowledge the atrocity.
We understand that the conductor Mirga Grazynte-Tyla had something planned for her New York Philharmonic debut last night, and we await eyewitness accounts.
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