Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

May 23, 2024 | classicalvoiceamerica.org | David Shengold |Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Opera’s late-season revival of Mark Morris‘ compellingly idiosyncraticOrfeo ed Eurydice — like the plot of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s seminal azione teatrale (“theatrical action”) itself — experienced a sudden unexpected loss: British conductor Christian Curnyn, a Baroque specialist who’s earned good notices elsewhere and worked before (including Partenope at New York City Opera and Tolomeo at Glimmerglass a dozen years back) with the revival’s popular star,...