Nézet-Séguin fought for: He persuaded the Met to restore the second intermission in “La Traviata.” The company, conscious that many people now prefer shorter nights at the opera, had been performing the work with only one intermission in recent years. “He’s very invested in, and interested in, the narrative information that is conveyed through music that is unrelated to the libretto.” Mayer said shortly before the start of the first stage rehearsal.
Nézet-Séguin worked closely with the creative team to align the staging with the music, tweaking the blocking in one duet to help the singers and making sure the motivations of the characters were rooted in the score. “Like a vir-ir-ir-ir-gin,” the Met’s new music director sang, channeling Madonna.ĭuring rehearsals Mr. Flórez to sing the drinking song in the first act softly, as the score indicates - to underscore that Alfredo is still insecure and sexually inexperienced - he drove the point home in a characteristically good-humored way. “He wants to bring back the attention to detail that this part has,” he said in an interview. Flórez, whose Alfredo promises nevertheless to be very much in the bel canto tradition, praised Mr.
He has been helping the singers hone their roles - especially the star tenor Juan Diego Flórez, a bel canto specialist known for his high C’s, who is singing the somewhat lower and less elaborately ornamented role of Alfredo for the first time. At his first “Traviata” rehearsal with the orchestra, he paused often to fine-tune passages, even though the company has performed the piece more than a thousand times. And although it will be a few seasons before he takes on his full workload at the Met and implements some of his plans for commissions and collaborations, he is already making his presence felt.
Nézet-Séguin, who had originally been set to assume the post in 2020, moved up his start date to take a stronger musical hand at the opera house after the allegations against Mr.
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