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In a message on social networks, Sonya Yoncheva announces that she will be back at the Met Opera in 2025. An announcement which follows a complicated 4-month New York sequence for the Bulgarian soprano who had resented certain criticisms after her performance in Norma.
Sonya Yoncheva returned to the Met Opera to attend a concert conducted by her husband
In mid-March, Sonya Yoncheva had publicly criticized the critic of the New York Times his comments about his performance at the Met Opera in Norma by Vincenzo Bellini. Criticisms that had provoked a real campaign of hatred against him on social networks. The Bulgarian soprano had even castigated the ” vocal racists which attack opera singers and had canceled, officially for health reasons, his participation in the last 3 performances of Norma and announced that his social media posts would be managed by his team.
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15 days later, it seems that this painful episode has been well digested since on Twitter and Instagram, a message indicates that the singer was delighted to attend a Lincoln Center performance of Tosca by Giacomo Puccini conducted by her husband, the Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan, and that she will be back at the Met Opera in 2025 for a role that she describes as ” exciting”.
Sonya Yoncheva at home in Sofia for 2 recitals in April
This new role for Sonya Yoncheva, if we trust the words of Peter Gelb, the director of the Met Opera, should take place during the performances ofA masked ball by Giuseppe Verdi, knowing that she will also appear in New York during the year 2025 in revivals of Medea of Luigi Cherubini and of The queen of spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Until then, the Bulgarian soprano will mainly perform in Europe. At home in Hungary to begin with, this month in Sofia, on April 12 and 15 for a recital devoted to works by Georg Friedrich Handel.
Philippe Gault
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