Overall, Mayer's transfer of Verdi's first great middle-period opera from 16th-century Mantua to a 1960 hotel and casino on the Strip resulted in straightforward storytelling.
" There will be new-to-the-Met productions of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin, " Nico Muhly's "Two Boys" and Verdi's "Falstaff' that already have debuted in Europe.
Schiller (and doctored history) are also the basis of Verdi's "Don Carlos, " but Verdi and his librettists took a much deeper look at the intersection of love, power and politics than Donizetti did.