Review: A Young Soprano Meets the Hype at the Met Opera

(Critic's Pick) NEW YORK — Deep in the somber second act of Tchaikovsky’s opera “The Queen of Spades,” an old countess suddenly turns curmudgeonly critic. The culture, she complains, isn’t what it was when she was young, in the glory days of 18th-century Russia. “They don’t know how to dance or sing,” she sniffs at the new generation. “Who dances or sings today?” Well, there’s at least one easy answer to that question: soprano Lise Davidsen, who made a radiant debut at the Metropolitan Opera ...