Met’s ‘Masked Ball’ Is Seductive as Airport Parking Lot

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I expected a lot from David Alden, a director who once turned Tchaikovsky’s “Mazeppa” into a chainsaw massacre.

On Thursday, the American Alden, 63, made his belated debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” (A Masked Ball).