Opera
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Memo to Orchestras: Do More Opera
The Cleveland Orchestra’s staging of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” was a reminder that ensembles can help fill the gap as…
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Review: A Delightful ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera
The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production.
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Review: An Opera Saw Red-Pill Culture Coming. Now, It’s Back.
Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave…
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an…
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World
La Scala Opera Taps an Italian to Be Its Next Leader
Fortunato Ortombina, the general director of Teatro La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario.
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‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Review: A Met Milestone Returns
After making history as the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire” is back — with…
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A Conductor Who Believes That No Artist Can Be Apolitical
At Munich’s prestigious opera house, the Russian-born Vladimir Jurowski has broadened the repertoire while rooting his work in political awareness.
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News
Peter Eotvos, Hungarian Modernist Composer and Conductor, Dies at 80
A tireless advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character…
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World
Aribert Reimann, Masterful German Opera Composer, Is Dead at 88
His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century.
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Review: ‘The Shell Trial’ Seeks a Guilty Party in Climate Change
Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s new opera, about events still in progress, finds fault and complicity in every player of…