Watching Opera on a Jumbotron
Most opera fans aren’t exactly awed by the beauty of the broadcast version, but the practice is still worthwhile, ...
The Met Opera’s New Season: What We’re Excited to See
Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes six new productions and modern works by Mason Bates, Kaija Saariaho ...
Review: The Joffrey Ballet takes us to Pea Town in a feel-good, wacky fantasy with a cautionary tale
The adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Princess and the Pea” is one of four works in the lovely current “Golden Hour.” ...
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How Do You Write an Opera Based on Moby-Dick?
I wrote a forty-to-fifty-page treatment, which no one ever saw, of how the opera would unfold. And then I got that down to fifteen pages, which the composer saw, and then ten pages, which the ...
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In 'Dreaming in Ensemble,' WPI professor explores how Black artists helped transform opera
WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...
Why Is an Entire Age of American Opera Missing at the Met?
A concert performance of “Vanessa” freshly argued for the vitality of a work that deserves to be staged but languishes with ...
"Morgiane," a forgotten opera written by Black composer in 1855, performed for the first time
"Morgiane" is believed to be the oldest existing opera written by a Black American, but it wasn't seen by audiences until ...
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Hear opera, show tunes by the Marble City Opera at Oak Ridge's Grove Theatre on Feb. 23
Marble City Opera will present a concert of opera and musical theater favorites at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in the Historic ...
The Arts Desk6d
The Marriage of Figaro, Welsh National Opera review - no concessions and no holds barred
Drained as they are at present of crucial funds, WNO are managing to put on only two operas this spring, and spaced out to ...
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Want to see opera outdoors? There's only one place to go, and it's not NYC. It's Naples.
The Opera Naples festival offers three weeks of fully staged operas, the Tchaikovsky ballet "Sleeping Beauty" and more.
LA Opera drops Missy Mazzoli’s 'Lincoln in the Bardo,' which will premiere at New York's Met
The Los Angeles Opera dropped a contemplated world premiere for the second straight season in a cost-cutting move, and Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” will instead open at New ...
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It’s crunch time for Opera Australia. Should it ditch Melbourne?
Last year’s production of Sunset Boulevard is shaping up as a major misstep for Opera Australia.Credit: Artwork by Michael Howard In the basement of The Opera Centre (“Toc” to those who work ...