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Opera’s Lack of Diversity Extends to Offstage, a Study Shows
Opera has long grappled with a lack of racial diversity. Black, Latino and Asian singers have struggled to be cast…
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The Odesa opera house reopens, defying Russia’s aggression.
Shuttered since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, Odesa's opera house reopened on Friday with a…
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Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise
Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in an awesome display of its might.…
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At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake
Has there ever been a Metropolitan Opera season like the one that just ended? In which the stuff onstage —…
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Arts
An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself
When he composed “Harvey Milk,” in the early 1990s, Stewart Wallace was adding to a string of much discussed “biopic”…
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With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Five years ago, the directors of Spoleto Festival USA here asked the musician Rhiannon Giddens two questions.…
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Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future
DETROIT — “When a man is lost,” sings Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X’s wife, “does the sky bleed for him, or…
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Review: ‘Hamlet’ Boldly Engulfs the Metropolitan Opera
An opera composer would need the epic gifts and epic gall of a Richard Wagner to consider an adaptation of…
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Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone
By the looks of it, there is little in common between the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor”…
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Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage
Simon Stone paused during a recent rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera, looked up at the stage, and surveyed his new…
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