Opera
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5 Operas You Can Stream at Home
This selection of works, available to rent and purchase, features some of today’s boldest directors and greatest vocal talents.
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Maria Callas Was Opera’s Defining Diva. She Still Is.
Her voice is the shadow that remains after shock, after anger: the sound of a woman realizing she has nothing…
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Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For
Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling…
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Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera
Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a…
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An Opera’s Riverboat Journey Brings the Rainforest Onboard
Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
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Drone Warfare Comes to Washington’s Opera Stage
Wearing combat boots and a U.S. Air Force flight suit, the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo took her place onstage one recent…
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At the Met, a Refurbished ‘Bohème’ and an Art Deco ‘Ballo’
A gift from a board member recently paid for the company to rebuild sets for Franco Zeffirelli’s deathless 1981 production…
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Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson
R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions…
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Stark Gender Imbalance at U.S. Opera Companies Extends Beyond Podiums
A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading…
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In an Opera About Civil War Spies, Dancers Help Drive the Drama
Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush…