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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At Munich’s prestigious opera house, the Russian-born Vladimir Jurowski has broadened the repertoire while rooting his work in political awareness.
A tireless advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character…
His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century.
Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s new opera, about events still in progress, finds fault and complicity in every player of…
As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production.
A soprano who rose from South Philadelphia to the opera houses of Europe, she was memorably seen and heard in…
After Yuval Sharon became the artistic director of Michigan Opera Theater in 2020, the company renamed itself the Detroit Opera…
Starring a magnetic Aigul Akhmetshina, Carrie Cracknell’s lethargic staging updates Bizet’s opera to present-day America.
In her 23 years at the Met, she sang with the greatest stars of her day. She had a second…