In her 23 years at the Met, she sang with the greatest stars of her day. She had a second…
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This selection of works, available to rent and purchase, features some of today’s boldest directors and greatest vocal talents.
Read More »Her voice is the shadow that remains after shock, after anger: the sound of a woman realizing she has nothing…
Read More »Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling…
Read More »Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a…
Read More »Mary Zimmerman, known for a dreamy approach to theater, stages the Metropolitan Opera’s company premiere of “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
Read More »Wearing combat boots and a U.S. Air Force flight suit, the mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo took her place onstage one recent…
Read More »A gift from a board member recently paid for the company to rebuild sets for Franco Zeffirelli’s deathless 1981 production…
Read More »R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions…
Read More »A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading…
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