A new report found that women are dramatically underrepresented when it comes to conducting, directing and designing operas at leading…
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Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban Bush…
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The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh…
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On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal…
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With Parterre Box, he brought together high culture, punk aesthetics and gleeful camp in an irreverent source for news, criticism…
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The organization, founded in 1935 to support the opera house, will lay off 20 employees and stop publishing Opera News…
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The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.
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As the 2022-23 season ends, the country’s largest performing arts institution looks ahead to a future of fewer titles.
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Among our critic’s recommendations are multiple “Ring” cycles, a premiere by Ellen Reid and the soprano Lise Davidsen in Strauss’s…
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A production of “War and Peace” in Germany, with a heavily Russian cast and production team, must balance competing demands…
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