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Review: A Lost Opera Returns, and Shouldn’t Be Lost Again
Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna di Resburgo” its first performances since its premiere in 1835.
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The Nearly Lost Work of a ‘Born Opera Composer’ Returns
Historians try to be precise, so it is awkward to admit that I can’t recall exactly when I first noticed…
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Audiences Are Returning to the Met Opera, but Not for Everything
The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences…
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A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois
“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original…
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Stars Singing Under the Stars: A Global Gala Celebrates Opera
Italy’s government pulled out all the stops to celebrate one of Italy’s most important national art forms.
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Memo to Orchestras: Do More Opera
The Cleveland Orchestra’s staging of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” was a reminder that ensembles can help fill the gap as…
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Review: A Delightful ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera
The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production.
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Review: An Opera Saw Red-Pill Culture Coming. Now, It’s Back.
Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave…
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an…
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La Scala Opera Taps an Italian to Be Its Next Leader
Fortunato Ortombina, the general director of Teatro La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, will succeed Dominique Meyer, a respected French impresario.