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Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10
“There are all these unbelievable artists who are creating work that’s really hard to define,” Beth Morrison, a music theater…
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America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company
There is no house in the United States dedicated to presenting works from a prominent corner of homegrown music theater…
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Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set
Julie Taymor’s version of Mozart’s opera, a fairy tale of puppets and plexiglass, achieves its finest form in the Met’s…
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A Cyberattack Shuts the Met Opera’s Box Office, but the Show Goes On
After hackers knocked out the ticket-selling system of the Met, the largest performing arts organization in the United States, the…
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An Opera Company’s Precarious Future Has Some Worried About a Ripple Effect
For a month now, politicians, newspapers and classical music stars have been arguing over the future of English National Opera.…
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Met Opera, Reeling From Cyberattack, Will Sell Tickets on New Site
The company’s computer systems have been down for more than three days. It will now use a Lincoln Center website…
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Best Classical Music Performances of 2022
The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian musicians banding together, a new “Ring” at Bayreuth, and the opening…
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A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met
Carlo Rizzi, a Met Opera regular sometimes taken for granted, opened the company’s season this fall and has juggled “Medea,”…
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Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar
“The Hours” — a new opera based on the 1998 novel and the 2002 film it inspired — features a…
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‘The Hours’ Becomes an Opera. Don’t Expect the Book or Film.
“I think it needs to be more surreal,” the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin said from the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan…