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John Adams’s Shakespeare adaptation has been trimmed since its premiere, but still struggles with setting a flood of dense Elizabethan verse.
While still a UWM student in 2015, Henry advanced to the finals of the national Metropolitan Opera auditions competition ... with symphony orchestras: Wagner with the Dallas Symphony earlier ...
The L.A. Opera revival is a new production that has been making the rounds at Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, Detroit Opera and, last fall, New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It’s the work ...
Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...
Giulio Cesare is once again competing with Antony and Cleopatra, the latter this time a new work by John Adams that premiered ...
An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist ...
For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...
“We were [opera] members way, way back, when we first moved back into Park Slope… We used to go very often and took great joy in it.” He and his wife had box seats at the Metropolitan ...
Colman Domingo attends the 2025 Met Gala celebrating "Superfine ... and referring to it as a "shower curtain." "Here he is wearing what appears to be a giant shower curtain topped by the ...
This spring, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis kicks off its landmark 50th anniversary season, a golden milestone celebrating five decades of storytelling, innovation, and community. Founded in 1976, OTSL ...
The new ROH Ring reaches its second evening with the best all-round cast I can recall in Die Walkure: the uniformly sonorous sounds emanating from the stage are matched by the glorious row coming ...
There is a strong case that Wagner’s Die Walküre is the greatest opera ever written. It has everything, from the broad sweep of the Ring cycle as a whole (it’s the second of the four) to the ...