For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Julian’s holiday card was a picture of Julian wearing a tie, looking like he was about to go to the opera or something. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

At home, I lived in a world of high drama and intrigue, immersing myself in an ever-evolving soap opera of dolls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The two composers, both born in 1813, had pursued parallel but quite separate careers in opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As usual, Papa and Mr. Smedley had been talking about opera. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once in a while, on the soap operas, is there an indi'gena, and she’s usually a fat, middle-aged maid who never speaks except for yes, senora. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, in Minneapolis, a celebrated lady opera singer got very much annoyed when she heard that the Popper Penguins were to appear on the same program. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Watching Iranian soap operas with her grandfather,” Dad said without looking up from his sketchpad. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

According to the soap operas, someday I would fall in love at first sight, but my love and I would suffer before we could be happy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My heart thumped the name “Armando,” whispered hoarsely as in the radio soap operas, and I willed him to look up and fall in love with me at first sight. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Our family is a regular nighttime soap opera.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On her head, firmly jammed down around her ears, shone the incredible curly wig of an opera star. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My feelings were so deep that I have never forgotten it, and I don’t think until I leave this earth I will ever forget it,” recalled opera and theater performer Todd Duncan. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

"He had a fight with a top contender, an Italian kid, and lost. The next day, in the papers, the contender said he won because he sang along with opera." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Verdi understood that opera was at its most powerful when attempting to impart universal truths through emotionally engaging morality fables. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The other bonus of this approach, as far as he was concerned, was that it treated the symphony, not other operas, as a structural starting point. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Celia fears that the citizens of Santa Teresa del Mar once again will consider the court as hardly more than occasion for a live soap opera. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she comes home from work, they sit on the couch, watching her favorite soap opera, with her hand resting on his arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The galleries that overlooked the ballroom were outfitted with opera boxes for fair officials and socially prominent families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Valkyries, with their leader Brunnhilde, are the warrior daughters of Wotan, a Zeus-like overlord, and have the second opera of the sequence named after them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Inventing a uniquely German form of opera, therefore, for Wagner, was a political choice. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So out of the gate of the railroad yard and into the streets of Dresden marched the light opera. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one weekend my father stopped going to the opera and polo matches. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then for two pages, he’s just hearing: hearing a steam whistle, hearing people’s voices, hearing an opera. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He wrapped a ratty blanket over his shoulders like an opera cape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If I hadn't made him watch so many episodes of Days of Our Lives, he wouldn't have developed a nasty habit of speaking in the vernacular of a soap opera villain. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If we didn’t go out, we would listen to her soap operas on the radio. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kraków was not only a historic city but also a cosmopolitan and glittering cultural center, full of theaters and cafés, an opera house and nightclubs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We might begin with a broad question as to whether opera is important and how it fits in with our culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For example, most operas were written to be popular, middle-class entertainments, and artists such as Liszt and Paganini enjoyed rock-star-like fame and popularity in their day. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So when the opera invitation arrived, he hadn’t cared who sent it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The way the show worked was that contestants would choose a category, such as movies, opera, baseball, etc., and answer questions that would become exponentially more difficult and ultimately more valuable. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Jadzia loved music and listened to Italian opera on the radio while she did her homework,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like some guy in the soap operas his mom watched. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t.v., and my family cranked me up and down. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there is no opera house in the world more exclusive than Bayreuth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t doubt that she’d go far in grand opera judging by that performance. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most figures and motifs are shorter than phrases, but some of the leitmotifs of Wagner's operas are long enough to be considered phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Soap operas with all these people with the big hair going on crying jags. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have seen the opera’s ending for what it was: a savage attack on Venice’s arch-rival state: Rome. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her family was rich and she was very refined—Lily was into books and opera— and we had black husbands, so we had that in common. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story concludes with high drama like a Bengali soap opera. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It's taken me two years to advance to the level of a Thursday, but still my seven hours of work can be undone by a single question pertaining to sports or opera. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I went to bed with the Whitman, flipping to the part I’d liked before, where he spends all the time hearing the opera and the people. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she sighed, and for the first time since their night at the opera, she offered up something more than attitude. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe we should call the baby Verdi,” Donald muses, just as the opera surges to its closing bars, and the tape ends with a click. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, here and there was the look of a famous ancient cave or a Chinese opera. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among his writings were plays that would later become famous operas, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

People think it’s such a hard read, but it’s really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Neither of them was paying attention to the opera anymore. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He wrote opera critiques for the Chicago Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Nowhere else in Europe and at no other time in European history has so much opera been performed as in Italy between 1815 and i860. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They went to a vaudeville stage show, visited the tomb of an unknown soldier from the Great War, and took in a light opera. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That sweet little Donna Correlli was booed off the stage when she tried to sing opera. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A proponent of the Great Books series—which he had read twice—Uncle Pete was engaged with serious thought and Italian opera. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Orange season, oranges, persimmons, olives, and olive oil. “I have the passions of foraging, passion of hunting, opera, my work,” he told the reporter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They turn the radio up full blast to hear the operas, which do not seem to hurt their ears. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than anything else the Bellini family liked Italian opera. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

An opera, naturally, could follow the route set by its story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A newly composed classical opera in the late-twentieth century was like Beluga caviar: a shockingly expensive commodity from an endangered species, accessible to a very privileged few but an inconceivable luxury to the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was about an artist, a lost lottery ticket, a criminal, a borrowed coat, and an opera singer, and it had one of the most amazing chase sequences that Hugo could ever imagine. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She wants to sing some opera song from her last recital for her audition piece. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Papa turned to the music teacher with a happy, hopeless expression on his face, shrugged his shoulders, and the two of them began talking about opera again. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They're not my parents. It's just a picture from an old magazine—two actors from a soap opera," Belet said, her tone cold and flat as she tossed the shreds into the air. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I understand her marriage better now, maybe from all the soap operas I’ve watched with her while lying on the floor beside her bed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concepts: As a genre, we believe opera to be a classical form, complicated, and with a long tradition and heritage rooted in the European classical tradition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The composer was Claudio Monteverdi and the new style of singing gave birth to opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That night, they watch soap operas together on the living room sofa. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments—a soap opera growing out of the ground. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this situation, pretending to be a soap opera character failed to help. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is not so far-fetched to suggest that, without his link to the Nazis, most people who were not hardcore opera lovers would by now have lost interest in Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying. It’s the opera. It’s a big deal to my parents. Whatever. Let’s go.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

This marked the first time Pacheco had seen him fly, and his heart twanged like a melodramatic soap opera chord. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She would take him to the theater, to the opera, and people would see them together and wonder at their loveliness, and recognize that they were either brother and sister or mother and son. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The actual affair may not have lasted as long as the opera itself, its incredible five- and-a-half-hour length being one of the many obstacles to its being mounted in its entirety during Berlioz’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some of his operas even reinvented Germany’s medieval past. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I spend most of the day watching the quiz programs, the old movies, the soap operas, and even the kiddie shows and cartoons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

So are Metias’s journals, and a booklet where he used to save little mementos of the things we did together—an opera, late-night dinners, early practices at the track. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

An opera was a series of songs, linked by a plot. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It smells like ammonia and there’s opera music playing somewhere. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class listened to one opera each month—at least made some effort to listen over the thunder of groans and barely suppressed expletives from the athletes who populated the last row of seats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember what soap opera heroines said to their lovers, but I couldn’t compare this boy in shorts and knee socks to the manly Ricardos and Armandos. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, it is Monteverdi’s last opera, The Coronation of Poppea, composed in 1642, his seventy-fourth and final year, that has gone down as one of the most radical dramas, never mind musical dramas, in history. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is fitting that the first great opera, composed by Monteverdi in 1607, features a hero faced with a life-or-death singing challenge in the Underworld, Orfeo. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He subsequently moved to Venice, which soon became as obsessed with opera as it had traditionally been with carnivals, and the world’s first public opera house, San Cassiano, opened there in 1637. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Audiences who attend operas are usually able to afford the price of a ticket and are of an educational level and demographic cohort that supports, understands, and appreciates the form. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As well as banning women from singing in church, the Church authorities in Rome in the early seventeenth century had issued a prohibition on opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Without the sound of the engine Gogol can hear an opera playing faindy on someone’s Walkman. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll pose as an opera fan, Rick decided as he read further. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, the Foundation has organized lectures, discussions, and excursions to the opera and the ballet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The other centre of operatic style in the nineteenth century was Paris, though French opera at that time was essentially a grander version of Italian opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But the relationship between opera and the populace could not have been more different in Italy, where opera was a popular art form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The gallery is in a fancy part of Paris, close to the stock exchange and the opera house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By the second half of the twentieth century this was certainly not the case for premieres of new operas or symphonies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Also, look for picture books that summarize the plot of a famous opera or ballet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If he had written operas rather than church music, it might have been a different story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“If you’re not enjoying the opera,” said Werfel, “there is no reason to keep sitting here like a couple of grapefruits rotted to the shelf.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was even a member of the Protestant clergy and an opera singer. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The nurses and doctors whispered their secrets on General Hospital while the soap opera organ played a tune full of worry. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As Helmuth dries the last dish, the Wagner opera is interrupted. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

"But opera? Isn't it only old ladies who sing opera?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Likewise opera, or dramma per musica as it was known in its first, Italian century, spread from its power base in Venice to Naples and Rome, and thence north into Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They spent a few hours in this formal visit, speaking of the opera season, trips to Europe, the political situation, and the winter chills, while they drank sweet wine and ate puff pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opera’s climax, and I choose that word deliberately, appears to reward them for their selfishness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

No one would ever think to look there if he wanted to break in while she was away at the opera. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

People were always yelling at one another on soap operas. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what she really wanted to be was a professional opera singer, like her father. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We had to turn on the television for the day’s soap operas and we had to turn it off before the murders on the evening news. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you actually believe them when they said that, Hairy? They bought art and went to the opera. They let you paint and sing and play.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s similar to the way, while watching our favorite soap opera, the Doctorita sobbed over the cruelty of Isaura’s enslavement while failing to see that she herself had enslaved me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His operas would be for the common people, at sensible, knock-down prices. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many told stories about how they had become addicted to Hollywood movies and South Korean soap operas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Conducting opera, in particular,” he wrote, “was a fine introduction to the problems of managing creative and independent-minded employees.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She also liked skiing, had never played Minecraft until this afternoon, and always fell asleep at the opera. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka broke into song at the end of each decade, uplifting Igbo songs that made Aunty Ifeoma sing in echoes, like an opera singer drawing the words from the pit of her stomach. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rabia looks from one of us to the other, as if she’s watching an entertainingly tense moment in a TV soap opera. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The basement bathroom at Baker & Inglis was done up like a box at the opera. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I followed the sound of her typing and dinging until I could see her through the glass door, typing madly in another opera dress. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a soap opera playing in the background when she picked up the phone. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Catharsis could only gather around the theme of love, which, considering that they were strangers trapped in an opera box, was far more uncomfortable than cathartic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She went to the ballet, to the opera, to the theater. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I listened to some of the soap operas—Life Can Be Beautiful, Stella Dallas, Mary Noble, Ma Perkins—and what I heard depressed me even more. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As though I’m a famous actress on a soap opera. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had partaken of the arts—road companies of plays and even operas, with their magic and promise of an aromatic world outside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom...a boy who invites me to the opera is either joking or delusional.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

While in Venice Monteverdi composed at least half a dozen other operas, all but two of which are now lost. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They could also buy their way into opera houses, most of which were nevertheless built, owned and controlled by rich patrons, chiefly for their own benefit and that of their friends and hangers-on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His operas would rip to shreds the comfortable and suffocating morality of the middle classes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He had the range of an opera singer. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, that position was filled by Mikhail Glinka, whose operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila had firmly established Tsarist Russia as a musical force to be reckoned with in the 1830s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Nikhil changed his,” Moushumi blurts out suddenly, and for the first time all evening, with the exception of the opera singers, the room goes completely quiet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were restaurants, advertised as cafés, and opera houses and polo grounds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Folks need to get their space opera life right. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He would listen to opera sometimes at night, closing his eyes, riding along with the magnificent voices as they dipped and soared. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wear it to the opera,” said the Colonel, almost smiling. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

An opera plays on a battered boom box on the floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Never knew people could get clopped so hard the way they clop them on those soap operas,” Mr. Savo said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man in those pictures is the same man who was fascinated by Italian grand opera. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nudged Rick forward and, together, the two of them ascended by elevator to the roof of the opera house. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Naomi propped herself up on the sofa after dinner and watched Beto try to get Edgar to fetch a bit of pencil as they all listened to a soap opera. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Ring may have aspired, through ancient myth, to explain and explore basic human instincts, yet it was still, by and large, a series of oversized operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She has changed the radio station, and a Wagner opera now fills the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kind of wanted to go watch Iranian soap operas with my grandfather and improve my Farsi too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It sounds farfetched, but like a roast forsaken in the oven or a rescheduled dental appointment, childbirth is one of those minor details that tends to slip the minds of most soap opera characters. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily for his great contemporary George Frideric Handel, opera was his thing - to start with, at least. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Orchestras and opera houses thrived under the Nazis, supported by generous state funding. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Thus an Italian opera, typically, was a series of well-defined ‘numbers’, a glorified variety show, with something for everyone and plenty of opportunity for lead singers to have their turn at impressing the audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, Granddaddy would let me watch soap operas with him every afternoon in the summer. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Singers, do not, for example, learn opera in their garages or simply by listening to recordings. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That I Pagliacci was only fifteen years old when Caruso popularised it on record - young in relation to opera’s extensive back catalogue - is, with the benefit of hindsight, strangely significant. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Maria thus begins my training in earnest, not just in opera, but in the feminine life. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Bobbette yelled from the kitchen, where she sat watching a soap opera. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After breakfast, Laleh and I settled in the living room—me to read The Lord of the Rings, and her to watch another Iranian soap opera. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before Mama’s mood had a chance to wear off, Chester began chirping the selections from opera that he had played during the party. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how different my adolescence would have been had I been free But no, it is my parents I see—their optimism during those years when they were entertained by Italian grand opera. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they kept pouring out anyway in the voice like Chinese opera. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t do awful, but I didn’t do amazing, either, not like Maggie, who sang her opera song. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The producers hope to abridge Philip’s nine-hour opera about an engineer who tries to bridge the Grand Canyon. accept/except. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby had attended a performance of the French opera with his mother and sister at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York shortly before going to Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so Phil accompanied you back to the opera house. We didn’t know that; our communications broke down about then. We knew just that she had been killed; we naturally assumed by you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At any given performance, only half the patrons were there for the actual opera. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’m deep into Soledad’s story, which is going to be juicier than any soap opera, when Manuelito appears at the edge of the eucalyptus grove, shouts something in Quichua, and then runs away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today was our first music appreciation lesson, and we listened to a classical opera song, followed by some big-band jazz tunes from Duke Ellington. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had never seen a soap opera in America, so I had no frame of reference, but the Iranian soap operas were absurd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soap opera ran on the television with the sound turned low. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tal asked Bobby if he’d ever gone to the opera, and when Bobby burst into the refrain from “The March of the Smugglers,” from Bizet’s Carmen, the Russian was temporarily silenced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She would sit at the feet of great musicians and opera singers as they practiced. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the street, there were signs for various posh businesses: an optician, a doctor, a kitchenware boutique, a maker of ladies’ fine opera gloves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, sometimes he reads them poetry. Or he starts talking to them in French. Or singing an aria from an opera. Mr. Brewer has quite a good voice.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to songs on the radio, or hearing a great voice at the opera, or overhearing the woman downstairs singing to herself at an open window, I learn much more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now,” he declared, “is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, except he's a baritone," Jane says, her music pretension apparently extending even to the world of opera. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

In some cities, London and Vienna among them, the opera was immediately banned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

People were going to the opera, to balls, to glittering dinners in the great hotels, in spite of casualty lists and the fact that the war showed no signs of ending. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who made cupcakes for me to take to school on my birthday while Mama watched soap operas in her bathrobe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The demon stopped and studied Father as you might look at a dog that had suddenly said he was going to the opera. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if this period was suddenly the new episode of a soap opera, and the long-thought-dead evil twin had just sauntered back into town. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Wagner uses them prolifically throughout his ten most famous operas to evoke pain or anguish, or to tell you something grim might be about to happen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid did indeed see a boy whose head was big, his curls enlarging it, his eyebrows thick and slanted like an opera warrior’s. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second stage was accompanied by an acknowledgement that any young composer hoping to make a splash on the opera world would need to be daring and - if possible - a little shocking. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If a black singer appeared at Carnegie Hall, it wouldn’t be in an opera but in a recital, which would include Negro spirituals. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.6: A melodic phrase based on the Siegfried leitmotif , from Wagner's opera The Valkyrie. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

By ‘popular’ I don’t mean some people quite liked it; I mean almost all city dwellers would have known the songs from the latest operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Over in Italy, the composers who followed Vivaldi were fixated on the lucrative but non-progressive business of Italian opera, both at home and abroad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Very soon, in any case, a new Italian sound was to dominate European music once again, leaving both the French opera and ballet styles in its wake. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Give it up for the one and only Brooke Breckenridge, everybody. You know what I like best about opera? When it’s over.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what people in soap operas get before they die young and still beautiful? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Werfel turned his attention back to the opera. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He was cloned from the bloodstains found on Lucy Todd Lincoln’s opera cloak. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Composers of operas used it to symbolize the underworld. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One evening Lourdes and her boyfriend are watching a soap opera on the living room television. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An opera singer. Allegedly from Germany. At present attached to the San Francisco Opera Company.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Milan there were six theatres in which opera was performed regularly; in Naples there were five plus one more occasional venue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at Dad, sitting on the couch watching soap operas with Laleh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

While she was in labor, she was watching The Young and the Restless, and so she named me Ashley after one of the soap opera characters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was quite a different sight a year later when Monteverdi’s new opera, Arianna, premiered. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the final opera of the four, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner made mayhem with the Icelandic concept of Ragnarok - the destruction of the gods as preordained by fate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Propped her feet on that table while she watched soap operas on that TV? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday during the winter, when the opera was broadcast, they would sit clustered around the radio in the newsstand, straining to hear the music above the din of the subway station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had long since left his opera singer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was just waiting for the next chapter in the Hickam family soap opera. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Berlioz’s temperament was, to be sure, suited to the fascinations of nineteenth-century opera - doomed love, death and destiny - even if it was not so well suited to the patient, collaborative process of putting on operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mama didn’t know the words to the operas, but she hummed some of the tunes along with him. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too young to study opera, but she heard something in my voice and took a chance, shifting me toward serious study. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that Wagner had learnt his trade writing pseudo- Italian operas, by the time he reached his maturity, he had moved decisively and deliberately away from an Italian style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the close of the opera, Scythe Faraday gave them a card and very clear instructions. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The previous Saturday, it had been a pregnant opera singer from Montreal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The opera that evening — sung, not acted, so as not to oflend the sensibilites of the town — was a Peruvian love story, an entree by Monsieur Rameau. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She commands the musicians to play and that Geneviève Gareau, the most beloved opera singer in the kingdom, be brought in to sing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A showy solo in an Italian opera might elicit spontaneous applause and even encores. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the ballet, in operas, on the concert stage, lilting, driving, whirling, tiptoeing, leaping, gliding, jumping, gyrating and twirling, Russian music can’t get enough of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Cameron, you startled me,” she said as if she was on a soap opera and had been caught rifling through someone else’s desk. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some­one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The story, spread over the four separate operas, begins with the theft of a precious Golden Ring from the depths of the River Rhine, which represents indomitable, deathless Germany. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing I know something about opera, Rick reflected. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t the opera, Daddy—why are you always so proper?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She sang an aria from Verdi’s opera Don Carlo along with four spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Of course, the opera, like everything else, totally failed to entertain the elf. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Bruckner’s third symphony of 1873 was dedicated to Wagner and in its first version contained melodic quotations from his idol’s operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1916 Satie concocted a baldly insulting parody of themes from Gounod’s opera Mireille, and several of his cabaret songs make fun of Massenet’s supposed sentimentality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He also owned a book that told the stories of all the great operas, which he’d dip into from time to time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a channel entirely in Spanish playing what is surely a sappy soap opera. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing that roused her was her daily lineup of soap operas. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The building in the trees with its ornate facade lit by floodlights might have been an opera house. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To date there have been over twenty film adaptations and it is the second-most- performed opera of all time, after Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Your friends sound like they belong on a soap opera,” Zack says. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s cheaper to import soap operas from Mexico,” Obiora said, his eyes still glued to the television. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Francie smiled happily, pleased at his using the nickname he had given her when, as a baby, he swore that her crying was as varied and as tuneful as an opera singer’s range. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her ‘charming novel’, and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found out from my youngest aunt that he had left me to live with an opera singer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plays the chief part in the Volsungasaga, the Norse version of the German tale which Wagner’s operas have made familiar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel sat furiously next to Brangwain Spurge, but he hardly heard the opera. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

There have been many reports of the Sorcerer’s Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The opera had not been heard in its entirety in public since 1651. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It’s like the most awful and sad opera, the strong music of his English, then her black English; her colorful, almost elevated, mocking of him, and his grim explosions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further material is drawn from the writings of the German painter Walter Spies and the American anthropologist Margaret Mead, who are injected into the opera as characters. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z

In Anna Nicole Smith, the opera’s creators tapped the ideal muse to inject a dose of reality television pizzazz and horror into an out-moded opera company. Buxom and Doomed: The Odd Marriage of Opera and Anna Nicole 2013-09-27T14:09:14Z

Along with nuts-and-bolts information about Met productions, Opera News, with a circulation of 100,000, features articles about singers and other opera houses, and includes reviews of recordings and performances from around the world. Metropolitan Opera Reverses Itself on Review Ban 2012-05-22T21:31:23Z

Which raises the question: Why is this opera now turning up in several American cities? Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z

It’s Yannick Nezet-Seguin, but he’s not the figure familiar to opera lovers on the podium of one of the world’s great concert halls. Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

One gentleman plays the piano softly, including snippets of “Falstaff” and tunes from other Verdi operas. Critic’s Notebook: Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-06T21:00:31Z

Christine Schwarzman, who will soon be standing atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art steps with her husband Stephen as one of the hosts of the Met Gala, wore white opera gloves. Melania Trump, at the State Dinner in Chanel, Gave Everyone Something to Chew On 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Still, the production that Seattle Opera will present later this month might well strike even the most seasoned fan as a freshly discovered Verdi opera. New take on old favorite: ‘La traviata’ at Seattle Opera 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gockley, who grew up in suburban Philadelphia, caught the opera bug as a child, when he heard leading singers performing arias on television programs such as “The Voice of Firestone.” David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Then again, if their fury required a sacrifice, few figures in this opera are more deserving than Jordan. What makes "Beef" so seductive? Understanding the intimacy of rage sheds light on that ending 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

By summer, however, the virus’s spread had ebbed enough for the creative team and cast — though not the chorus or orchestra — to rehearse the opera in something of a bubble residency. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

And the “special relationship” of Britain and the United States was translated into a two-character soap opera of sexual codependency in “Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?” Theater Review: ‘Love and Information,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Minetta Lane 2014-02-20T03:00:14Z

There’s demented opera in some of its scenes. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The novella and the opera do more than describe the closet, with its anxiety and coded messages; detached and diffident, they feel closeted themselves. Critic’s Notebook: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ Has the Gay Closet as Its Subtext 2012-07-03T21:36:04Z

There we were, four snotty kids from Shepherd’s Bush, saying to our audience, “This is a rock opera. Have a little respect.” The Who’s Roger Daltrey Is Not Nostalgic for Woodstock 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

In Turin, he will conduct eight weeks of programs per season, including tours, recordings, concert operas and choral works. James Conlon named principal conductor of Turin, Italy, orchestra 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In 1864, Wagner met King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who salvaged the composer’s struggling career and made possible the creation of his late operas, including the “Ring.” Review: In ‘Wagner’s “Ring”: Forging an Epic,’ Valkyries on Their First Flight 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Joyce’s enthusiasm for classical music, including opera, is relatively well-known, but less attention has been focused on Irish song being central to his writings, O’Rourke said. ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And also like soap operas, the characters have to be politically and socially relevant to make sense to the crowd. A wrestler called “The Progressive Liberal” is infuriating Appalachian crowds, but the sport is a mirror for politics throughout America 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

She was heard in the rebuilt opera house for the first time that Dec. 26 as Octavian in Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig dies at 94 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Led a dance … Malcolm Arnold was first told his Restoration-influenced comic opera was too bawdy, then that it was too serious. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z

Company XIV, the flirty collective created and directed by Austin McCormick, offers an adults-only interpretation of the tale and transfers it to a French dance hall, where opera flair blends with burlesque naughtiness. Dance Listings for Nov. 11-17 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

So that was it, Ming's brother was a star of Cantonese opera, an authentic celebrity in that rebarbative form. Top 10 books set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z

But resonance between the opera and recent world events goes only so far. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z

David Chase revolutionized television with his monumental mob opera led by James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, ushering in a new era of ambition on the small screen. Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

He attended the opera and haunted jazz clubs. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Like other singers who were eager to speak about pregnancy and motherhood in opera, Cooke asked me not to name the companies that canceled her contracts. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Now Ms. O’Day was herself singing in an opera that felt true to life. After Struggling With Homelessness, a Chorus Sings of Gratitude 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

On loan from the company, she made her New York City Opera debut in 1963 as Madame Flora, the title character of his two-act opera “The Medium.” Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

The "adventure" of so much situation causes music, without which there is no opera, to struggle for prominence. 'Hopscotch' moves around L.A. and sometimes transports 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The UK has impressive opera choruses and choral directors right now. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

At the Los Angeles Opera in April “Die Gezeichneten” became the first Schreker opera to receive a stage production in the Western hemisphere. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z

But while Mr. Domingo performs at the Met, staffs at two other important American opera companies are working away on their own, without the presence of their general director, Plácido Domingo. 2010-01-13T22:49:00Z

And to keep the Met as the mother ship of great opera in the world, and therefore great new opera. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Gregory Brothers first came to attention with their "auto-tune the news" series, where political debates and press conferences were transformed into miniature operas, thanks to pitch-shifting computer software. Youtube if you want to... 2011-02-16T02:52:54Z

When she was 9, she was invited by a cousin to her first opera: Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” in Bucharest. Virginia Zeani, Versatile and Durable Soprano, Dies at 97 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

It is time to reassess the opera, and the Met deserves thanks for championing it. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z

On a recent afternoon in Los Angeles, a mezzo-soprano paced during an opera rehearsal before letting her sound loose. An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mao is a figure from outside the opera establishment. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z

“This opera, to me, feels like a direct affront to that, so this is a vehicle for me to channel this incredible anger that I have toward Putin.” Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

Beneath the arched entry to the opera house, an electrician was installing wiring to make some of the heavy front doors touchless. The Met Opera Races to Reopen After Months of Pandemic Silence 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Like all performing arts, opera has gone though cyclical ups and downs. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

The chorus, hugely important in this opera, sang magnificently, and the orchestra played with sweep and majesty under music director Nicola Luisotti. SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers 2012-10-21T20:33:09Z

Opera looms large as a point of cultural pride, even if many cultural commentators say that the glory of Italian opera is a memory. Strikes Silence Italy?s Opera Houses 2010-05-04T23:05:00Z

Uncommonly versatile, his roles ranged from Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio to main characters in operas composed by Verdi, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. South African tenor Johan Botha dies at age 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

After opera singer Renee Fleming did her first selection early in the show, she requested a partner to accompany her on an excerpt from "Don Giovanni," and out came Sting. Bill Clinton jokes with Spacey at benefit concert 2014-04-18T22:37:17Z

Conductor Yves Abel and the orchestra coped admirably and expeditiously with Offenbach’s score, which ranges from frothy operetta to grand opera in style. ‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out on a high note 2014-05-05T16:26:58Z

In its dispassionate tone “R” is the opposite of a ludicrous S&M soap opera like the former HBO series “Oz.” | 'R': Life in the Big House: The Danish Experience 2011-06-16T23:36:42Z

It will be revealing to see the turnout in the spring for City Opera’s production of “Séance on a Wet Afternoon,” the first opera by another composer associated with Broadway, Stephen Schwartz. City Opera Faces Hard Times With Daring 2010-12-18T23:20:19Z

Home to the sweetness and light associated with Mozart, Salzburg on Sunday was in the grip of a darker and grimmer genre of opera. Strauss' Elektra at Salzburg darkly brilliant 2010-08-09T00:46:00Z

Nor was Kennedy moved by music or opera, or susceptible to the introspection offered by paintings or sculpture. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

“But the big majority today believes it was worth it, because a lot of people are able to go to the opera,” with more seats, and more diverse programming available. Does Paris Still Have the Ugliest Opera House in Europe? 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Frankfurt and Stuttgart are also planning major upgrades to their opera houses. Budget Blowouts and Delays Blight Germany’s Major Arts Projects 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Bringing our own experiences, building on the matrix of a classical opera,” Ms. Chiuri chimed in. Valentino and Sofia Coppola Make an Opera 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

But low ticket prices for opera, that astonishingly expensive art form, guaranteed that each production would operate at a loss. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Dubai, a tourist destination synonymous with shopping malls and luxury resorts, aims to add high culture to its attractions as it opens an opera house in the shadow of the world's tallest building. Opera house adds upmarket touch to Dubai's tourist appeal 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

And Spoleto USA has made the reconciliation official by presenting a Menotti opera, “The Medium,” for the first time since his departure. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z

And an Aix production of Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” shifted the plot to colonial East Africa under the rule of the Italian Fascists, giving the opera’s love games a brutal racial charge. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

A refugee after the Nazi annexation of Austria, Korngold had enjoyed a hugely successful career in Europe, in particular as an opera composer, before being invited to Hollywood to compose for the movies. Hollywood composer James Newton Howard unveils world premiere at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Summer Festival 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

“There are discussions happening about how to better allocate our resources as small companies doing opera.” Critic's Notebook: With City Opera?s Woes, Other Small Companies Step Up 2012-01-04T14:47:57Z

This affecting and original production by the director Stefan Herheim is sure to move the conversation forward in the opera world this summer, partly because of timing. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z

Mr. Rattle conducted the parallel orchestra chords that open the opera and the modal themes that slowly unfold with haunting serenity at a daringly slow tempo. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z

Here it offered five selections from Verdi operas, contrasting the rough-edged surroundings with vocal and visual glamour. Review: LoftOpera, Finding Glamour Amid the Gritty, Performs Verdi 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

More often than not, masculinity is the unspoken catalyst of the action in opera: the justification of brute force, the base of jealousy, the root of rage. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Like his other movies, “The Immigrant” is messy and glorious, a potboiler with the soul of a tragedy, a Dreiserian opera. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

And since 2014, the secular oratorio “Le Vin Herbé,” Martin’s pared down but poignant take on the Tristan legend, has been mounted by opera houses in Boston, Chicago and Long Beach, Calif. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

As the two stars collapse with laughter, I have visions of a sumptuous drag version of Bizet's opera, with Scholl and Jaroussky playing castanets and strutting about in flamenco dresses and fishnets. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z

That great singing and music come first in opera was made clear, however inadvertently, in April, when “Armida” opened two nights before the Bondy “Tosca” returned after six months with a new cast. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z

Described as a folk-blues opera, the show is apparently drawn from discussions with the dead, perhaps theoretical, perhaps actual, and draws upon Methodist and Roman Catholic hymns. The New Season of Theater: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

We can even play some excerpts symphonically in Philadelphia and then have the world premiere at the Met as a fully staged opera. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

At 41 Ms. DiDonato has been performing in recitals and concerts as well as in opera for just over a decade, generally to great acclaim. Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z

That scene is one of the most horrifying in opera, a grand climax in a work that, when performed at this level, makes any onerous safety protocol worthwhile. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Opera Rara reaches a quiet opera audience that is very loyal. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z

In operas by French composers she was again at her best, not least in Esclarmonde. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z

But in recent years his operas have begun to pass to a new generation, through the invaluable efforts of Mimi Johnson, his widow, and Tom Hamilton, a longtime colleague. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The festival bills it simply as an opera. A Prescient Sci-Fi ‘Parable’ Gets Set to Music 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Rossi, who had enjoyed a thriving, if tumultuous career in Rome, relocated to Paris, where, under the sponsorship of Cardinal Mazarin, he was tasked with introducing French audiences to Italian opera. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

The acclaimed production has duly been nominated for next week's Olivier awards, with Skelton himself up for the outstanding achievement in opera  category. Stuart Skelton: A Life of Grimes 2010-03-18T22:10:00Z

This year’s highlights include the composer Stefan Weisman’s chamber opera “The Scarlet Ibis,” with a libretto by David Cote, at Here in the South Village. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Just a year ago, the company announced that opera was no longer a viable art form in unsettled times. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

It's got to the stage now where it's like some high-camp, super-soap opera with conniving women running rings around clueless, effete men. TV highlights 30/07/2012 2012-07-29T21:00:01Z

Perhaps more than any other opera in the Met’s repertory, this story needs a makeover from a director unafraid to take a stance. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The opera world may be out of touch in some regards, but “Taragate,” alas, is right in tune with the times. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing

Oh, and did I mention her sous chef Brian — with whom she was supposed to spend six hours workshopping a chocolate hazelnut opera cake — had tested positive on a rapid Covid test that same day? The diary of a pastry cook with Covid-19 taste and smell loss 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

New productions of the opera Alban Berg left unfinished are always special events, and this one marks the real start of David Pountney's regime as Welsh National Opera's artistic director. 2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO 2012-12-30T20:22:01Z

Perhaps the strongest argument for opera in Europe is the variety of approaches. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

IN a 1985 interview with The New York Times Magazine, James Levine described the difficulty of maintaining opera as a living tradition. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

As a teenager working alongside him, I would cringe in embarrassment; I was avenged when I spat and sang my obscene parody of his beloved opera on national telly. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

Dana Walden, a chief executive of the Fox Television Group, said that “Pitch” is “at its core a soap opera, and we’re hoping to attract a big number of female viewers.” That Padres Pitcher in ‘Pitch,’ She’s Got a Mean Screwball 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who earned a Nobel for his peaceful opposition to apartheid, on Tuesday urged Cape Town's renowned opera troupe not to tour Israel until what he calls discrimination there ends. Tutu urges South African opera not to tour Israel 2010-10-26T14:08:00Z

Actually it was worn by a Polovtsian Warrior in the dances from the opera “Prince Igor,” the final and most sensationally galvanizing work of the company’s celebrated opening night in Paris. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z

Mr. Porter’s critical enthusiasms centered demonstrably on vocal music, and more demonstrably still on opera. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Yes, it offers two good chunks of opera — “Casta diva” from Bellini’s “Norma” and the Barcarolle from Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

At the same time, she says she will work to attract new audiences to opera. Francesca Zambello to direct National Opera in DC 2012-09-13T15:34:11Z

How does your stage experience, including costuming for Broadway and directing musicals and opera, connect to your design work? A Word With: Isaac Mizrahi, Dramaturge of the Runway 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

“The letter, how they miss each other, how they get to the tomb: Those don’t seem to be relevant in the opera.” A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

It is not easy to find new operas that command attention, tell their story lucidly and create a powerful, permeating mood. Review: ‘Breaking the Waves’ Lends Musical Heft to a von Trier Tale 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

A 15-year-old horse called Rupert is making his opera debut at the Royal Opera House, in a new production of Falstaff as part of the . VIDEO: Horse makes opera debut in Falstaff 2012-05-14T23:16:45Z

Ed Hall on the soap opera "One Life to Live." 'Malcolm X' actor Albert Freeman Jr. dies at 78 2012-08-11T23:31:07Z

Gluck’s opera begins with Orpheus grief-stricken at the death of his beloved, Eurydice. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

The latter plays a vital role in the opera's most disturbing scene, when the tormented Golaud lifts the boy up to Melisande's window and forces him to spy on her and Pelleas. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

We are left with a supercharged soap opera, a view of CIA work that is distant and incurious, and a portrait of a marriage that itself is insultingly shallow, cliched and unconvincing. Fair Game ? review 2011-03-10T15:00:00Z

But her story gets lost amid what comes across as a bold attempt to write the great California opera — a sweeping tale of the mad quest for fortune that was the mostly disastrous Gold Rush. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Photograph: David Farrell/Redferns When I first started listening to opera as a teenager, the Mozart recordings I had were Colin's. Sir Colin Davis remembered: 'He worked little miracles' 2013-04-15T18:13:39Z

Other events are to include a residency by the Handspring Puppet Company, an exhibition of Aboriginal art, a festival of film festivals and an opera by the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and the composer Phil Kline. ArtsBeat: Yo-Yo Ma and Alvin Ailey Part of Dartmouth's Culture Celebration 2012-06-29T16:46:32Z

I’ve also been studying the Brahms symphonies, and the Wagner operas — the “Ring,” “Tristan” — partly through the Met broadcasts. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

The following season, he is scheduled to lead two productions, including one of his own operas. Composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is tapped to join L.A. Opera as an artist in residence 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Be warned that song texts and opera librettos have to be downloaded from mozart225.com. Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

Besides, the main images produced by this historic journey turn out to inhabit only the first of the opera’s three acts. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

But it is in bringing orchestras, opera performances and top individual performers to the West that China is showing its real clout. China’s newest export hit is classical music 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The other three operas are considerably longer, but there are two intermissions in each. Countdown to Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’: 10 ways to get ready 2013-07-18T21:50:22Z

In opera, however, these wantons all finish redeemed. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z

No Verdi, except as part of an evening of excerpts exploring the ideological implications of the chorus in opera. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z

This was the first opera I saw live, at the Met in 1999, when I was 18. ‘Wozzeck,’ the 20th Century’s Most Influential Opera, Turns 100 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

You get ideas from reading Science Journal, a novel, or hearing an opera on the radio. Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z

She displayed a weakness for the kind of self-pitying, quasi-inspirational ballads that flourished in the early 1980s, when they were often shoehorned into daytime soap operas. Marieann Meringolo Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

This year Australia has raised the bar by elevating Kate and her backing dancers on giant wobbly poles for a pop/opera/EDM performance with a difference. Eurovision: the ones to watch in grand final of 2019 song contest 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

These are performances that die-hard fans of the opera will want to hear. Giordano: Andrea Ch?nier 2010-08-12T21:30:00Z

It’s called “White Girl in Danger,” and it’s a race-conscious sendup of the soap opera genre. New Musical From ‘Strange Loop’ Writer to Run Off Broadway 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Her work in Act III, the emotional core of the opera, was exceptionally fine. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

"It's the emotion, the passion, and I'm writing an opera myself so I have to say that." Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones too busy writing an opera for reunion 2013-06-10T09:47:39Z

But in the spring Mr. Steel presented a pair of contemporary opera productions aimed, it seemed, at opposing camps of patrons. Critic?s Notebook: Move From Lincoln Center Could Fortify City Opera?s Identity 2011-05-22T17:13:34Z

But people who want to see Renee Fleming in the operas that made her "America's sweetheart" better hurry. Soprano Renee Fleming at 55: 'I may leave well enough alone' 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

In recent years, many Italian opera houses have been better known for financial, managerial and labor tumult than for their way with bel canto or verismo. Turin Opera’s Music Director Threatens to Leave 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Not that history matters in opera, but if we are to have black countertenors for this role, they need reason to learn it, and that means “Akhnaten,” like “Aida,” must first enter the repertory. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps opera houses need to ask themselves how much they are feeding the beast. Debate: have modern opera singers got the wrong attitude? 2013-03-16T18:00:02Z

He’s appeared in plays, novels and a Richard Strauss tone poem that was later adapted into an opera. Review | Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Tyll’ — a future Netflix series — follows a German jester navigating war-torn chaos 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

But should it matter what an opera singer looks like if her voice is a superlative instrument? Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

None of this would automatically disqualify “Nebuchadnezzar” as opera: There are wordless operas, spoken operas, unclear operas. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

All the works had in common was that none, as so many American opera companies now seem to want, had a Hollywood movie tie-in. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

He even considered bringing a cellist to his studio to play while he painted or having schoolchildren re-create scenes from the opera so, he says, “I could see what I’d gotten myself into.” Perspective | This legendary street artist has done walls, shoes and Bieber albums. Now he’s trying opera. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The man who helped to originate conceptual staging, with his historically displaced productions of “Macbeth” and “Julius Caesar,” felt that such radical transpositions had no place in opera. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

The opera skips lightly over this vast span, touching on her early work in Melrose Plantation’s cotton fields and the beginnings of her painting career, encouraged by the plantation’s artistically minded owner. Music Review: ‘Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter,’ by Robert Wilson 2013-01-27T23:01:31Z

Pianist Stephen Hough once cited the narrative quality of the four Ballades, calling them "operas in miniature." Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The productions are ornately stolid: far more traditional visually than the Met’s current version of either opera. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z

The opera will show on area screens Saturday, March 1, and Wednesday, March 5. A weekend of Oscar best-picture marathons and parties 2014-02-27T22:39:30Z

A medley of styles is the piece’s hallmark, but young opera singers these days tend to be trained to sing one way only, a monochrome approach. Review | Looking for the District’s orchestra highlight? Go to Maryland. 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The work, completed in 2008, was originally created as a film opera, but in this performance, the video component was omitted. Music Review: A Loud, Movable Birthday Festival for Louis Andriessen 2014-04-07T21:42:16Z

A documentary, a coffee-table book, an international tour and an opera partnership will be some of the many homages to the Martha Graham Dance Company as it celebrates its 100th anniversary, starting this fall. A Multi-Season Celebration of the Martha Graham Company at 100 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

When they sing such sentiments in opera, however, we freak out. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Scrims, an easy way to suggest murky atmosphere, are too often resorted to in opera productions. Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Returns, Brighter and Better 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

An education on Richard Wagner, Germany's most famous opera composer who based himself in Bayreuth, would also be helpful. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

The French baroque suddenly seems to be fashionable, and Glyndebourne gets in on the trend with its first production of a Rameau opera, conducted by the peerless William Christie. The best classical concerts and operas for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:30:01Z

As in his earlier operas, Mr. Sciarrino writes here in a compositional language that has been aptly described as aphoristic. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

With his charges now opened to the craft and beauty of opera, he also sets his sights on inspiring another group of people: their mums. Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne 2010-07-01T07:00:00Z

But anyone who appreciates theater, opera, ballet, modern dance or museums will find “Curtains?” fairly depressing, despite a glimmer of hope in the final chapter. Can arts organizations survive in the current economy? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The composer wrote "Ghosts" with librettist William Hoffman as a Met commission to mark the organization's 100th anniversary, and it remains his only opera. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The future of opera depends on companies commissioning lots of composers to write new ones. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

So what was your feeling when an ‘Angels’ opera was proposed? Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

The Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians confirmed on Monday that it has reached a tentative agreement with opera management. Metropolitan Opera reaches tentative agreement with biggest unions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Composed in 1741 when Handel was 56 and shaken by the box-office failures of his most recent operas and oratorios, the “Messiah” emerged in the space of 24 inspired days. Seattle Symphony audiences have never heard a ‘Messiah’ production quite like this season’s 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

When it comes to the opera, almost anything but the most casual wear is considered appropriate. How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

Born in Oslo, Mr. Herheim, 48, practically has opera in his blood. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

The plot line may not always be easy to follow in this house’s ongoing soap opera. Zegna Turns Jackets Into a World View 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

But through them all, Floyd stayed stubbornly true to himself and his vision: creating operas with clear, strong narratives — often about intolerance and social outcasts — and scores grounded in tonality. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

There's newly commissioned dance at the city's opera house and, across town, builders are finishing off an £170m football stadium for next year's European Championship. Shakespeare: Stratford. London. Gda?sk? 2011-04-04T20:46:01Z

No original version of this work survives; operas from this period were presented in versions that catered to the casts and circumstances of each production. Music Review: Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

Strikingly, graduates of two of our leading TV soap operas – EastEnders and Casualty – are packing their tuxedos for the ceremony this Sunday. British directors: from TV drama to Hollywood 2011-02-23T21:31:00Z

Powell described something similar when he wrote of crowds in the square moving "rhythmically backwards and forwards like the huge chorus of an opera". Trip Tips: Reading between the lines in Venice 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Birmingham Opera Company's latest site-specific project is a specially commissioned opera by Jonathan Dove, based upon Calderon's play. This week's cultural highlights: The Recruiting Officer and Picasso 2012-02-12T17:51:27Z

There’s this buildup, and that text is cut up and put together and the new text is delivered with music and that new text is an opera libretto. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

The opera in question was Wagner's Tannhäuser, which lasts several hours, has a tortuous plot, a misty Middle Ages setting and a tragic end. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Here are some of the best programs for promotions and discounted tickets to live music, dance, theater, opera, and comedy around the city. How to navigate the Seattle art world on a budget 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

All of the sets were constructed by us and are not a part of the opera house. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

With 3,800 seats and 200 standing-room places, the Met is far bigger than most European houses, and it gave 225 opera performances this season, more than almost all of its peers. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Kunqu opera, after all, is one of the most venerated forms of traditional Chinese theater, and for hundreds of years it flourished near Shanghai, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Delta. ?The Peony Pavilion? Gets Modern Touches in China 2010-08-17T22:56:00Z

The Prague Spring lineup includes a trio of classical opera performances as well. In Transit Blog: This Prague Spring Features Music 2012-05-12T00:00:48Z

“There was always opera on the jukebox, and I remember the drinks being better than they actually were,” Friedman said. | A Second Act for a Legendary San Francisco Watering Hole 2013-08-14T13:00:51Z

Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production emerges for yet another run, despite continuing critical concern about the problematic way it deals with a problematic opera. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

But rather that Arts Centre Melbourne has more than 510,000 other objects relating to dance, theatre, circus and opera in its cavernous vaults, never seen by the public. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z

Some opera fans find the Charlotte of de los Angeles the drawback of this recording, since Massenet wrote the role for a mezzo-soprano. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

And, as I've mentioned before, if we wanted to give every schoolchild the chance to go to the opera once a year, we'd need to build 22 more opera houses. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director renowned for his extravagantly romantic opera productions, popular film versions of Shakespeare and supercharged social life, died on Saturday at his home in Rome. Franco Zeffirelli, Italian Director With Taste for Excess, Dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

They sing music from the worlds of opera, operetta, Broadway musicals and Danish, Swedish and Icelandic folk songs, often in lighthearted, humorous fashion. The Week Ahead: 'Please Give,' Jewel, Nordic Singers are arts highlights 2010-06-16T23:32:00Z

Mr. Bartoletti, who rarely strayed from the opera podium to conduct symphonic works, was not known to be especially peripatetic. Bruno Bartoletti, Maestro Who Shaped Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dies at 86 2013-06-14T02:00:47Z

And backstage at an opera, that division couldn't be more stark. Opera dressers: quick, my hot towels! 2013-04-23T17:03:00Z

Mr. Liotta, then 30, had a recurring part on the soap opera “Another World.” Something Genre Crossing, Something Bold 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z

While he hopes to add more operas to his Met repertory, he said, he is still testing his stamina in returning to his full workload. James Levine Leads His 2,500th Met Performance Saturday 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

The opera announced Tuesday night that it expects a shortfall of $1 million for the 2011-12 season, and cuts are on the way for staff, salaries and future programming. Seattle Opera announces shortfall, cutbacks in future seasons 2012-06-27T04:05:04Z

“It’s hard for people to understand what rock stars opera singers were 100 years ago,” White said. When opera singers were media stars (and when Instagram wasn't a thing) 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

"You've got to be there, proseltyising, evangelising on behalf of this place and on behalf of opera and ballet more generally." New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z

The broad strokes and bald statements don’t recede, exactly, but they’re like the manipulations of a Puccini opera, so skillful that it seems churlish to object. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

"At least, I won a lot of people over to opera." Mezzo-soprano opera star Rise Stevens dies at 99 2013-03-21T21:20:11Z

And Victoria Rowell spoofs the soap opera industry she knows only too well in “The Rich and the Ruthless.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

She was the sophisticate who once fingered Alice at the opera. From Gentleman Jack to Killing Eve: who are TV's greatest lesbian icons? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Highlighting its lessons makes the opera seem didactic, while Brecht and Weill’s essential masterpiece is anything but. Music Review: ‘Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’ at Manhattan School 2013-04-25T21:26:01Z

Both Zeitoper and “the whisper opera” elevate the mundanely modern to the exalted sphere of opera. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

And one opera reinforces the concept that the festival is international. Largest Spoleto season to unfold next week in SC 2013-05-18T15:34:09Z

First, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in the summer, “The Force of Things,” her glacial, scary “opera for objects,” used harrowing softness — even inaudibility — to evoke the permeating anxiety of our mounting ecological crisis. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Co-produced with San Francisco, Washington National, and Minnesota Operas, this classic opera about passion, jealousy, and war is visually and musically spectacular. Seattle Opera presents a spectacular “Aida” 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

The series was introduced last year to a U.S. audience of Anglophiles parched for a refreshment of costume-heavy British soap opera. Pass the tea and the remote: It's party time for 'Downton Abbey' 2012-01-20T02:19:11Z

In fact, my favourite ever New York weekend was when I saw four operas in two days – only in New York! Concierge Dwight Owsley on New York City 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Waiting to Exhale is basically the equivalent to eating an entire Haagen Dazs tub of ice-cream while watching the greatest daytime soap opera of all time – and it is tremendously addictive. Comfort films to watch while self-isolating – ranked! 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

China has screened the original Star Wars movies for the first time almost four decades after George Lucas’s space opera helped usher in the Hollywood blockbuster era. Star Wars premieres in China four decades late 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The polonaise sounds characteristically stirring as conducted by Mariss Jansons in the Netherlands Opera’s new production, which marks the welcome return of the eminent conductor to an opera house. Opera Review: Traveling Through Time With 'Eugene Onegin' 2011-06-28T12:00:06Z

“The opera avoids problems of the play,” he said in a recent interview. A New Take on Romeo and Juliet’s Ball, Balcony, Bed and Tomb 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Like many opera companies in the U.S., the Met has been struggling with graying audiences, soft donations and dwindling public interest in the art form. Metropolitan Opera reaches tentative agreement with biggest unions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

But, from very early on in life, my parents took me to see Peking, Cantonese and Shanghai opera. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z

“Battlestar Galactica,” after 9/11, turned a breezy 1970s space opera into an ambitious story about politics, religion and the ethics of survival in the face of an existential threat. This Fall, Everything Old Is TV Again 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

I became a cartoon character, a soap opera character. Charlotte Church looking past phone hacking case 2012-02-27T16:32:13Z

Why opera as a vehicle for telling this story? David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z

The opera also announced plans for next season. NYC Opera to leave Lincoln Center, cut staff 2011-05-21T00:11:08Z

It was refreshing to hear a contemporary opera composer venture outside the now-standard neo-Romantic vocal line, but the result was pretty docile. Review | Small opera plus big ideas make, this weekend, for a misfit 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the news, as it should be, is Vivaldi’s great opera. Music Review: One Cruel King, by Way of Vivaldi 2011-08-10T22:00:40Z

The 2012-23 program announced Friday comprises 15 operas and six ballets. La Scala to open 2012-13 season with 'Lohengrin' 2012-04-20T13:11:09Z

The opera opens with a prelude depicting the hopeless despair of the oppressed Hebrews. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

The stagehands of old opera houses in towns like Galveston and Lexington would boast that Harry Houdini had performed there. John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

The climax of the opera comes with Orfeo’s hypnotic song when he attempts to placate Charon, the boatman at the river to the underworld, and pleads for permission to cross. Review: An Inspiring End to a 6-Month Tour of Monteverdi’s Operas 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Salome” is unique among operas in that it incorporates a lengthy and physically demanding dance. The most fearless woman in opera? Patricia Racette on coming out, Trump, nudity and the demands of 'Salome' 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Throughout the U.S., women hold about 44% of top leadership positions at opera companies, according to research by Opera America. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

A festival in which opera offerings consist entirely of new productions is among Mr. Pereira’s innovations, as he outlined recently in an interview at Salzburg’s Hotel Sacher. Music: New Director of Salzburg Festival Plans an Adventurous Course 2011-08-31T11:00:06Z

Christian Curnyn, a Baroque opera specialist, made an impressive house debut in the pit, leading a buoyant, tightly wrought and colorful interpretation. Music Review | 'Partenope': Gender-Bending ?Partenope? at City Opera 2010-04-04T22:12:00Z

The more time he spent at Green-Wood, the more he became sure that the opera would benefit from the setting. Is Opera Dying? No, But This One Is Staged Among the Dead 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This adaptation aims to help change perceptions about Black identity and attract new audiences to opera at a time when the art form faces serious financial pressures and questions about its future. ‘The Snowy Day,’ a Children’s Classic, Becomes an Opera 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

After he led his first opera as music director, a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” Anthony Tommasini wrote in the Times, “I expected his ‘Traviata’ to be good, but not this good.” The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Miller’s 2006 production sets the opera in and around a roadside diner in the 1950s American Southwest; Adina, a local landowner in the original, is the proprietor. Music Review: Two Debuts at a Diner That Specializes in Donizetti?s Secret Sauce 2011-03-23T21:29:23Z

So why go where no opera company has gone before? Captain Kirk, Klingons and an aria: How the Pacific Opera Project remade Mozart, 'Star Trek'-style 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Sometimes Mr. Decker goes too far in exposing what he sees as the subtext of the opera. Opera Review: A Modern ?Traviata,? Where Time Keeps Ticking 2011-01-02T17:15:26Z

The current debate is the latest episode in a story so dramatic and colourful it could inspire a book, a feature film or an opera. Can Foster and Acosta rescue Cuba's lost temple to ballet? 2012-11-25T00:05:43Z

In turn, Gelb has argued that the opera needs to bring expenses under control, including cuts in compensation. Metropolitan Opera reaches tentative agreement with biggest unions 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

This side of opera keeps growing in sophistication. It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Choreography on Opera Stages 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Washington National Opera will present the four operas of the “Ring” cycle — “The Rhinegold,” “The Valkyrie,” “Siegfried” and “Twilight of the Gods” — three times between April 30 and May 22. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

And that's almost the best thing that can happen to a new opera. Turning Under Milk Wood into an opera 2014-04-04T07:15:10Z

The second section, "Earth," opens with the sounds of a Hong Kong street opera company, a captivating tape made by Tan of a dying tradition. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

In the opera house, the gesture becomes a radically enhanced and potentially dangerous èpater le bourgeois. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

She helped revitalize an entire repertory of early-19th-century Italian opera of the bel canto school. Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

Asked what kind of audience opera gets in South Africa, Maswanganyi doesn't hide her desire for more diversity. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z

That contest got some added spice before "Porgy" even made it to Broadway when word came that the four-hour opera was to be condensed and the characters deepened. Tony Awards show not skimping on razzle-dazzle 2012-06-10T15:16:03Z

But Mr. Adès’s three-act opera, which lasted two and a half hours, including one intermission, is fired by the composer’s determination to expose what he sees as the deteriorating psyches of these privileged people. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

The bad guys win in this cynical opera. Music Review: Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

It was performed in honor of the 50th anniversary of the opera, which Toscanini conducted at its premiere in Turin. Met?s Archive Yields Past Treasures 2011-03-25T14:26:04Z

“I’m not a baritone,” Villazón said, noting that Mozart wrote the part for Emanuel Schikaneder, the “Flute” librettist, who was a famed actor and impresario but far from a traditional opera singer. A Tenor’s Met Career Seemed Over. Not So Fast. 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Lyric now gives a quarter fewer main stage opera performances than it did two decades ago — it gave 60 last season — and has started presenting a musical each spring. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

No production, including this one, manages completely to resolve the stylistic tensions built into “Candide,” which hovers between opera and musical theater, and strives to be satirical masque and cautionary tale. Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

The central character in each opera is Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the subject of each opera is human sacrifice. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z

Even in its earliest form, opera embraced innovation, the balance between wondrous music and technical ingenuity being an abiding feature. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

But in a piece where the words matter even more than for most operas, the Engelhard Court was a problematic choice. Review: An Opera of Suffrage Gets Lost in the Museum 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Shorts may, by nature, shorten the opera experience; and every stream reduces the real to a procession of bits that will never live up to the real thing. Perspective | If classical music keeps one thing from the pandemic, let it be the opera short 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The year 1813 was a good one for opera, with Richard Wagner born then too, so the Met is also tying the season to him. Metropolitan Opera Announces 2012-13 Lineup 2012-02-23T22:13:11Z

It recalls nothing so much as the shrewdly theatrical midcentury noir opera hits of Gian Carlo Menotti, including, of course, “The Medium.” Spring Performance: Music : Donizetti and Schwartz Fill Out Opera Program 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z

It resembles the entr'actes he called knee plays in his first great international success, the 1976 opera "Einstein on the Beach," which he created with composer Philip Glass. Baryshnikov sings, Dafoe dances in avant-garde 'Old Woman' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

Space was found in the opera house; and in January the students and staff moved en masse on a special tram ride, shown on the evening news. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Breaking not just the imaginary fourth wall, but out of conventional theaters altogether, is nothing new for opera. Brooklyn’s Unconventional LoftOpera Takes on Puccini 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

And in its best moments, the work gives you what Bernstein described on TV: the ability to make you feel the emotions he had when he was writing an at times painfully personal opera. Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

In opera — an art form that, more than any other, requires a suspension of disbelief — only the singing should ultimately matter. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Cambridge: I wonder about the greater issues, in general, of casting opera. The rarity of black faces, not ‘Otello’ in blackface, should be issue in opera 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

His debut opera Holy Blood and Crescent Moon – which, he claimed, tried to recreate the scale and power of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde – was first performed 22 years ago. Monty Python's Terry Jones sinks his teeth into canine opera 2011-04-08T21:00:01Z

The move is intended to stabilize the opera company, which in recent years has reduced its season and borrowed against its endowment. ArtsBeat: Washington National Opera and the Kennedy Center Agree to Merge 2011-01-20T15:01:36Z

“Porgy and Bess” is considered by many to be America’s greatest opera; it is surely a historic one. Arts & Leisure: It Ain?t Necessarily ?Porgy? 2011-08-05T15:00:00Z

I'll leave it to statisticians to calculate how many lifetimes it would take to watch all the opera clips on YouTube. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

And when all the elements lined up, one could spot opera’s omnivorous glory: high and low, refined and gaudy, grand and goofy, in shameless complementarity. Review | ‘Samson and Delilah’ has old-school opera style and strengths 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Munich plays host not only to one of the best opera houses in the world, but also to one of the best orchestras: the Bavarian Radio Symphony. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Through his writings, and his administration of major opera companies and music festivals, Lord Harewood was considered significant in broadening the reach of opera in Britain. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z

“I think in a funny way the issues of ‘Satyagraha’ are in this opera,” he says. The war that would not end: Race relations take the opera stage 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

With a poetic, often enigmatic libretto by Alice Goodman, the work is consciously modeled on the Bach Passions, with Bach’s Evangelist metamorphosed into the opera’s nameless Captain, helplessly recalling the loss of his ship. ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But after various unsuccessful attempts to turn it into a real opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic finally and triumphantly did so with the work’s first professional production Tuesday night in Walt Disney Concert Hall. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

And the rare opportunity to hear the opera’s full ballet music was marred by forgettable, seething choreography. At the Opera, Humans Bear Witness to Atrocity, or Ignore It 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

The Milan opera house on Friday announced the program for the 2011-2012 season that includes 13 operas - seven of those new productions - and seven ballets, two of which will be new productions. La Scala to open season with "Don Giovanni" 2011-04-15T12:46:09Z

Anthony Tommasini, reviewing the premiere in The Times, called it “an important opera, the rare philosophical work that holds the stage and gives singing actors real characters to grapple with.” Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

With the opera audience skewing older — the average age in a recent season was 57 — it remains to be seen whether operagoers will return in large numbers with the Delta variant still a concern. A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Kennedy Center officials heard many complaints about the sound in the hall, a 2,300-seat venue designed for opera voices that aren’t amplified. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“There are some Asian Americans who will never want to come anywhere close to this opera, even if it has a black Butterfly and Latino Pinkerton, because it’s so problematic.” Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The symphony and opera calculated that their fundraising dollars are better used on streamlined on-site galas — beautiful parties, but nothing like an old-fashioned ball. Ballgowns, tuxedos, champagne: The last real ball in Washington is a relic of the past 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Little is an inventive and prolific young opera composer. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

But opera is meant to have spectacle, and so I did listen very carefully to the music without knowing too much about it in a technical sense. The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth 2010-08-02T20:30:00Z

Urban Arias, a scrappy assemblage founded six years ago by conductor Robert Wood, specializes in small-scale 21st-century American operas. From Urban Arias, an intimately composed look at a mind unraveled 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

It is rare for opera singers to try out new parts at the Met — and even rarer for them to take that risk in a major new production. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

At the time she was a soap opera star and rising Bollywood actress. Field Notes: Parental Involvement Can Help in Choosing Marriage Partners, Experts Say 2013-01-18T21:31:10Z

Created by Ashton in 1946 as his first work for the Covent Garden opera house, today “Symphonic Variations” is danced all around the world. ‘Symphonic Variations’: A Frederick Ashton Classic Returns 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The opera was written as a vehicle for Maria Callas's comeback as a mezzo soprano in 1964, which never happened, and has never been performed in its entirety. Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z

The festival, which runs until 2 September, will include performances of dance, opera, music and theatre. Festival begins at Speed of Light 2012-08-09T08:44:08Z

If shifting the opera’s setting from Renaissance Italy to 1920s Berlin was not entirely convincing, this was still a detailed, dramatic staging, full of insights into the characters. Review: Amid Omicron, the Met Opera Opens a Weimar ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

This inventive and searing opera could not have been more relevant in an America riven by issues of race, war and bullying. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, because of associations between Wagner and the Nazi regime, the very vocabulary of post-Wagnerian opera may appear to be implicated in the genocide. Alex Ross: Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Staging opera in alternate venues is now fairly common, although Porta Potties are not usually part of the equation. At LoftOpera’s ‘Tosca,’ Go for the Arias, Not the Express to Albany 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

The debate over the use of opera elements in the bikini show began on China's active social media, but state media soon chimed in with equally split opinions. Blend of bikinis and Chinese opera stirs debate 2012-09-27T10:34:08Z

In the score, Picker gives Sacks a musical analogue: the note A, which the opera opens with in octaves, before being propelled by an ostinato. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Still, it will not do to criticize an opera simply because it fails to measure up to its source-work in certain details. Review: Great Expectations for a New Opera, Dashed 2010-09-16T03:00:00Z

Despite his renown in opera and symphony circles, Brainerd half-jokingly says he is considering writing a memoir called "The Most Unlikely Candidate." A distinctive voice: Everett's Clayton Brainerd adds to SSO's Beethoven concert 2010-12-30T20:36:03Z

The next steps in the paternal master plan included the composition of “Don Sanche,” an opera that was supposed to set the seal on the boy’s Mozartean image. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

In October, the Flemish Ministry of Culture announced that the ballet company would merge with the Flemish opera, with both under a state-appointed administrator, or Intendant, who would manage the single organization. Dance: Tough Passage for Flemish Ballet Troupe 2011-03-14T12:00:06Z

An opera about a visionary artist, “The Perfect American” is ultimately an opera about art, about the separation of art from the artifice of fame. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Then we see an opera house, the audience arriving, musicians warming up. Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Bad Boy, Has a Change of Heart 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“That’s not the Met Opera,” said James J. Claffey Jr., president of Local One of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents Met stagehands, pointing over to the opera house. ‘We Are the Met’: Opera Unions Rally Against Proposed Pay Cuts 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Even so, he did reconsider the aria, though he left its redrafting until after he'd reached the end of the opera. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z

She went on to star in the great opera houses of London, Paris and Vienna. Billy Joel, 4 others receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-12-09T06:46:09Z

I walked 50 yards to the open square in front of the Vienna State Opera — arguably the greatest opera house in Europe. Rick Steves gets lost in the music and grandeur of Vienna 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Last month, a crowd demonstrating against the opera jeered operagoers in evening dress as they made their way into the Met's season gala opening, and the opera company has scrapped plans to broadcast "Klinghoffer" internationally. New York's Met Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' protests 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Since you can probably catch somewhere around the world any time of the year, it is perverse to think of it as a seasonal opera. La bohème; Koyaanisqatsi/Britten Sinfonia; Der fliegende Holländer – review 2012-12-23T00:09:28Z

“We were looking for someone with theater and opera experience, but who specializes in cutting-edge contemporary dance,” the producers said in the statement. ArtsBeat: A New Choreographer for 'Spider-Man' 2011-03-24T23:15:05Z

“Welcome II the Terrordome,” which acknowledges a Public Enemy opus in its title, is a ferocious rap opera set in a dystopian Bantustan and using a call for revolution delivered by Malcolm X. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

No opera is harder to start at the Bowl than "Traviata." Substitutes shine in 'Traviata' at the Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

And at Rice University, a leading research institution in Houston, classical singing students will benefit from an anonymous gift that spurred the design of a new opera theater by Diller, Scofidio & Renfro. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“I was an acting opera singer, and that’s one of the reasons I left opera,” he said. George Gaynes, a Versatile Character Actor, Dies at 98 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Washington Post called “Blue” “the best new opera that barely anyone saw.” ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the new opera is mercifully free of assumed dialect or folksy musical Americana. Snakes on a stage: Opera focuses on a Pentecostal pastor 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

A small number of opera houses and concert halls around the world have introduced sound enhancement systems, sometimes openly, sometimes stealthily. Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z

This is Gelb's moment to promote opera, not let the art form be bullied by politicians, special interest groups or anyone else. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The resulting opera looks back, not forward — and thus, while telling Wright’s story, doesn’t achieve Wright’s pathbreaking status. Review | The Wright stuff: Avant-garde architect as subject of traditional opera 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

Yes, the opera is daunting, with high-flown lines that push vocalists to extremes and rich instrumental writing suited to the finest of orchestras. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z

Philidor, who hailed from a distinguished family of French musicians, was probably at least as well known in his day as a master chess player as he was a successful composer of comic operas. Review | Chamber quartet dips into pleasingly unknown territory 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

The opera presents different episodes of his life, each separated by the bell sounding a new round. ArtsBeat: A Deadly Night in the Boxing Ring Is Grist for an Evening at the Opera 2012-05-16T21:21:59Z

Mr. Neef has been admired for making Toronto into an international opera destination, cultivating top singers and more ambitious productions. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The popularity of supertitles has sidelined the honored tradition of performing opera in translation. Review: Gifted Singers and an English Translation Enhance a Janacek Opera 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

She ridiculed coy women who blush “when subjects are spoken of which are of the greatest interest to humanity generally” but “appear at balls and receptions and at the opera virtually naked to the waist.” Mike Huckabee’s worst nightmare: Meet the radical sisters who revolutionized 19th century America 2014-03-09T15:00:00Z

But any opera rests and falls on the music, and the principals did not let him down. Strauss' 'Ariadne,' Puccini's 'Boheme' both please 2012-08-06T23:01:05Z

The fruit of her labor, reviewers agreed, was a forthright portrait of a complex personality, set against the background of his renown as the composer of “Rigoletto,” “Aida,” “Otello” and other operas. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Biographer of Verdi and Puccini, Dies at 86 2013-01-27T03:13:09Z

Brad, who has a child, and Des have an awkward dinner date, and not just because it looks like was shot on the set of a 1980s soap opera. The Bachelorette Watch: Mr. Jersey Shore 2013-06-18T03:06:04Z

Alexander Smalls, the opera singer in Harlem, wrote the cookbook Between Harlem and Heaven, which received a James Beard Award. Lazarus Lynch find success by following his authentic truth: "A show is not the end game for me" 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

That’s what he wanted — a classical career, with symphonies, opera and ballet. Jon Kalbfleisch tunes up ‘A Little Night Music’ 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Gelb, who is Jewish, has publicly said he does not believe the opera to be anti-Semitic. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

He opened last year’s competition by saying, “There’s hip-hop, there’s opera, there’s pop, there’s dirge.” Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The opera will now perform in a variety of locations around the city. Irwin Schneiderman, Philanthropic Guide for City Opera, Dies at 88 2011-11-17T04:15:06Z

The pulse beats awfully slowly in this long-awaited full staging of Vaughan Williams' musically magnificent opera, writes Andrew Clements This week's bestsellers 1.  The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

More history-making is the fact that “Fire,” with a score by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, will be the first opera by a Black musician presented at the Met in its 138 years. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

I learned about death and disappearing from the soap operas my grandmother watched as she browned onions in the kitchen. All the ways I killed off my dad 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

There have been opera performances of late in grocery stores and banks as well as at a wax museum in New York and Union Station in Los Angeles. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The opera, which was written in the 17th century, was not performed until the 1990s. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The production continues Seattle Opera’s trend of using its chamber operas to tell more inclusive stories. Seattle Opera’s new production tells the stories of soldiers — and features a chorus of local veterans 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Ostensibly, the sketch is a clip from an obscure Canadian soap opera called "Jacob's Patience." Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels do the fake arm thing with Jimmy Fallon 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

“In many ways, the opera world is a mysterious, other world and it’s quite difficult to get access to,” the composer Anna Clyne said in a recent interview. To Help Women in Opera, Several Institutions Arise 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mystery could also be at the core of Britten’s history in France, a country long known for its love of romantic opera. A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera recently announced that it would be mounting a pastiche opera next season, but Opera Feroce proudly wants you to know it beat the big guys to the punch. | Oct. 17 ? 23 2010-10-15T16:51:00Z

Among the many dramatizations of "The Scarlet Letter" are silent films, an opera, a rock musical, ballets. Seattle's Intiman Theatre premieres a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Letter' 2010-10-20T23:20:00Z

Aspiring opera singers gather each fall for district auditions, part of the Metropolitan Opera’s national audition program. 4 things to do this weekend for classical fans 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The opera’s two acts are organized into 10 scenes — Mr. Harbison also wrote the libretto — that pass politely through most of the novel’s major plot points and classic lines. Music Review: John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Opera at Tanglewood 2013-07-14T19:50:12Z

In the first half, the Philharmonic, led by the guest conductor Andrey Boreyko, will perform the Polonaise from ’s opera “Eugene Onegin,” the Symphonic Dances from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” and Ravel’s “Boléro.” Shanghai Symphony and Philharmonic to Play Great Lawn 2010-07-12T22:15:00Z

The opera’s different registers — parodic, lyrical, noisy, and deeply felt — cohere in a way that, Mr. Aucoin feels, is “much more of a piece.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, made headlines last week when he said that Italy’s 14 publicly financed opera houses were “too many” to handle. Riccardo Muti’s Departure Is a Sign of Rome Opera’s Troubles 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Pop acts from the United States like Sufjan Stevens and TV on the Radio will appear at the city’s opera house for performances, as will Daniel Johns of Australia. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

It went on to become one of the most frequently performed American operas, and Susannah became the character with which Ms. Curtin was most closely identified. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

In the opera, that transformation is portrayed with a gesture: Maswanganyi as Madikizela-Mandela rejects a hand outstretched in reconciliation, and raises her fist. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z

The Pet Shop Boys have performed there, and the company recently struck a deal to make the opera house the Chicago home of the Joffrey Ballet, beginning in 2020. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

But there also frustrations, whether because of time conflicts — catching this opera may mean missing that concert — or shortness of stay. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

The day after the U.S. election, I felt, who needs a new opera? Nico Muhly on His New Opera and Women’s ‘Pressurized’ Lives 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

The interconnected series of “Trillium” operas place him in the lineage of Wagner and Stockhausen. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

This William Christie-led period-instrument group often performs Baroque opera when it passes through New York, but here, in a program titled “Music for Marie Antoinette,” the ensemble makes a welcome digression into later music. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And once a long time ago you wrote a column about being a corpse in an opera. Q&A: Humorist Dave Barry 2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

This year his first offering is one of Donizetti’s grand operas for the Paris Opera, heard in its original French rather than the more popular Italian version. Classical & Opera Listings for July 10-16 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

His craftsmanship as a story teller was such that he had a plethora of work that made up his magna opera. Chinua Achebe peered deep into the Nigerian psyche 2013-03-22T16:43:31Z

The English National Opera should appoint a new artistic director with experience in the opera world, as this was missing from the company’s leadership team, Mr. Allison said. Daniel Kramer Quits at English National Opera 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

I would never agree with criticisms that the opera’s not political because it cut some of the stuff about Reagan. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

If the ballet is a pale cashmere sweater and sparkly skirt, and black tie is a strapless LBD, the opera is perhaps a slinky but not skintight silk dress. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z

On the intimate St. Louis stage, they trivialized an opera ultimately about the inner lives and insecurities of world leaders, revealing how news is really made. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

The very look of a strong production can provide a directorial commentary on an opera. Music Review: Ruthless Czar, Haunted by Doubts 2010-10-12T19:51:00Z

"There's progress, but it's painting the Forth Bridge," he says of opera's place in British life. New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z

Some critics detect parody in these late paintings, assuming Lautrec, the chronicler of popular entertainment, must have been contemptuous of the opera. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

The story of the dissolute nobleman who leaves a path of seduction across Europe before descending into the fiery abyss screaming but unrepentant is Mozart's darkest opera. Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z

One boss bringing in the previous boss is highly unusual at an opera house, or anywhere, for that matter. 2010-02-06T05:43:00Z

Since then, he has sung it in more than 20 opera houses. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z

She had had no previous professional experience in opera. Critic?s Notebook: Sony Classical Releases 4 New Historic Met Opera CDs 2012-01-21T01:25:23Z

Though “Othello” is now played almost exclusively by black actors — except at the opera house — its directors are more often white. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

But this opera’s stirring celebration of wrongs unexpectedly righted with more killing is also to some extent its undoing. With 'Thumbprint,' witness an opera's power to empower women 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

In addition to performing fully staged operas, Mr. Botha appeared in concerts with ensembles including the Vienna and Berlin philharmonics. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But I am terribly discouraged that opera, an art form I revere, still seems stuck at times in a mind-set where physical appearance matters so much. New York Times Critics Respond to Glyndebourne ‘Fat’ Reviews 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Then came the six-year run in Casualty, which required a relatively more realistic acting style than in American soap operas. Simon MacCorkindale obituary 2010-10-17T17:26:00Z

The final constituent was Music Center Opera Assn., an office, not an opera company. How the Music Center broke new ground for major arts institutions 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Putting on heavy fake accents would be the stuff of comedy in any other medium but seems to be acceptable in opera. Review | War is hell, and other original insights: ‘Silent Night’ at the opera 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

This time, the goal is to persuade those same curious friends to love opera, that most passionate of art forms. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Opera (Published 2020) 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

As the opera unfolds, historical facts about the cruise, its passengers and the hijackers are projected on back walls, complete with dates and photographs, including images of the Klinghoffers. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

What qualifies this show for an opera celebration are the Isicathamiya singers, performing an a cappella style that originated among South African Zulus. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Then I started inhaling people’s stories: the queer former-cheerleader, the opera singer, the tree climber, the corset-maker, the pin-up model with PTSD, my mountaineering accountant going through her own divorce, on and on and on. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Met wasn’t anywhere near Ms. Davidsen’s radar as she grew up in small-town Norway, where the nearest major opera house was almost two hours away by train. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The promise here was that a leading musical-theater artist might bring fresh energy to opera. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

That entertainment, in three acts, traces the shifting fortunes of four would-be lovers during Carnival and culminates in the performance of yet another little opera, depicting Orpheus in the underworld. Review: Operas Within Operas Within Operas: A Baroque Explosion in Boston 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

A former soldier who spent nearly two years as an American prisoner of war, Fischer-Dieskau was a regular fixture at opera houses in Berlin, Vienna and London and at New York's Carnegie Hall. Baritone Fischer-Dieskau dies 2012-05-18T13:13:52Z

Employing requisite elements of grand opera, like a plot-stopping ballet, the original version ran more than six hours. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

This opera ends with the soprano, now a ghost, forcing the unfaithful tenor to dance himself to death. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera reopened on Sept. 27 with a performance of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” — the first opera at the Met by a Black composer. The Metropolitan Opera Ushers in a More Diverse Era 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

The opera’s pair of young officers dress up here not as the libretto’s Albanians but as the African mercenaries known as Dubats. Review: Mozart Reimagined in a Violent, Racist World 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

In keeping with what now amounts to a Stuttgart tradition, the other three “Ring” operas in this new cycle will each have different directors. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

“To come together through an opera, to sort of recognize that there were many sides to this,” she said, “could be hugely cathartic for all of us.” Bringing ‘Doctor Atomic’ to the Birthplace of the Bomb 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

That work was billed as a “family opera in one act,” but much of the profanity-heavy “Champion” libretto isn’t suitable for a family newspaper. Music Review: ‘Champion’ at Opera Theater of Saint Louis 2013-06-21T20:58:09Z

Asked which character he most identified with in the show, he said: “These days, I guess the owners of the opera house.” Andrew Lloyd Webber Plays the Hits 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Two hours upriver from New York City, in an old opera house on the main drag of Hudson, N.Y., the festival culminates this weekend with nightly performances from some of straight-ahead jazz’s finest. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

If the concert singing Mrs. Boatwright favored has less marquee value than opera, which she performed on occasion, then that, she made unequivocally clear, was fine with her. Helen Boatwright, Celebrated Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-12-05T07:30:00Z

Certain desserts reappear in different versions and so will benefit from template formulas, like the opera cake. The diary of a pastry cook with Covid-19 taste and smell loss 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

By the time she was 19 and auditioned for the Met, she knew the scores of 20 operas cold. Roberta Peters, Soprano With a Dramatic Entrance, Dies at 86 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Phil commissioned Barry’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which hilariously unhinged Oscar Wilde’s play and has happily become the most celebrated absurdly comic opera of the decade. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s a beautiful opera, but now we’re starting to tell our stories. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels Win the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

“Why an opera like this is not in the repertory everywhere is something I refuse to understand.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

“The whole thing. And I couldn’t live through it. I sort of gave up opera.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Later on Friday, the festival hosts a 9:30 p.m. fundraiser at the Sorrento Hotel built around "The Man in the Mirror," a new, one-act opera by Ben Bernstein. A busy weekend for Seattle Baroque fans, with Handel Festival 2011-03-17T20:02:07Z

Having gone through his rites of manhood in Rome, the ambitious young Julius Caesar — Gaius in the opera — is sent to Bithynia to collect ships from King Nicomedes. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Kurtag, a Hungarian who will be 86 in February, is composing an opera based on Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" that will open in 2013. Salzburg festival commissions 4 new operas 2011-11-17T17:54:12Z

Attendance at classical music, opera and ballet fell between 2002 and 2012, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, as organizations struggle to make their programs affordable and appealing to new audiences. Metropolitan Opera Faces a Slide in Box-Office Revenues 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

For many opera singers, music serves as a vehicle for the voice. Tenor dazzles in a recital with an emotional wallop 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Muhly says that the opera examines the cost of freedom, limitations of forgiveness and impossibility of escaping the past. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Instead, the story insists upon the hoary sentiment of filthy lucre’s overriding all reason and friendship, like an opera without song. ‘The Hobbit,’ Round 3, ‘The Battle of the Five Armies’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

In life and in her opera the line between victim and oppressor started to blur. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

The second is still more appealing: a concert performance of Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” an opera that is impossible not to love. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

In those seven decades, “Carmen Jones” went into a sort of obscurity, marked by the very oddity of its essence: it’s Hammerstein without Rodgers, and an opera meant for Broadway. Anika Noni Rose Was Waiting for This Moment 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

She was considered the mother of Latin America’s telenovelas and wrote dozens of the popular television soap operas. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Each concert paired excerpts from an opera with a programmatic piece, an inherently dramatic form that depicts a story or a character using instrumental forces. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

At the Théâtre des Abbesses on Tuesday, Sophie-Anne Descoubès, 45, attended a comic opera even after a friend decided not to join her. After Paris Attacks, a Slow Reawakening for City’s Cultural Offerings 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

“We don’t see the mainstream media paying much attention to opera these days, and it makes a difference.” Not Even Plácido Domingo Can Say No to ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

All the players in the meta-soap opera surrounding the former reality TV star’s departure from the relatively inconsequential job of director of communications at the White House Office of Public Liaison kept the story going. ‘Dumbest story ever’: How Omarosa’s reality-star exit from the White House hijacked the news. 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

For “Miss Fortune,” Ms. Weir, an experienced opera composer who is conversant in folk idioms, fitted a Sicilian folk story with a modern setting. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z

As “Maria Stuarda,” the opera they listened to on the car radio, wound down, he made a declaration. When a Love Expert Falls in Love 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

He said he wanted to come across as “just a guy who enjoys the opera.” Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Musically, it is the young Wagner’s attempt to do a German version of a French grand opera, and then some. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

Ms DiDonato added that it was this skill, above all, that separates opera singers from other classical vocalists. What makes opera singers different? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera began streaming nightly operas from its extensive video archive, and in April it presented an At-Home Gala, broadcast over smartphones from the homes of singers around the world. The Met Opera Tries to Find Paying Customers in a Pandemic 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

Ten nights of free opera screenings will follow on the plaza in front of the Met. Met Opera Sets Lineup for Free HD Screenings 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

“These years, with the added pressure that is on grand opera, maybe every year should count for two,” Mr. Gelb said. Metropolitan Opera Board to Have a New President 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The matriarch performed her last solo concert just five years ago - when she was 87 - inside Hanoi's elegant French colonial opera house. Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture 2011-02-27T17:16:04Z

Here in the world of opera, of music drama, it is simply rare that you encounter consummate beauty. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z

This letter sheds light on Liszt’s passion for transcribing songs, symphonic music and excerpts from operas into all manner of piano fantasies and paraphrases. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

An annual new opera for the main festival is also on the agenda. Music: New Director of Salzburg Festival Plans an Adventurous Course 2011-08-31T11:00:06Z

The very fact that so many people are worked up about the Met is evidence that opera has the ability to get people's attention. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The Castleton Festival, which began in 2009 with Britten chamber operas staged in his home theater, showed him at his most generous and avuncular. Lorin Maazel, child prodigy turned brilliant conductor and festival founder: 1930-2014

“But in Chinese opera, you cannot look away. It’s painful. It’s weird.” An Opera That Springs From China but Laps Distant Shores 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The said on Monday that Mr. Levine, who is music director of both the Met and the symphony, will cut back on opera performances in the spring. ArtsBeat: James Levine to Cut Back On Met Spring Performances 2011-03-21T17:40:43Z

But the opera did successfully depict the complex and often messy reality of living with HIV. Aids expert Yusef Azad on Angels in America 2010-04-04T22:00:00Z

So what made him, a designer in his 70s, commit to an opera on the other side of the world? From the Paris Catwalk to a Los Angeles Stage 2013-05-30T06:37:03Z

The bucolic English countryside may seem a strange setting for the consumptive heroines and dashing heroes of classical opera, but country-house opera is a long-established feature of the summer social calendar. Garsington: A New Home for English Opera 2011-05-12T14:30:00Z

The Met, which is staging this 1991 opera for the first time, scrapped plans to simulcast the work to movie theaters around the world after some Jewish groups raised objections. The Met Prepares for Opening Night 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare’s original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera. A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — The venerable Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1948 to enhance the natural beauties of southern France, is renowned especially for the quality and variety of its opera program, with Mozart as a staple. Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Includes ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Revival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

"It takes me so long to write these operas. The years just evaporate," he says in astonishment. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

I’ve been at opera performances where the production was so compelling that I was willing to overlook so-so singing. Male critics on female bodies: Tara Erraught, Liza Minnelli and intelligent reviewing

Don Giovanni had just gone to hell, and the rest of the characters in Mozart’s opera of that name were singing of his final moments. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z

Others said the musical was not as accomplished as previous rock opera tales of youthful angst and rebellion such as the Tony award-winning musical "Spring Awakening." Green Day musical no "time of your life": critics 2010-04-21T20:35:00Z

Much of this intelligence, sensibility and brilliance emerged during his brief abortive attempt to run the opera company in Athens: the Greeks have themselves to blame that they squandered such an astounding talent. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

The Saigon of the 1990s comes vividly alive in this swooning period drama by Leon Le, which collides the glamorous world of cai luong, or Vietnamese folk opera, with the grimy underworld of the mafia. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“If opera is to thrive in the future as an art form in America, productions like this can’t be exceptions outside the mainstream canon.” A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Billy Budd,” with an all-male cast, is at once a pulsing grand opera with massed choral scenes and lavish orchestration, and a penetrating psychological drama. Daniel Harding Brings the Opera ?Billy Budd? to Life 2010-04-30T18:39:00Z

In fact, when he lived there he used part of the ground floor to sell copies of his music, librettos, and tickets to his performances: Italian operas, English oratorios and whatever. ArtsBeat: Anna Nicole, Jimi Hendrix and Handel in London 2011-02-15T18:00:32Z

Finch had started acting professionally with several different repertory companies around the UK before he got a part in Crossroads, the popular daytime soap opera, during its first run in 1964. Jon Finch 2013-01-13T11:27:40Z

Nighttime soap operas still exist — there’s “Revenge” and the recently ended “Desperate Housewives” and “One Tree Hill” — but their peak has passed. “The Killing”: So that’s who murdered Rosie? 2012-06-18T14:40:00Z

The final offering of its 2015-2016 season is actually four operas that are performed three times over 23 days. Want to see ‘The Ring’ in D.C.’s first-ever full cycle? Expect to pony up. 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Hall and Zeffirelli began to tour Italy with a range of operas, many with Sutherland. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z

A composer of likably unchallenging opera tackled what many of us consider the most enduringly challenging and substantial work of American literature. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

He has since gone on to direct operas — because he likes the challenge of staging them and dislikes having to pitch himself as a moviemaker, he relates. Books of The Times: ‘The Friedkin Connection’ a Memoir by William Friedkin 2013-05-08T21:18:02Z

That was the most valuable thing that the soap opera gave me. Kathleen Turner on her soap opera days: “My character was so incredibly dumb” 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

In the world of opera, when a director takes a radical approach to a repertory work, the changes and tweaks, however outrageous, are usually confined to the stage. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

While the underlying story, told mostly through movement, is sad and ultimately as sentimental as a soap opera, it’s played for dark laughs, somewhat like an absurdist Nordic version of “M.A.S.H.” Review: ‘The Hospital’: 3 Nurses, No Patients, Dark Ritual 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Better to chart visually the opera’s progression from initial diversion to final bloodshed, when gloominess is indeed in order. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

Mr. Price became his sister’s manager after she retired from opera in 1985, singing a final Met performance of Verdi’s “Aida,” and began a final phase of concert work, which lasted 12 years. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Welles’s peculiar childhood, surrounded by noted opera singers, instrumentalists, and donors, may have given him an early and heightened awareness of the contingencies of musical expression. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

A composite opera, it consists of three interlocking stories, beginning with Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and following her reincarnations in 1890s Paris and 1940s Manhattan. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z

What did that idea open up for you in the opera’s story? In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Her image appears on Syrian bank notes, and she was the subject of a recent soap opera. Heard of ‘Aureliano in Palmira’? You Probably Know the Overture 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The event is scheduled Oct. 15-16, and is free, with the exception of Karen O's opera. Karen O to debut opera at The Creators Project 2011-09-30T19:32:07Z

Yet producing new operas is a risky, expensive proposition. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Sandy once told me that he felt “born to do” this kind of opera, to take part in productions that looked deep into standard works to find contemporary resonances. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

This was the third opera I heard here over the past few days featuring the Vienna Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival’s house band, in the pit. Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

What resulted was a 20-minute bagpipe-powered epic eulogising different public holidays, voiced by a rapping opera diver, and – the most unwanted sound of all – singing children. Hey, what's that sound: children's choirs and kids singing 2010-04-12T10:14:00Z

For another thing, the music — African-American music — was not being used for a vaudeville show, but was employed in the highest of musical arts: opera. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z

Singers dwell meditatively on single notes, which are inflected with flickering bends and ornaments; such gestures accumulate into quivering, ephemeral contours rather than the heaving melodies typical of opera. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

He made ballet scores and opera, borrowed his backing singers from Steve Reich's ensemble, did arranging work for Suzanne Vega, Mike Oldfield, even Desperate Housewives. Peter Gordon, New York's king of disco 2010-04-23T14:19:00Z

“I would say that I worry about opera in the United States,” said Howard Smith, 88, who was at the performance. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Franz Schubert, master melodist and progenitor of the song cycle, never wrote for the theater with success, producing scores for singspiels, operas and incidental music that collect dust on the shelf. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Sheridan mostly resists the temptation to turn the series into a soap opera, relying on his knowledge of what today’s West actually looks and feels like, which gives the series its authentic air. Review | A gruff Kevin Costner has a hard time corralling ‘Yellowstone’s’ wild herd of subplots 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Early childhood music specialist Nicola Burke, who helped to create the course, said “it’s about time” opera was opened up to very small fans. Building a lifelong love of opera in toddlers, one hop at a time 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The scene was La Scala, and the time was not long after he had written a review criticizing the Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, whom opera fans around the world revered with a proprietary zeal. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Trained initially as a bass-baritone, he possessed the heavy vocal power of a heldentenor, the type of voice suited for the dramatic roles of German opera. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

And its outstanding chorus takes full advantage of the many opportunities the opera affords it to shine. Opera Review: At Bayreuth, a Fight Between Love and Order in Radical 'Tannh?user' 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z

If any opera is begging to be directed by a choreographer, it is this one. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z

Many of the young singers performed as if opera singing itself were a single color: a very loud sound, emitted at maximum force to emphasize the pathos of what’s happening. Review | Luminous acting, very loud singing in vivid ‘Roméo & Juliette’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Because of its impact on other composers, few works can be said to have changed the course of opera history as did “Les Huguenots.” Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

I scribbled notes of what certain men said about themselves: This one was a contractor who liked Shakespeare, that one was a lawyer who liked opera. Single, and Surrounded by a Wall of Men 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The composer criticized the Met's cancellation, saying that it "goes far beyond issues of 'artistic freedom,' and ends in promoting the same kind of intolerance that the opera's detractors claim to be preventing." John Adams decries cancellation of 'Klinghoffer' cinema broadcast 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I am a fan of opera, and I loved the fairy tale,” she said. In Venice, Capturing the Brio of Festivities Past 2013-04-23T05:49:12Z

The transition from film to opera was shrewdly engineered by Mr. Catán to capitalize on the poetic ingredient’s suitability for musical treatment. Opera Review: Pablo Neruda and His Mailman, This Time Sung 2010-12-14T13:59:19Z

But this is not the case for my co-workers — a wannabe model from South Carolina who has four roommates way out in Brooklyn, and an Albanian opera singer who lives with her in-laws in Queens. A Labor Day tribute to restaurant workers, cooking and serving food they can’t afford to eat 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

They could go from being a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it novelty to something that New York desperately lacks: a standing, smashing comic opera company. Review: ‘Carmen’ Returns to Its Comic Opera Roots 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Fleming acts naturally, but in this repertory acting and singing are even more unified than elsewhere in opera. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns to Rossini?s Tale of a Sorceress and Her Crusader 2011-02-20T22:58:51Z

The lyrics have been translated and performed in various genres: jazz and opera in English, metal in Germany, choir by French school children and pop in Swedish among others. ‘Baraye,’ the Anthem of Iran’s Protest Movement, Wins a Grammy 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

At a time when singing is proving to be a great way of improving confidence and social interaction in the classroom, ETO has tailored its opera project to meet the requirements of the national curriculum. Fox pop: English Touring Opera gives Roald Dahl back to the kids 2011-02-17T22:26:00Z

At a panel discussion afterwards, several of them spoke movingly of how closely events in the opera mirrored their own experiences. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

Over coffee near the opera house, Hallberg talked about what it was like to begin the job in the middle of a pandemic, his vision for the Australian Ballet and whether he is pro-Vegemite. David Hallberg’s New Job: Decision Maker 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Operalia prizes are decided by a jury of prominent leaders from opera houses around the world. Placido Domingo says Operalia prizes 'went to the right people' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

She was the diva of one of the grandest space operas of all time, and she owned it. Carrie Fisher Made Grand Virtues of Being Fearless and Funny 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

You see so much of the sad mask in opera, but I think there’s something to be said, just as powerful, about joy and happiness. In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

But most of his operas remain unpublished; his papers and scores are kept in Columbia University’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. Long-Unheard Harlem Renaissance Opera Coming in June 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Crowds are essential to this moment — and, really, to opera as an art form. Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The centerpiece of Friday’s program at Avery Fisher Hall was a taut, darkly radiant performance of Bartok’s one-act opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.” Music Review: A Castle?s Locked Doors Bring Out a Wife?s High C 2011-03-20T21:12:53Z

Large performing arts organizations, like orchestras and opera houses, do not have a particularly good track record, historically speaking, of supporting artistic exploration and innovation. Perspective | When artists take over programming, do audiences benefit? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Now, it’s not a soap opera, but a Broadway musical, that Dorothy infiltrates. Review | If you loved the movie ‘Tootsie,’ then you’ll be delighted with the new Broadway show 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Anyone who is familiar with children’s television knows that a rock opera is about as common as a naked mole rat in a purple tuxedo. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

And the effect is heartening: so many children engrossed in a Mozart opera. Review: Fresh Talent Fuels ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Loft operas and experimental companies are springing up everywhere to present vital creative work that isn’t always being done in conventional opera houses. Perspective | In opera, small is the new grand: The revamped In Series shows the way 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Helping to make it look accurate was Michael Bentt, a former professional world champion who served as the opera’s boxing consultant. Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Over the course of the evening, though, Suzuki’s tempos lagged, and the players seemed to meander through the music unless it had theatrical flair — common in Handel’s operas, but rare here. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

This was a work, after all, that transliterated a 19th-century French opera depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of Gypsies into a 20th-century spectacle depicting the supposedly lusty, homicidal nature of black people. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

In many cases, Ms. Fleming was the first and only opera singer they’d ever paid attention to. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

“His performances of such works as Martinu’s opera ‘Plays of Mary’ and Dvorak’s tone poems were powerful and made an important case for including these works in the Czech and world canon.” Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Given its premiere in October 1942, “Capriccio” is ostensibly about the relative charms of words and music, an opera about the making of an opera. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

So far, it has remained unscathed, unlike the opera house in Kharkiv, which suffered damage in the Russian assault on that city. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

On several occasions, she has brought up her fascination with “American Idol,” which she used to watch with her daughter, and said that she wished opera singers were among the contestants. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Sunday performances are the norm at most Broadway shows and at other leading opera and ballet companies around the world, but adding them at the Met was a heavy lift. For the First Time, the Met Will Perform Opera on Sundays 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

We see this constantly now in productions of Shakespeare, and at the opera. ‘Hamilton’ and Company: Tony Award Nominees in a Season That Reflected the World 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

My favorites came from the Opera Philadelphia Channel, which produced inventive, evocative realizations of new opera works. Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

They expressed wonderfully theatrical deranged vulnerability, whereas the revival serves to reveal just how much underlying misogyny is at the center of Strauss’ opera. L.A. Opera's 30-year-old 'Salome' is back, and not a kid anymore 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I have not seen many full, fancy productions of the work in opera houses that match the creativity of this one. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

Now a one-evening version, called the Vienna Music Film Festival NY, is heading to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Aug. 29 and will feature filmed excerpts of European opera productions. ArtsBeat Blog: A Vienna Festival Heads to New York 2011-08-15T16:18:05Z

Seattle Opera’s revival of its very successful 2006 “Cosi fan tutte,” which updated the setting of the Mozart opera to the 21st century, demolishes a lot of stage clichés with a brash modernist zest. Seattle Opera puts a zesty 21st century spin on ‘Cosi fan tutte’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Though not without flaws and too prone to sweeping, melodramatic outbursts that become predictable, even cloying, the opera is theatrically and musically effective. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

From the overture onward, Aucoin demonstrated his keen ability to navigate between the emotional worlds of the opera, veering from haunting evocations of loss and mourning into vertiginous episodes and even a clangorous dance party. Review | At Met premiere, ‘Eurydice’ offers a beguiling visit to the underworld 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

The choice of Marat proves eminently logical because a radical militant in the opera actually speaks of dusting off a bust of the leader. Music: Opera on Lake Constance: Love, Death and Fate 2011-07-26T11:00:06Z

Yet in also depicting her as racist and homophobic, Adès precludes empathy, and we are left with the realisation that no other major opera encourages quite such deep contempt for its characters and its world. Powder Her Face 2010-04-28T21:00:00Z

Whether rock or opera, Hall's eye for fabric, light and meticulous detail remained steady. Peter J Hall obituary 2010-06-24T18:00:00Z

Arguably his most politicized composition is his alluring, macabre opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.” The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

One prominent opera supporter saw the ban as something else: censorship. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

Unlike much space opera, this story centers on Chinese and Vietnamese customs instead of Western military conventions, and is all the more welcome for it. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The designer Anna Viebrock’s handsome single set depicting a courtroom does so as well, even if no scene of the opera is specified to take place in one. Opera Review: Provocations at the Salzburg Festival 2011-08-16T11:30:19Z

Carlisle’s music gave me a place in the opera world that I didn’t think I could have. Carlisle Floyd: Artists Share Memories of a Composer 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

To those who might point out that “Forza” is hardly a bel canto opera, Mr. Crutchfield has this to say: “I use the term ‘bel canto’ at convenience. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

It's not often that you get to hear "a concert-length a cappella opera that recounts the creation story of the ancient Zoroastrians" — while you watch the sun set over the Olympics. Review: Sculpture park a perfect setting for Esoterics' exploration of ancient myth 2010-05-08T18:39:00Z

“Our shows are like soap operas,” he said. MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

New opera glasses cost as little as $20, and there’s no way you could even begin to get a professional cleaning for that price. How to restore antique opera glasses 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The run, conducted by Alan Pierson, is the centerpiece of Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now, an invaluable annual festival of contemporary chamber opera and performance. ‘Dog Days’ Is Centerpiece of Prototype Festival 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The opera was commissioned under the auspices of the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative, a laudable program to train American composers that began last fall with 20-minute chamber operas. Music Review: ‘Approaching Ali’ by D. J. Sparr at Kennedy Center 2013-06-10T21:43:12Z

Before the premiere, The New York Times reported that Opera Hong Kong, which commissioned and produced “Dr. Sun Yat-sen,” was told that the opera was not politically serious enough. Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

Neither is it “Rigoletto” or “Parsifal,” to name just two operas that beg for indelible performances but manage to fascinate even without them. Music Review: An ‘Andrea Chénier’ Short on Star Power 2014-03-25T09:46:00Z

A solo exhibition will accompany each of the four operas in the cycle. Inside Art: Abstract Meditations 2010-09-23T21:39:00Z

The question, he felt, should be "let's see what this particular opera means for us now". Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

The result in Salome, and in his next opera Elektra, was an unremittingly heady mix of sound driving outrageous treatments of these classical and biblical dramas. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

But for Woolcock, the opera contained two essential ingredients – a central triangular love story, and the fact that it is set in a poor village. Penny Woolcock ? runaway success 2010-06-07T21:01:00Z

Billed as a chamber opera, the work, which features a spoken narration, straddles the boundary between musical theater and opera. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

The company presented its fourth annual crop of three 20-minute operas at the Terrace Theater on Wednesday night. Opera as bourgeois drama: 20-minute pieces at WNO 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“Ruth is a harsh opera critic,” he said at the time. ‘Tristan’ to Open Met Season in 2016 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Goerke’s success has been big news in the opera world, which is usually grateful for singers who can merely get through such parts relatively unscathed. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The opera will be premiered in Philadelphia in the fall. Review | Small opera plus big ideas make, this weekend, for a misfit 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Employing stark, somewhat abstract sets and costumes that blend realistic and surreal touches, the production plumbs the teeming yet murky emotions of the opera. At Salzburg Festival, Two Bold Directors Claim Their Stages 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

That opera, “Two Boys,” had its premiere at the English National Opera in 2011, and when it arrived at the Metropolitan Opera two years later, it sounded unripe. Review: Nico Muhly’s Moody Concerto for Two Pianos 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Newspaper critics, he said, should not write in “a person and hateful way,” especially when theaters and opera houses were still trying to tempt audiences back after pandemic shutdowns and interruptions. He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to be Heard. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

To fit within the time limits, the opera needed a device: Don Jose’s mother, a character who is not onstage in the opera, was introduced as the narrator. Review | An abridged version of ‘Carmen’ falls short on time and drama 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

He is due to appear at the Salzburg festival and at the Verona opera house in August. Domingo treated for blood clot 2013-07-10T08:10:10Z

Camané even ended his set with vocals and instruments unamplified, as if playing at a traditional fado house; his voice was large enough to fill the opera house. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z

Her sensual, even elemental presence makes her particularly ideal for the daunting mezzo roles that anchor some of Verdi’s most important operas. A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

They both sing soothing pseudo-opera for people who don't really like opera: opera meets pop. Pass notes No 3,034: Katherine Jenkins 2011-08-28T18:59:01Z

While lovesick couples are hardly an unusual sight in opera, it’s less common for them to emit real heat. Romeo and Juliet, Flushed and Feverish at the Met Opera 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

His less-heralded achievements included several opera librettos, including the one for Virgil Thomson’s “Lord Byron.” Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

But there is no happy ending in any opera unless the orchestra is up to scratch. New production of Rossini's Cinderella a delight 2013-01-27T20:31:05Z

The opera not only educates audience members; its on-the-job training “plays a very important role in the arts ecology of the region,” said Deborah Daoust, Seattle Center communications director. Seattle Opera has big plans for its new headquarters at Seattle Center 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

But what matters most to someone like me who spends a lot of time at Lincoln Center hearing concerts and going to operas, is the quality of the halls and houses. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z

On moving to San Francisco in 1934, he took lessons with Cowell, who become a crucial mentor, and attended productions of Chinese opera. America’s Quintessential Maverick Composer, at 100 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

But I do think that having this additional source of opera performance has had many positive outcomes.” HD broadcasts, once the future of opera, are now seen by some as its demise 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

And most important, how does the opera end? 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

And of course this darkest of the major musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II fits quite snugly into even the most doom-ridden opera season. Review: ‘Carousel,’ a Broadway Turn at Lyric Opera of Chicago 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

And the Met mounted an acclaimed production of Mr. Glass’s second opera, “Satyagraha,” in 2008. Music Review: ?Satyagraha,? by Philip Glass, at Met Opera - Review 2011-11-06T22:10:16Z

“American Idiot” was widely viewed as one of the most inventive new shows of the season for Broadway, a rock opera with little dialogue based on songs of Green Day, a wildly popular punk-rock band. In Tony Nominations, Art and Commerce Duke It Out 2010-05-04T23:38:00Z

Operas by Monteverdi and other Baroque composers often feature roles written for castrati -- male opera singers who were castrated at a young age to preserve their boy voices. Allison Williams in 'Peter Pan' continues a cross-dressing tradition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Such are the perils of live opera broadcasts, pioneered by the Metropolitan Opera but now increasingly the province of other companies. ArtsBeat Blog: Watching a La Scala Opening on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T23:05:49Z

He said he agreed with Mr. Gelb’s financial strategy and was motivated by his effort to “democratize opera” through the HD transmissions. Metropolitan Opera?s Donations Hit a Record $182 Million 2011-10-11T02:17:33Z

As he sings to Lulu, Alwa glances up at her portrait and his gaze is underlined in the orchestra by a series of chords that have been associated with the painting since the opera’s beginning. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the opera featured a little too much repetition and extension of its painful moments, particularly in a dark ending that went on too long: hammer blows delivered in slow motion. Review | The American Dream as American nightmare: An opera for our time 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Rakim My mother sang jazz and opera – she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night. When Rakim met Wretch 32 2011-08-12T23:11:03Z

The plaza is currently named after opera singer Maria Callas. Paris wants a ‘Princess Diana Square’ at site of her death 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

SALZBURG, Austria — What’s a summer at the Salzburg Festival without at least one opera production that provokes vociferous booing on its opening night? Review: A Divisive ‘Fidelio’ Draws Boos at Salzburg 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The opera becomes a farcical look at the absurdities of American social, political, military and religious elites, all represented with stock stereotypes. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

Nézet-Séguin is a gifted Mozart conductor, and his treatment of the finale — witty and nimble — could have been the overture to one of that composer’s operas. Review: Two Years Later, a Beethoven Cycle Reaches Its Finale 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Natasha Haddad, a spokeswoman for English National Opera, said that company would roll out his “Ring” as individual operas over five seasons, concluding in 2025; no cycles of the full work are planned for London. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

The Lyric Opera of Chicago will hold a high-culture rummage sale of sorts potentially featuring more than 3,000 pieces of costumes dating to the 1960s, opera company officials said. Early start on Halloween costume? Lyric Opera holds sale 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

"Where else are you going to perform an opera?" one bystander asked wryly while watching a "Hopscotch" rehearsal earlier this month in a vacant lot strewn with broken glass. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

“He said that he felt as though my writing this opera was almost like a grieving process, which I thought was really fascinating and kind of a cool way to look at it,” she said. Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z

She has never done a staged opera here. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian Soprano 2012-03-30T16:27:11Z

Leech joined the Houston Grand Opera as chief operating officer in 2010, after a 27-year career in production at theaters and opera companies that include the English National Opera and the Welsh National Opera. Houston opera conductor named new music director 2011-05-26T03:52:08Z

Yet Saturday’s performance, while loving, didn’t disprove the old consensus about the opera. Copeland’s ‘The Tender Land’ Is Revived by Chelsea Opera 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the opera, as in real life, Klinghoffer is shot in the head and his body is thrown overboard in his wheelchair. The (controversial) ‘Klinghoffer’ show will go on at The Met 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Tom Arber/Opera North Wagner's Ring is the ultimate test for an company: an epic, 16-hour cycle of four mythological operas that is both expensive to stage and to watch. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

The HD broadcasts appear to be catering largely to people who like opera already — and who are not buying tickets to see it live. HD broadcasts, once the future of opera, are now seen by some as its demise 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Always in the tango is tragedy — she leaves him, she kills him. It’s like an opera but it’s called tango,” he told the Associated Press in 1997, reflecting on the “Tango” score. Gato Barbieri, Grammy-winning saxophonist heard on ‘Last Tango in Paris’ score, dies at 83 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Any sharing would be tantalizing: Aix is one of the world’s best opera immersions and one of the most progressive. Another Title for Pierre Audi: Director of Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Of course the lockout will not have its usual impact during the pandemic, when few Met stagehands are working; only a few dozen stagehands have recently been at the opera house, Mr. Gelb said. Metropolitan Opera to Lock Out Stagehands as Contract Talks Stall 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

After I went to my first opera in 1999, one of our mutual friends told me Terry really loved opera. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Newly established or not, Baroque opera remains a specialist pursuit at the Met, so a certain continuity is to be expected in casting. Music Review: Ren?e Fleming Returns in ?Rodelinda? Opera - Review 2011-11-15T22:51:34Z

But on Friday, the Washington National Opera will be presenting the world premiere of her third opera, a 70-minute piece called “Proving Up,” and the opera world counts the company lucky to get it. Perspective | Steeped in Guns N’ Roses and Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli is a leading composer of her generation 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

A new company, Grange Festival, will stage four operas in the summer of 2017. For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

He will conduct two operas per season as music director designate and five operas per season once he assumes the role. Nezet-Seguin to become Met Opera music director in 2020-21 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

In 2014, an Indian television channel was launched to air these soap operas. A Troubling Culture War Between India and Pakistan 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

What did you think was most important to bring into your opera from the play? The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the left opera balcony, the movie's producers shake their heads too. Comeback Kids 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z

Bringing opera to the charts with Madame Butterfly Having anticipated the interest in "world music" which would take hold in the late 80s with records like Paul Simon's Gracelands, McLaren moved on. Malcolm McLaren: a career in clips 2010-04-09T07:34:00Z

The ornate opera house was packed from the orchestra seats to the top gallery, with captains of industry and children, college students and mill workers. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

But with Sunday’s auditions focused on the future of opera via new talent, Poll decided to host a broader conversation about the art form. Seattle’s Metropolitan Opera auditions get a makeover 2014-01-15T19:17:36Z

The band's name and music were inspired by the manuscript of an unfinished opera by the Basque grandfather of one-time backing singer Laure Stockley, written just before his death. Crystal Fighters: Bringing Basque the beats 2011-03-28T20:44:00Z

The late modernist’s enthusiasm for vertiginous, improbable structures resulted in a slew of masterpieces, including the opera “Le Grand Macabre” and works such as “Lux Aeterna” and “Atmospheres.” Review: Ligeti Sounded Thrilling, When Alarm Will Sound Was Let Loose 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

You previously had only one acting credit, on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” In a Flash, How Sasha Calle Became Supergirl 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

As a prolific opera conductor, the Italian maestro marveled at the “bel canto quality” Cho brought to the concerto’s slow movement. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

“The problem in opera houses is that you have a lot of rehearsal for one project and then you have a revival with much less,” Mr. Levine said. Donald Palumbo, a Met Star in the Wings 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

When her hotly anticipated opera “The Romance of the Rose,” originally scheduled for April 2020, was canceled, Soper began to post spare yet smartly filmed excerpts online. Review: Outshining a Premiere, a Group Announces Its Arrival 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe someday I’ll write an opera, and George will make that happen. To Get to City Opera, Mr. Downtown Practiced Eclecticism 2011-03-18T23:21:12Z

The silent pause is surprisingly difficult in opera, compared with spoken theatre: you always wonder when the music will start. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z

This process is apt considering The Waste Land includes allusions to show tunes, operas, folk ballads and ragtime songs among its linguistic flotsam and jetsam. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z

Gotham, whose motto is “where opera gets intimate,” sometimes operates like a guerrilla opera troupe. Gotham Chamber Opera Has Rare Works and Many Venues 2013-12-24T21:40:58Z

Fortunately, Ken Cazan's Long Beach production, which was repeated Sunday afternoon before being packed up for Chicago, finds a few successfully unexpected solutions to the opera's historical convention. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Deaf to the innovations of his newest opera, critics became obsessed with the “inauthenticity” of everything from the singers’ gestures and makeup to the alleged misuse of American verbal locutions and musical idioms. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z

And impresarios who commission new operas often ask for works in the two-hour range. Could You Shorten That Aria? Opera Weighs Cuts in the Classics 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Brandstrup had choreographed to the music before in an opera context and said he had remained fascinated by its difficulty. Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

At an opera festival, tales of drug cartels. Review | Two opera companies animate a 17th-century work to confront #MeToo head-on 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The play the opera is based on, Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck,” with its scenes of poverty, sex and madness, is very much the work of a young author. William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

But he tried not to listen to any of these while working on the opera, which commenced in 2016. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The following month, his opera based on Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” will be staged in Wiesbaden, Germany. Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z

Why Seattle Opera is presenting it now: According to general manager Speight Jenkins, “The Consul” is “both opera theater and a theatrical opera. It is a play with gripping music, tuneful, memorable, and expressive.” 5 things to know about Seattle Opera’s ‘The Consul’ 2014-02-12T20:32:09Z

It is a use of political content far less bracing and unexpected than that in Mr. Adams’s early operas “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer.” Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z

The version done at the Met, revised by Shostakovich, radiates noble seriousness, but to fill out its panoramic scope the opera needs passionate singers who believe in their characters and convey the text with clarity. Mussorgsky?s ?Khovanshchina? Comes to Met Opera 2012-02-24T20:07:06Z

“I’m trying to do as much as I can of everything, and I’m equally split between plays, musical theater and opera right now.” Strathmore is singing a new tune 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

He, a master of all things opera, answered them patiently and completely. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

And, with the clarion elegance of Davóne Tines in the title role, this is one of the year’s most essential, and urgent, opera recordings. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

No less a star was the 1847 version itself, which emerged as first-rate opera. An Italian Festival Presents Verdi on His Own Turf 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

In fact, this is a rare opera in which you shouldn’t know the plot beforehand. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The English National Opera’s policy of performing operas in English pays major dividends in facilitating comprehension by the audience of the chilling efficiency with which Mr. Summers presents Iago’s case for Desdemona’s unfaithfulness. In Britain, Opera Season Opens With ‘Otello’ and ‘William Tell’ 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

But the Seventh brought Barenboim’s great talent as a conductor of Wagner’s operas to the fore. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bullock, who first gained attention as a student at the Juilliard School in operas by Janacek and Massenet, has in recent years become a composers’ muse. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Tuggle volunteered to conduct ballets when he was working with an opera company in Berlin. In ballet, conductors are the dancers’ guardian angels 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Still, he raised the possibility of a merger to sustain the opera in Washington. Placido Domingo to leave Washington National Opera 2010-09-27T21:51:00Z

Some opera glasses have a single screw at the center; others have none and can’t easily be disassembled. How to restore antique opera glasses 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Its tone—camp and dread; part crime drama, part soap opera, part horror movie—has never been recreated. Some Thoughts on the Planned Return of “Twin Peaks” 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Find out what goes on backstage and onstage, and explore the context and music of each opera. How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

The war with Japan was on, however, and it was forbidden to perform that opera. Camilla Williams, Opera Singer, Dies at 92 2012-02-02T22:51:38Z

But in “The Hang,” a new opera from the performer Taylor Mac, the answer involves equal parts philosophy and décor. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Mayer’s equanimity in the face of potential naysayers doesn’t mean that he has abandoned hope of pleasing even those opera lovers who have grown wary of directorial tinkering. ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z

Not that we are ever allowed to forget that there is something bigger going on than the usual dramatic soap operas of fractured families and love affairs. | 'The Normal Heart': Raw Anguish of the Plague Years 2011-04-28T02:30:28Z

Soap opera General Hospital dominates the daytime serial nods with three of the five nominations, alongside Days Of Our Lives and One Life To Live. Homeland directors up for DGA awards 2013-01-10T10:02:58Z

Last month it decided not to renew its lease at the Shubert Theater in Boston, which is not well suited for opera. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The 1804 coronation ceremony had a touch of opera buffa that would be hilarious had it not ushered in a dictatorship that embarked on endless warfare, killing millions. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z

This year's endeavour features four new 15-minute works and a longer excerpt of three scenes from an hour-long opera in development, which doesn't fit with Five:15's ethos. Five:15 2010-05-16T21:35:00Z

For much of the evening there is one show taking place on stage, and another opera being played, often very beautifully under Jean-Luc Tingaud's direction, in the orchestra pit. Le Roi Malgré Lui – review 2012-10-29T13:12:00Z

There are too many dimly lit meetings in warehouses and over-edited karate fights in kitchens and soap opera revelations that are meant to enrich the main characters but that usually feel off-point. "V": How to fix ABC's struggling alien invasion series 2011-02-22T15:40:00Z

“What I think was a mistake at the opera was for many years to persist with a number of productions which were locked into purely vocal performance,” Lissner said. Is opera audience aging? Not in Paris 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The Italian tenor, who became one of the most successful opera stars of all time, died of pancreatic cancer. Posthumous honour for Pavarotti 2013-09-17T08:45:07Z

“It felt like an experiment. But ‘The Threepenny Opera’ allows for that more than, say, a Mozart opera.” In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Britten is writing “Death in Venice” — an opera about an older man obsessed with a beautiful boy, a theme that echoes in “The Habit of Art” — and it’s not going well. ‘The Habit of Art’ Review: Theater of the Creative Drive 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Last season, Opera Philadelphia attempted to reinvent itself with a new, season-opening festival, called O, which aimed to spread opera throughout the city. Review | ‘Lucia’ unvarnished, Handel unbound: Opera Philadelphia festival strikes again 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Take a moment to slow down, breathe deep and drink a cup of tea at Jäger TEE, a small family-owned tea shop steps away from the opera. From street food to fine dining, here is a foodie's guide to visiting Vienna 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z

Typically of this kind of pluralist chain, hook-ups with the New York Met for opera and the National theatre for plays are frequent, as are special film screenings with Q&As. Cine-files: Curzon Soho, London 2012-06-26T14:56:00Z

Mainly Maria I is a grim figure in funereal black, with hair tied back, who hovers over everyone longingly, as though a long-suffering mother in an Italian verismo opera.  Gustavo Dudamel, Cecilia Bartoli and a grim, bizarre 'West Side Story' in Salzburg 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

For me, it also revealed the connections between the two operas, especially in the two female leads. Review: 2 Murderous Men in 2 Operas About Killing for Politics 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

He is grateful for the performances, he added, but does not conceal his feelings about the state of contemporary opera and the commitment of companies to stage new works. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Is Kurt Weill’s “Lost in the Stars” theater or opera? Lost stars on stage for Washington National Opera 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mahler, however, might be the better composer to hear Ms. Young conduct, given what she is known for in her long-established career at opera houses and concert halls abroad. Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Newhouse described the company’s mission as presenting traditional and rarely heard operas and introducing new talent, which he said would continue under Mr. Steel, whom he called “endlessly creative, energetic and intrepid.” City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z

When music and staging are working in tandem, opera is generally in pretty good shape, and Glimmerglass can pride itself on the close of a happy 40th anniversary. Glimmerglass season shines with vibrant vocal performances 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Crushed, Charles phones home and discovers from his mother that Chester has dropped by, which leads back to the opera’s opening, when we see Charles ready to kill. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Simple sentiments are often expressed in music that sounds overly elaborate to the Western ear, particularly in the context of a work that otherwise behaves like a Western opera. Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

It began last week with two disappointingly insignificant operas but then exploded over the weekend with a bevy of intriguingly diverse concerts. NY Phil Biennial laudable, yet in need of curatorial vision 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

For decades, the director Franco Zeffirelli, who died on Saturday at 96, was the unabashed emperor of extravagance in opera. Franco Zeffirelli Made Subtle, Striking Opera. Until He Exploded. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Caramoor will continue to present opera, but doesn’t plan to produce it, instead inviting companies — a different one each year — to include the festival in the course of a tour. At Caramoor, an Operatic Milestone That’s Both Farewell and Beginning 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her later TV credits include the soap operas “The Young and the Restless” and “As the World Turns” and the short-lived drama “Lucas Tanner,” on which she was a regular. Rosemary Murphy, 89, Emmy Winner, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

An opera production with such legs is far from common and thus impressive. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“And sometimes, swear to God, this cheap Mexican soap opera.” Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

The operas of Anthony Davis — the recipient of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Music for “The Central Park Five” — are sonically audacious and politically pointed. Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ideally, opera is supposed to be the ultimate collaborative art form, and Anna Nicole met that ideal. Success or failure? 2011-02-18T10:18:29Z

“He crafted an identity for the opera around his own artistic values — and his social values as well,” Mr. Aster said. Berlin’s State Opera Has Served Kings, Presidents and Dictators. Now What? 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

As always, Ms. Voigt’s singing will stir debate within the opera world. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z

Called "Hopscotch" and presented by the experimental opera company the Industry, the breathtakingly complex production is shaping up to be one of the most audacious cultural events of the year. Industry's 'Hopscotch' opera will take to L.A. streets in cars 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Then “The Consul” more or less sank from view, despite the fact that its themes of political oppression, soulless bureaucracy, and the quest for freedom are as timely today as at the opera’s premiere. Seattle Opera revives a gripping, polished ‘Consul’ 2014-02-24T19:05:37Z

But if Monostatos makes no impression at all, why even go to the opera? A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created

“Dialogues” ends with one of opera’s great coups de théâtre. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

An audience that attends only for a story is not an audience primed to enjoy the distinctive and unique strengths of opera. Perspective | New opera wants the same appeal as television. If only it could be as smart.  2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

More than ever, “La Bohème” was also an opera of objects. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

She said that given her background in choral music, she especially looked forward to opera projects and to working with Simon Halsey, the orchestra’s esteemed chorus director. Birmingham Symphony Names Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Rising Star, as Its Next Conductor 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Completed in 1961, it is the last opera by one of the 20th century's major composers. A fresh recording of 'Long Christmas Dinner' serves plenty to be thankful for 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

It’s open to question just how much opera reaches outside its existing audience by bringing in artists from other worlds. Perspective | This legendary street artist has done walls, shoes and Bieber albums. Now he’s trying opera. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Concert opera is a specialized genre that tends to be beloved by voice junkies who can mainline on pure sound without the distraction of props and wonky productions. The 30th birthday for Washington Concert Opera: Where voice junkies can get their fix 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

She might have gone on to a professional career in basketball, in fact, had she not found opera during her senior year as a chorus member in Puccini’s “Tosca.” How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

That motif, in countless manifestations and transformations, runs through the entire work, a five-hour evening at an opera house. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z

Compressed into the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s black box theater, the opera has lost some of its vertiginous impact. Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Industry focuses on new operatic works, but outside the company, Sharon has a career directing grand opera and other stage works. Yuval Sharon residency to fortify L.A. Philharmonic's opera profile 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Fure felt at home in this genre, somewhere between abstract contemporary opera and sound art, but like many composers she had to reconcile her interests with the financial pressures of a traditional career. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

To see and hear favorite productions performed by star conductors and singers, opera lovers head to Roman amphitheaters, outdoor theaters and traditional opera houses throughout Europe. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z

Brazil’s soap operas combine Arabian exotica with Brazilian suds and their depictions of Muslim characters spark arguments even while they draw huge audiences. Books of The Times: ‘Rebel Music,’ by Hisham D. Aidi 2014-04-23T21:51:25Z

Adams turns 75 in February and is hard at work on his latest opera — a treatment of Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” set to his own libretto. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

Yet the same elements that give her solo work an enigmatic, awkward grace — close harmonies, an introverted performance style, the modest colors of a Wurlitzer organ — are magnified to unflattering effect in her first opera. Music Review: ‘The Vienna Rite,’ by Judith Berkson, at Roulette 2012-11-05T19:43:03Z

On Saturday, Feb. 14, Cinerama shows “Gone With the Wind,” the 1939 Civil War soap opera starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, at 11 a.m.; A time for romance, Oscar nominees, Varsity reopening 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Across the years, novels, plays, biographies, films, songs, operas, ballets and comic books have told her story. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z

The chorus was outstanding throughout, beautifully controlled and responsive to Noseda’s energetic gesticulations — in big operas or choral pieces like this one, the conductor often appears to be singing the whole thing himself. Review | Noseda and the NSO rise to ‘Unexpected’ challenge at Carnegie Hall 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The festival’s offerings are divided into three rigid categories: opera, concerts and drama. Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Its delivery leads to her infamous necrophiliac behaviour at the opera's climax that would become the talk of European cafe society. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

Among other projects, she designed the aquatic center for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, museums in Cincinnati, Glasgow and Rome, an auto plant in Germany and an opera house in China. Zaha Hadid, Pritzker-winning architect of defiance and drama, dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The opera shifts between scenes in which the ghost of Pvt. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Ades, a New York benefactor of music, opera and ballet, has promised to donate her drawings to the Morgan. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z

“By everyone, I mean people who have never had a chance to go to an opera house,” he continued. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

Created by Dan Curtis, “Dark Shadows” was a macabre and bonkers upside-down of “Peyton Place,” a more conventional soap opera popular of its time. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Dark Shadows’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible to say what that would have been, but from the perspective of 2022, the opera is, frankly, not very good. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Weber was not the only early-Romantic composer to write a sung-through German opera, but it was his that spurred Schumann and Wagner to aim higher. Russell Platt: Classical Music This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

This time he focused more on the revenue side, seeking ways to encourage more people to come to the opera. For the First Time, the Met Will Perform Opera on Sundays 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

It’s a challenging yet apt assignment for the Met debut of Jakub Hrusa, a rising Czech maestro who’s already a regular with American orchestras, if not yet with American opera houses. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Opera Philadelphia announced Tuesday the launch of a new opera festival at the start of its 2017-2018 season. Opera Philadelphia announces new festival for 2017 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Adams also is working with her older sister, Lynne Adams, who acted in soap operas before she became a playwright, on a do-it-yourself series for the Internet. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

That scene is the heart of the opera. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

Over the years I’ve tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Girard presents the opera as taking place within her fevered imagination. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s not a protest opera, it’s not an opera about police brutality,” Mr. Thompson said. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

And other, smaller companies are joining in, like the Industry, whose inaugural production, of Anne LeBaron’s new opera, “Crescent City,” immersed both singers and audience in a warehouse full of vivid installation-style set pieces. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

Chinese folk melodies and Western symphonic music are on the program, as well as traditional instruments such as the jinghu, a string instrument used primarily in Chinese opera. ‘A Colorful Musical Journey’ 2013-04-18T21:50:15Z

New works premiere every week, from brief curtain-raisers to lengthy symphonies and operas. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Royal Opera's Tristan und Isolde took both opera awards: best new production and outstanding achievement for the Swedish soprano Nina Stemme. The Mountaintop is surprise winner at Olivier awards 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z

The opera played Switzerland and the UK without problems, and it may have done so in India, though at this point none of us will know if that might have been the case. Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z

“Of course, at the beginning, I was looking around, and I was upset: ‘Why does this colleague sing this part with this orchestra in this opera house and why not me?’ Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z

In the mid-1990s, Hadid won a competition to design a new opera house in Cardiff, Wales. As concerns about the purpose of the building and its budget hit the press, xenophobic remarks began to surface. Why we talk about Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity even though her architecture transcended both 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

It’s surprising that the Tristan and Isolde story, a medieval Celtic tale that has long figured in literature, film and in Wagner’s opera of the same name, has been so infrequently used by ballet. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The 600-seat theater was just about ideal for a Baroque opera performed with a chamber orchestra of 19 players. Identity Shifts for New York City Opera 2012-06-01T14:12:32Z

“While dramatic and beautiful and faithful to these locations to a certain extent, it’s not as picturesque. It’s less opera as tourism and more as heightened dramatic art.” Highlights From the Met Opera’s 2017-18 Season 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

They have created music videos, opera sets and, most recently, a gripping, nonlinear, half-hour meditation on the collection of 19th-century medical curiosities owned by the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. The Week Ahead: Aug. 5 — Aug. 11 2012-08-03T18:25:27Z

"Most of them act in serials and soap operas to earn money," Szustow said. European arts cuts: Polish drama turns to tragedy as cuts bite 2012-08-01T16:30:46Z

Whether characters rail at their fate or surrender to it, opera composers endow them with a clarity and eloquence that is inspiring — and educational. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

George Gershwin called “Porgy and Bess” a “folk opera,” which placed him in a long line of composers who drew inspiration from folk themes, real or imagined. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The opera legend’s appearance Thursday to accept the award from the Austria Music Theater will be his first in public since recovering from the virus at his home in Acapulco, Mexico. After recovering from virus, Domingo vows to clear name 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

“The ‘Ring’ is so intense — it’s the Olympics of opera for the presenters, but also for the attendees,” Tweeddale says. At Seattle Opera, not resting on the ‘Ring’ 2013-08-22T02:38:02Z

Though the countess is at the dramatic center of the opera, the role does not involve much singing. Music Review: Betting on Not-So-Sure Things: Love and a Trick to Win at Cards 2011-03-13T22:08:17Z

Mr. Huang spent four years writing the opera about Sun, a revered figure in Chinese history who helped overthrow the monarchy and became the first president of the Chinese Republic after the 1911 revolution. Music Review: Huang Ruo?s ?Dr. Sun Yat-Sen? at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2012-01-12T23:44:28Z

In a radio interview Bing had defended the company against the charge of neglecting living composers by arguing that the public showed scant interest in new opera. An Essential Music Critic, but Nobody’s Role Model 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Sky Arts are really starting to punch above their weight, increasing their involvement all the time, in live operas, plays, The Book Show. Bragg to Sky 2010-07-19T10:37:00Z

His musico-dramatic genius would prevail in fashioning a new version of the libretto that formed the basis of the opera's text as composed. A meeting of minds on the high seas 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z

Programming a major contemporary opera is a venture in the same vein. New York Philharmonic Plans Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-23T22:39:00Z

But she chose to work in Japan, where she became an instant hit, performing in operas and concerts before prime ministers. Ukrainian opera singer in Japan prays for peace in melody 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, the stilted dialogue and static camerawork leaves The Linguini Incident feeling more like Invitation To Love, the intentionally gaudy soap opera watched by the characters of Twin Peaks. The Linguini Incident: a Bowie re-release nobody needs to see 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z

Starring opposite Lee, playing a kindly factory owner, was his father, Lee Hoi-chuen, who also happened to be a famous opera singer. 10 amazing facts about Bruce Lee 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

It also arises from a culture-shifting conversation in which Seattle’s Asian-American community has decried the racist stereotypes and cultural appropriation at the core of the opera. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Perelman center’s artistic plans — it promises to showcase theater, dance, music, chamber opera and film — should come into focus on June 14 when it announces its first season. It’s the Perelman Performing Arts Center, But Bloomberg Gave More 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The opera is subtitled “Quasi un Monologo Circolare,” and Mr. Sciarrino reflects this “circular monologue” in the structure of the work, which has three scenes involving the repetition of lines and varied repetitions of music. Music Review: Salvatore Sciarrino?s ?Porta Della Legge,? After Kafka 2010-07-21T21:23:00Z

The murders in this one are inspired by the plots of operas, so it's tailor- made for young Morse. Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero; Endeavour: TV review 2013-04-22T06:00:20Z

Something about it feels very much like a soap opera. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 8, Episode 3: Cut to Black 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

As to your observation about the piece’s shallowness, Philip: Yes, some of these characters are paper-thin, but so are some of the characters in opera — which is, of course, the source of these stereotypes. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Al Murray’s German Adventure: ‘gave the impression that most Germans must be busy at home writing operas’. Rewind TV: Al Murray's German Adventure; Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders; At Home With the Georgians; Mad Men 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Its yearly Prelude to Performance program presents chosen artists in carefully prepared staged productions of two operas. Classical Music Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Rossini lived for nearly 40 years after “Guillaume Tell” but never wrote another opera. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z

I could image a Roumain opera written for the Met’s stage. For the Met Opera, the Pandemic Could Be a Necessary Reset 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

She toured Europe as a singer in the opera "Porgy and Bess," danced with Alvin Ailey and recorded an album, "Calypso Lady," acted off-Broadway and joined the Harlem Writers Guild. Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights advocate, dies at 86 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

This was a surprising answer, given that Glass’s opera about Lee’s surrender to Grant premièred at the San Francisco Opera in 2007. Philip Glass Never Stops Writing 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

But the instrumental writing shows Mr. Glass moving farther afield from the music of his early operas and symphonies, and embracing a broader harmonic palette. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Other supporters of "Klinghoffer" have noted that some of its most vehement critics have yet to see the opera performed. Controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' goes on at Met Opera House despite protests 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The opera follows a group of Jewish citizens in medieval Konstanz who are persecuted for their heritage. Yoko Ono in Buenos Aires and Ellie Goulding in Serbia: Global Arts Guide 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Sixteen years passed between the selection of the Danish architect Jorn Utzon’s design for an opera house in Sydney Harbor and that building’s completion in the early 1970s. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

She found enormous success performing and recording a variety of styles including folk-rock, country, Latin, light opera and pop. Tucson fetes native daughter Linda Ronstadt on 75th birthday 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Last weekend alone, the opera was performed in Dayton, Ohio, and at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago. Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Pike, born in London as the only child of two opera singers, had been acting in British television and on the stage when she booked that career-making part. Her 'fantasy characters' can obscure the real Rosamund Pike 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Every so often, when I’m pontificating about opera, in print or in person, a reader or an editor will ask me, “But what exactly is bel canto?” Perspective | What exactly is bel canto? It’s a way of singing and, for some, an addiction. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

This is probably more in line with how masters of the universe behave at the opera. Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Given the brutal subject matter, the opera stays remarkably agile, avoiding sentimentality even as it embraces frank sentiment. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

To hear the prelude to the opera’s second scene, with its brass fanfares and insistent thwacks of deep percussion, you would think the characters were approaching Valhalla, not the modest town of Sant’Eufemia. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

In opera, people spend a lot of time saying relatively little. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Out of them pours music sounding like part of a rock opera, filling the gallery with physically palpable sound and transporting symphonic harmonies. Chelsea Galleries, Like a Box of Chocolates 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Like Philip Glass’s “Satyagraha,” about Gandhi’s early years in South Africa, the opera is conceived as a steadily progressing account of a historical figure’s ideological evolution, dispensing with traditional dramatic tension. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

The company, formed 15 years ago by soprano and actress Pauline Malefane and director Mark Dornford-May, established itself in Cape Town with Bizet's opera. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

A fund-raising campaign that was kicked off in response to the vote to close the opera brought in $2.23 million, a sign of community support at a time when many old-line backers had drifted away. San Diego Opera Downsizes to Survive 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

“The Hours” — a new opera based on the 1998 novel and the 2002 film it inspired — features a redoubtable trio of prima donnas. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Revisiting his triumphs was a reminder of what opera fans are missing right now. The Met Opera Tries to Find Paying Customers in a Pandemic 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

That is what’s wrong with it People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. Noël Coward's wittiest lines – quiz 2013-07-05T12:58:31Z

Like a jumpsuit-clad pied piper, she helps them develop the Ground Control opera, based on the Apollo 11 mission and set to a fantastically eclectic range of astro-music, summoned from a stellar cast of collaborators. International Space Orchestra: the designer taking music into space 2013-06-03T05:30:01Z

And when the count is as charismatic and confidently seductive as Mr. Mattei plays him, this charges the opera with extra tension and lends ambiguity to his pursuit. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

For the rest, the industrious Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, while continuing to work in the operas, put in several other appearances, as a whole or in part. Charlotte Hellekant and John Luther Adams at Spoleto USA 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Anthony Geary is saying goodbye to General Hospital after almost 40 years on the soap opera. Anthony Geary on Leaving 'General Hospital': 'This Seems Like the Ideal Time to Go' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

This opera might be considered an allegory, as in both cases a greedy, lust-filled man left ruin in the wake of his single-minded pursuit. Vespertine company is small but mighty in ‘Lucretia’ 2014-01-11T19:12:28Z

But he also wanted to enrich Slavic opera, with its folkloric elements and rustic colorings. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The quartet “Where Is Evil” binds the opera’s four voices into a tight matrix of counterpoint as the orchestra shifts from startling blasts to patches of elusive harmonies. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Fleming, who will continue to perform, said she was drawn to the opportunity to reimagine the program to better prepare young singers for today’s intensely competitive, rapidly changing opera environment. Renée Fleming to Lead Opera at Aspen 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to understand why the Orpheus myth offered an appealing platform for Gluck to rethink the very essence of opera. Gluck’s revolution: Pacific MusicWorks performs ‘Orphée,’ an opera by Marie Antoinette’s music teacher 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Talk about stage presence and inhabiting the moment in opera: The ovation was tremendous. It’s the Highest-Profile Challenge of an Earnest Tenor’s Career 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

She made her dance debut last September in a production of Pascal Dusapin’s opera “Passion,” also directed by Ms. Waltz. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

Since he was a child, he wanted to write operas — “probably it was a bit weird,” he said, laughing — but he couldn’t find the right musical language, still less a like-minded librettist. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“They talked to me about Europe, about big cities, about a career, about opera houses like Paris and London. I started to dream about this. I got this desire to leave.” Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

Handel had written “Esther” early in his career, but when he tried to produce it later at the theater where his operas were performed, clerics objected to the staging of a biblical narrative. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Last September, the company offered a “drive-in opera experience,” featuring an abridged performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème” broadcast over large screens in a London park. Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The opera charted Mr Mandela's life from his birth to his struggle against apartheid, subsequent incarceration and ended with his inauguration as South Africa's first black president in 1994. Mandela opera axed after three shows 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

This “Magic Flute” has nothing to do with the more famous opera by Mozart, although the story does contain the wondrous instrument of the title. Dance Review: No Mozart, but Plenty of Whimsy 2010-10-01T22:59:00Z

The pandemic hit during rehearsals for Frost’s adaptation of Forensic’s work at the opera house in Hanover, Germany. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

There are so many big moments in this opera, like the storm it opens with, or the “Credo” sung by the villain, Iago. Gustavo Dudamel’s Favorite Part of ‘Otello’ is a Quiet Prayer 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Even if you're unfamiliar with the opera, you need to know that this was the edition chosen, and that it worked. Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z

But he also made whimsical and intellectual works with cultural references to opera and “The Odyssey.” M.T. Liggett, 86, Folk Artist and Provocateur, Is Dead 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

But a night at the opera or the ballet still involves putting on a proper face covering. In New York, Masks Will Not Be Required at the Opera or Ballet 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

But with upheaval comes an opportunity, and the end of excuses, to truly reform opera’s culture — to place anti-racism front and center as the industry rebuilds itself. Opera Can No Longer Ignore Its Race Problem 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

"The characters are so boiled down and the humor is so present I think it does translate to many mediums, whether it's musical, films or operas," Kelly, 27, told Reuters. Roald Dahl's dark 'Dirty Beasts' set to music for children 2014-01-31T17:47:12Z

“I always joke that in writing opera, I really like that I get to write the film score but also make the movie,” he says. Perspective | As the novelty of Zoom wears off, classical music reluctantly embraces its new virtual reality 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

The conductor Ion Marin was sensitive to the musical complexities that Puccini sneaks below the surface of this deceptively lightweight score, his attempt to write the Italian opera equivalent of a wry Viennese operetta. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z

After a run in Omaha, the work opens the season at the Miller Theater, which describes it as the first in a series of chamber operas the Miller will help create. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Thoughtful and riveting, the three works were a perfect illustration of both the variety and the coherence of the opera’s aesthetic these days. Critic?s Notebook: Where Opera Is Stretched Yet Unbroken 2011-07-05T21:30:26Z

Kirschenbaum reigned as the grande dame of a group of hard-core fans who populated standing room at the opera house and would flock to the stage door for autographs. Opera’s Biggest Fan Leaves Behind a Sprawling Time Capsule 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

The fruits of our collaboration, a half-hour operatic monologue called Intolerance, plays in London next week, as part of the Tête à Tête festival of fringe opera. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z

The duo have announced a 40th anniversary tour for Quadrophenia, taking the rock opera on a 36-night tour of North America. The Who go back on the road to play Quadrophenia 2012-07-19T09:27:55Z

The sisters’ friends respected them as ardent and remarkably knowledgeable fans of opera, with a circle of close acquaintances that included several of the world’s leading divas. Ida and Louise Cook, Two Unusual Heroines of the Second World War 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

In life and in the opera, Madikizela-Mandela dismisses as "lunacy" accusations she ordered killings of suspected informants. New opera tells Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's story 2011-04-27T17:31:07Z

“There is always a risk, when a Western opera house is portraying a different culture, that it can make missteps, and that the level of authenticity is not quite as high as it could be.” Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

And you cannot argue that operas tell stories only through music, whereas musicals rely heavily on spoken dialogue. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z

The Puccini opera returned to the Lyric repertory for the first time in nearly two decades Saturday night at the Civic Opera House. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z

The family moved to New York’s suburbs and there were frequent trips into the city to visit museums, hear concerts and watch ballet, theatre and opera. From Sex and the City to Divorce – the television remaking of Sarah Jessica Parker 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jaho considers it destiny that she went on to star in “La Traviata” after falling in love with that opera in her hometown of Tirana, the Albanian capital, at 14. Ermonela Jaho ‘Can Sing Your Music’ 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

Nail bars are universal in their aesthetic; I sipped tea and started flicking through the polish-flecked magazines, when I recognised a familiar laugh among the chatter of Vietnamese soap operas. The Sunday Jeff Goldblum entertained me in a nail salon | Bre Graham 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

The modern soap opera does not appear that much different than it did 15 or 30 years ago. Television: After Some Soaps? Cancellations, Others Adjust 2012-02-19T14:11:22Z

I don’t want to compose exotic music or create exotic opera. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

In the world of opera, there is no greater challenge for a performer than the heroine of Bellini's 1831 masterpiece, "Norma." Soprano Angela Meade conquers 'Norma' 2010-07-11T19:01:00Z

Public sculpture popped up around town, a new art museum opened, and, at the opera house, Currentzis was beginning to attract wider critical attention. Teodor Currentzis Brings His Intense Verdi to New York 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Critics flock to the opera, often without even bothering to see what is playing at the chamber festival. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Festival Draws Musicians but Few Critics 2013-08-05T22:01:54Z

The way Adès pitches the violin writing high up, almost daring the soloist to sustain it, recalls the extreme tessitura for the soprano role of Ariel in his opera “The Tempest.” The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

But Pfanstiehl, who died in 2009, was also a devoted opera fan and theatergoer who longed to find a way for blind audience members to enjoy live performances. ‘He’s picking his nose’: How volunteers help the blind ‘see’ a theater performance 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

None of this is exactly opera news, either. Is it news or entertainment? The fuzziness of modern life gets operatic in JacobTV's 'The News' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

I’ve long been most familiar with this Delibes opera through its famous “Flower Duet” and nothing more; the French kitsch and cringy colonialism put me off. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

“El Amor Brujo” — usually translated as “Love, the Magician,” but rendered here as “Love, Bewitched” — posed the greater challenge: few opera singers, students or otherwise, are also accomplished dancers. Music Review: Two Jilted Lovers Sharing a Stage, but Not Their Men 2011-04-28T21:36:14Z

Though Gershwin called his music-theater classic a “folk opera,” I find it more and more simply a great opera, period. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

As Longborough proves, all you need is a conductor who knows his Wagner inside-out – well, alright, that and an opera house in your garden. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z

This musical ensemble, based in France, is best known for its renditions of Baroque operas. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The center opened in 1971 and a young Diaz, now 81, actually performed at the grand opening of the opera house. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

There may not be a word for it in the common tongue ruling George Lucas' space opera, but here on 21st-century Earth, we know it as sexism. How "Ahsoka" takes the sexist subtext of "Star Wars" and brings it to the fore through Hera Syndulla 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z

If that weren’t enough innovation, he also created “Hard Knocks,” a hit reality show that for 20 years, turned N.F.L. training camp into a soap opera. He Might Be the Most Influential Director You’ve Never Heard Of 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Spirits don’t have to say a word in James’ version; in the opera they sing like everyone else. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

On Monday, that moment was a reminder that while the opera often seems like the story of two generations, it is more like a tale of three: Octavian’s, the Marschallin’s and Faninal’s. Review: Lise Davidsen Shines, and Evolves, in a ‘Rosenkavalier’ Debut 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

That term presupposes an opera that was written for a certain set of conditions and is being performed without them. Gardiner leads pastoral celebration with memorable ‘Orfeo’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

For months when orchestras and opera companies would have dominated the classical calendar, the spotlight shifted to individual performers. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

One notable feature of O’Leary’s St. Louis tenure has been his ability to draw the community into discussions of challenging operas. Washington National Opera lands a star: Timothy O’Leary to become general director 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“My first distant impression was that the opera was so murkily philosophical that it would lack sharp theatrical profile,” Mr. Botstein said. Music: Franz Schreker?s Opera ?Der Ferne Klang? at Bard 2010-07-25T01:32:00Z

Typically, opera seasons are planned five years or more in advance, in a global game of Tetris with artists’ schedules. More Terence Blanchard Coming to Met Opera After Success of ‘Fire’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Noseda, an Italian-born conductor who has worked extensively in opera, boldly draws out the score’s operatic elements, as in his stunning account of the fitful Dies Irae, while vividly conveying its overall organic structure. Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ by Gianandrea Noseda 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z

While the concept of a rock opera based on French author Verne's 1864 sci-fi classic may not instantly appeal to young listeners today, Wakeman believes there is a market for his latest release. Wakeman reworks rock epic Journey to Centre of Earth 2012-11-14T13:58:16Z

Story ballets, like operas, work best when they combine great music with touching aesthetic images and deep narrative truths. Letters: Story Ballet: Dance Me a Story 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Unfortunately, the opera’s climactic event of Daphne’s transformation into a laurel tree is disappointing visually. Schoenberg’s ‘Gurrelieder’ in Full Glory 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

A brief statement from the opera company said it expected talks to continue into the small hours. Met Opera in late union talks 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Weekday start times will move up to 7:30 p.m. from 8, with the exception of especially long operas. ArtsBeat: Metropolitan Opera Announces New Season 2011-02-16T19:10:51Z

His frequent subject was the opera singer Maria Callas, whose voice, face and gestures continued to haunt his imagination. Werner Schroeter, German Film and Stage Director, Dies at 65 2010-04-21T02:25:00Z

I thought it was lovely of the panel to acknowledge there was this new movement in opera but really I thought, and I don't mean this in a nasty way, they had made a gesture. An opera conquest: Don Giovanni chases new audiences 2011-08-17T11:19:17Z

This opera is screaming for a new staging. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

As the opera begins, his two sons, in a struggle for the throne, engage in single combat and both are killed. Muisc: Rare Glimpses of Traetta's 'Antigona' and Strauss's 'Danae' 2011-02-01T12:30:03Z

Antheil’s strongest connection to Joyce’s work was his plan to write a “Ulysses” opera, a project Joyce endorsed. Music Review: A Meandering Thread Becomes James Joyce 2010-10-10T19:42:00Z

Gilbert Blin, the stage director and set designer, brings both of these rival attitudes to life, showing that each opera is as sound dramatically as it is musically. Review: Boston Early Music Festival Makes Monteverdi Its Main Attraction 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Another set, called “La Nilsson,” is being released by Decca and features 79 CDs and 27 operas, including two “Ring” cycles. For Birgit Nilsson’s 100th, New Releases and a $1 Million Prize 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

“The Perfect American,” Philip Glass’ fictionalized opera about the famous animator, imagined a complicated answer to that question. The opera about Walt Disney, and how Long Beach landed the U.S. premiere of 'The Perfect American' 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“If my mother went to the opera to see ‘La Bohème,’ she wouldn’t understand it, and she’s the mother of a tenor. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z

And that is only the new works, which form a marginal part of opera's identity in the contemporary mind. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

“I think for the kids to meet someone like Danielle, who’s beautiful, young, talented, it’s a whole new face for opera,” said Ms. Borgman. ArtsBeat: The Met’s ‘Enchanted Island’ Offers Students a Cultural Refuge 2014-03-17T20:14:16Z

Professional loudmouths like Howard Stern may write off their account as whiny; Harry describes his last few years "like living through a soap opera where everyone else views you as entertainment." Even if Harry and Meghan "win" for Netflix, they lose 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is as if one were looking through a reversed opera glass and through a microscope at the same time. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

If only more opera conveyed the sense that song is a normal means of self-expression. Gardiner leads pastoral celebration with memorable ‘Orfeo’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The opera’s drifting quality ended up feeling too shapeless. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

The resulting publicity inspired plays, films, television series and even an opera. The Unsettling Story of a Broken Marriage in "Effie Gray" 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Now it’s a “folk opera,” well on its way to becoming a full-blown musical. From a single tune to a folk opera, ‘Hangtown Dancehall’ comes to Birchmere

Borrowing a page from the opera and European museums, the Museum of Modern Art will soon begin to experiment with taking its exhibitions into movie theaters. Bringing MoMA's Matisse Show to Movie Theaters 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a perfect story for opera: farcically tragic, utterly excessive. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z

She trained as an opera singer at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

But what is new is the way Wagner mines an entire opera's worth of musical drama from the myriad harmonic implications that this collection of notes opens up. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

The whole opera taken at that speed would have turned into a three-day event but here provided an opportunity to appreciate the orchestra's talent for colour and well-drilled detail. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z

Audience imagination is at a premium; both operas prominently feature a tree, but there was none onstage for either, and there was really no set at all for “Bastianello.” Exploring the silliest and darkest sides of marriage at Wolf Trap Opera 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

He would be as eager to argue with a friend or colleague on authenticity in performing Handel as in discussing the relative merits of the opera of Janacek. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z

No one blames him, or only partly, for the strange nothingness which is ENO's new Lucrezia Borgia, his first go at directing opera. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z

He continues to be one of the most sought-after tenors with the stamina and heft for Wagner and the ardent warmth for Italian opera. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

At the opera house, the audience sits only in the mezzanine. Review: In This One-Man Opera, It’s All in His Head 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

As well as her soap opera stint, she also starred in Mike Leigh's High Hopes and Gary Oldman's Nil By Mouth. EastEnders actress Dore dies at 93 2014-04-14T17:19:24Z

The Dorothy Maynor Singers of the Harlem School for the Arts, which Allen led after her retirement from opera in the late 1970s, combined sweetly in “Every Time I Feel the Spirit.” Review: ‘In Their Footsteps,’ a New York Philharmonic Tribute 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

“We compromised,” said Mr. Foxman, who said he had not seen the opera, but did not believe it was anti-Semitic. ‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“The composers who are writing opera today are writing in a much more accessible style,” he said. A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an example of many operas that idealize a process of peaceful surrender at the end. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

It delves deeply into a part of the American experience not usually documented on the opera stage. Snakes on a stage: Opera focuses on a Pentecostal pastor 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z

It raises questions about race and representation, and shows how differently the opera is regarded in the United States and here in Central Europe. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Lavie: I recently came back from France, where I was really taken with the vibrancy of French space opera. Review | ‘Dune’ is a classic space opera. Let’s talk about other great works in this genre. 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Tonight’s “Younger” includes some tuxedo time at the opera. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Since I saw X-Men, I have seen Captain America, a film about a mad Nazi scientist hellbent on the destruction of civilisation, and Cowboys & Aliens, a horse opera smorgasbord about a 19th-century extraterrestrial invasion. Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

Among his early pieces was the first scene of an opera based on the Perseus myth. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

But until the mid-20th century, most began as opera house “répétiteurs”: coaches who teach singers their roles at the keyboard and play for rehearsals. Antonio Pappano, a Conductor of the Old School, Makes His Carnegie Debut 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“I think the earth revolves in A major, a low A,” Mr. Adès said; thus the talismanic importance of that key in the opera and in Mr. Adès’s subsequent music. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z

The opera opens in the drab kitchen of Hansel and Gretel’s home, with an idle stove and a cupboard that’s empty — except for a rare, and tempting, pitcher of milk on top. Review: The Met’s Holiday ‘Hansel’ Is Surreal (and Timely) 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Apart from the dogs in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen and Helena's I am Your Spaniel aria in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night Dream, there aren't many roles for hounds in opera. Wallace: 'I have a feeling Gromit has a hankering to be a composer himself' 2012-07-26T19:30:01Z

But while cinema is changing opera, opera is also changing cinema, reflects Melissa Keeping, chair of the Event Cinema Association. Opera at the movies 2014-02-22T16:16:34Z

He and Mr. Nézet-Séguin are planning to bring new works to the Met, collaborate with other New York institutions, and sometimes perform works outside of the opera house. Peter Gelb’s Contract Is Extended at the Metropolitan Opera 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Showered with multiple Emmy Awards and other major prizes, "Upstairs, Downstairs" was, yes, a soap opera with overstuffed settees and fine silver tea services. 'Upstairs, Downstairs' sequel on TV; superior original now on DVD 2011-04-06T22:16:04Z

The opera opens outside an airfield in Beijing, where a contingent of Chinese army, navy and air force personnel — dressed in Dunya Ramicova’s costumes, which have a touching workaday look — solemnly sing a chorus. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

The material is adapted from Qu Bo’s novel “Tracks in the Snowy Forest,” the basis for “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” one of eight model operas produced during the Cultural Revolution. ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain,’ Directed by Tsui Hark 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

His stories later inspired Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” Offenbach’s opera “Tales of Hoffmann” and much of Freud’s essay “The Uncanny.” Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The surroundings — a staged opera or a concert in a park — seems not to matter to Ms. Meade. Music Review: The Trees and Fields Are Laced With Arias 2011-07-12T20:32:20Z

Not everyone in these pages is an opera aficionado: “Well, let’s just say that anything’s better than opera,” Martin’s unsympathetic father says at one point. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

He stayed for his Ph.D., with the music historian Paul Henry Lang as his mentor, as he researched early music and 19th-century Russian opera. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In the decades after the composer’s death in 1901, performances of Verdi’s operas began to fester with the most aggressive excesses of the verismo style that was gaining steam in his final years. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

As a result, most major opera houses shunned his work, which some critics found technically impressive but impenetrable. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Each summer since 1996, the Lincoln Center Festival has taken over the campus with visiting theater troupes, dance companies, orchestras, opera companies and performance artists. The 10 Biggest Upheavals of Lincoln Center’s Tumultuous Year 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

He will take the baton for a concert presentation of Henry Purcell’s opera “The Indian Queen” with his new ensemble, Utopia. Amid Global Turmoil, Salzburg Festival Plans a Summer of Reflection 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The composer of "Invisible Cities," the opera that created a sensation in 2013 when staged at Union Station, Cerrone began his song cycle in an otherworldly manner not unlike his opera's undulating instrumental style. 4 emerging composers' works shine in L.A. Phil Green Umbrella

Written in 1935, the opera, a comedy with a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Johnson, is that standard situation of an old man marrying a young woman. Webcast from Munich of Strauss' 'The Silent Woman' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The founders see their mission as mounting English-language productions of large-scale, dramatic works with the goal of, as they put it on their website, “creating new opera nuts.” A Student Startup and Its Outsize Wagnerian Dream 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

As conceived by Mr. Haynes, “Far From Heaven“ is an hommage to Douglas Sirk’s intense movie soap operas of the 1950s, works in which people seemed to think, breathe and talk in Technicolor. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z

While studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London, he visited the Bayreuth festival in Germany, absorbing Wieland Wagner's minimalist opera productions. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z

Most classic operas have no real legal protection. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

Mr. Waltz maintains that the kind of nuanced and precise acting that he honed in the theater and on movie sets can be applied to opera. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

This remarkable opera, first performed in Brussels in 1903, four years after its composer’s death in a cycling accident at 44, is especially deserving. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

It may be that Ms. Young’s opera work informed her approach to the Sixth Symphony, which on Thursday was worthy of its onetime subtitle, “Tragic.” Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

At its final presentation on Sunday, this experimental opera played like a cross between a gallery art show and a black-box theater spectacle. Review: ‘The Force of Things,’ an Indirectly Audible Opera 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

San Francisco put in its new seats just in time for the reopening of the opera and the San Francisco Ballet, which share the stage of the War Memorial. ‘The Opposite of Airlines’: When Larger Audiences Require Fewer Seats 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Opera has selected Ennead Architects to design the renovation and expansion of its lobby, the opera house said on Thursday. Met Opera Names Ennead Architects to Redesign Lobby 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

For most of Mr. Levy’s quicksilver career, his constant companion was his best-known composition, the opera “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

“I am of course saddened not to be doing this iconic opera with Anna,” he said in a statement. Anna Netrebko Pulls Out of ‘Norma’ Productions 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Little and Vavrek manage to make the bleakness work dramatically, in part by ratcheting up the intensity over the opera's entire span. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Campbell, the opera's longtime general and artistic director, officially left the company last week. San Diego Opera reverses decision to close, announces 2015 season 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

In the libretto, the opera opens in a village on the shores of Lake Lucerne, where Tell lives in a tight-knit community under Austrian occupation. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The opera derives much of its power from this intensely personal quality. Music Review: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You?re a Youngster With Issues 2011-06-30T20:57:46Z

The opera libretto is Carroll’s text condensed and fractured. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The selections touched on themes explored in the opera, like the power of dreams for a better future and the metaphor of the tree of knowledge. Critic?s Notebook: For City Opera, Spare Show May Signal Future 2011-06-07T22:00:29Z

Ms. Chin, 53, best known for her boldly inventive opera “Alice in Wonderland,” was born and educated in South Korea. New York Philharmonic Presents an Unsuk Chin Premiere 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The house, as usual, was packed with opera lovers hoping to hear the stars of tomorrow. Music Review: Winners of Grand Finals of Metropolitan Opera Auditions 2014-03-31T21:47:28Z

One barometer beyond the sphere of purely liturgical music was the fate of the Tor di Nona Theater, which Clement IX and Queen Christina of Sweden jointly established as Rome’s first public stage for opera. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z

Gemma: People can get really precious about opera, so it’s easy to ignore how trashy it is. Go to a dive bar, drink beer — listen to opera? 2 writers experience Opera on Tap at Blue Moon | Art Outings 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

The opera is a portrait of a deeply patriarchal culture: Even the basically good men boss their wives around. Review: A Vital and Sweeping ‘Porgy and Bess’ Debuts in London 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

In 2015, the composer Matthew Aucoin emailed the playwright Sarah Ruhl to ask whether she would be interested in working with him on a new opera inspired by the Orpheus myth. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Because a world-class opera company needs a world-class orchestra. That is now in danger.” Chicago Lyric Opera Musicians Walk Out as Season Opens 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Despite Mr. Brook’s success with such endeavors, neither of those operas has vanished from the operatic repertory. Critic?s Notebook: ?Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? on Broadway Is More for Theater Fans 2012-01-21T01:16:06Z

A similar all-embracing metamorphosis is obviously what’s being aspired to in the latest translation of this watershed work, probably the greatest of all American operas. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Bess Claims Top Billing in New Version of Gershwins? Classic 2011-09-01T13:17:56Z

His credits also include the Broadway musicals “Aida” and “Tarzan” and the 2002 revival of “Flower Drum Song,” as well as many opera librettos. David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage Joining Columbia Playwriting Faculty 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Currently touring Europe is an opera about the Spanish conquest of the Americas that is directed by an Angeleno and whose set was conceived by a Los Angeles artist. Three wishes for 2015 from the High & Low 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

In addition to “Norma,” she had performed, to wide acclaim, Donizetti’s Tudor operas at the Met in 2016, a bravura feat that Beverly Sills made famous in the 1970s at New York City Opera. How to Be Medea? Summon Your Anger and Despair, and Hit the Gym. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“An Italian Dream,” the poetic movie shown at the iconic La Scala opera house, was more than an unexpected collaboration between music and fashion. Special Report: 'An Italian Dream' of Shoes and Dance 2010-09-24T18:03:00Z

The season will open in September with Cape Town’s Isango Ensemble performing two shows in repertory: an adaptation of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute” and Shakespeare’s epic love poem, “Venus and Adonis.” The Studio Theatre play that can’t be named — and it’s not ‘Macbeth’

“You have your soccer moms. We have opera moms.” Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society celebrates 60 years 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Not all opera singers have huge, powerful voices. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Frantic drummers, opera singers and dancers disguised as auspicious animals vie for attention in their wake. Hong Kong's Celebration of the Bun 2010-05-17T10:00:00Z

What happened over the subsequent decades to make new operas, and the artists who sang them, seem like participants in a specialized corner of the genre? Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

“I am familiar with Britten’s opera, but I don’t particularly care for it, because it still feels quite European,” Mr. Hosokawa said. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

In 2019, as the Met was preparing a new production of “Porgy and Bess,” I offered a list of eight operas by Black composers, long neglected by major companies, that might enter the repertoire. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Too few dancers are using their eyes to address the various corners of the opera house; too many are aiming performances straight out as if at the rehearsal mirror. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ticket revenues account for an increasingly small percentage of the cost of actually mounting operas. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The first public production of this opera was to have been at the Salzburg Festival in 1944. A Salzburg Festival Rich With Dreams and Power 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

On the mezzanine, booths look down onto the main floor; like opera boxes, these may well become the best seats in the house. The Same, Only Different: Designing a New Union Square Cafe 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

I’ve argued for years that orchestras and opera companies inordinately beholden to standard repertory are not speaking to younger people who are instinctively curious about new, more adventurous work in all of the arts. Classical Music Attracts Older Audiences. Good. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

When the Met’s new rules take effect Jan. 17, people eligible for booster shots will be required to have them to enter the opera house. Met Opera to Mandate Booster Shots for Staff and Audiences 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Holten trades too knowingly, at times, on the narrative disparities between the opera and his film. Mozart: Don Giovanni Juan DVD – review 2012-12-12T16:55:06Z

Not the most obvious place to stage an opera given the cramped confines. Purcell opera performed in cemetery catacombs 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

That the opera endured a shaky adolescence is unsurprising, given that Bellini composed it in an uncharacteristic rush and under commercial duress. Music Review: ‘I Capuleti e i Montecchi’ at Caramoor International Music Festival 2012-07-22T22:07:17Z

The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts. God gave rock'n'roll to you ? but not for this! 2011-04-08T23:05:00Z

Daniel Kramer, an American theater and opera director, has been appointed the artistic director of English National Opera, one of London’s two major opera companies. English National Opera Names New Artistic Director 1465-12-04T05:00:00Z

Yende drew international attention when she won a series of first prizes at the 2009 Belvedere Competition for young opera singers. For soprano Pretty Yende, a career in opera adds up 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Fedora,” a verismo opera set against the backdrop of anticzarist uprisings in Russia in the 1880s, was a hit when it debuted in Milan, praised for its lush score and fast-paced drama. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

He was in the ensemble of the smash hit musical “King Kong,” South Africa’s first jazz opera, composed by the musician and writer Todd Matshikiza and based on the life of a boxing champion. Jonas Gwangwa, Trombonist and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Dies at 83 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Hofmannsthal’s outline suggests that he intended to treat the material wittily and with a light touch; the opera’s subtitle is “A Cheerful Mythology in Three Acts.” Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

Alexander Schulin’s stylish production is alert to the opera’s shifting moods and keeps the many arias dramatically lively without resorting to contrived action. Review: A Spotlight for an Unsung Talent 2010-08-17T15:23:00Z

The text of an opera, its lyrics and story are something like the story of the game as written in a scorer’s book. Rossini’s ‘Cinderella’ on deck at Nationals Park 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

When I first heard about the opera and I found out that there was a fraternity section, I was so excited. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

In 2005, when Bush was a host on Access Hollywood, he accompanied Trump to the set of a daytime soap opera where the businessman was making a cameo. Today Show Addresses Billy Bush's Suspension Over Leaked Donald Trump Tape 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The overlapping runs of two of Mr. Levine’s favorite operas were to have been a highlight of the Met’s 2015-16 season, which was announced in February. The Met's James Levine Won't Conduct New "Lulu" 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Camp Ragnarok Theatre Unleashed presents this comedic soap opera, set at a camp for survivalists, with a new episode each week. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 30-Aug. 6: 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' and more 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

It’s important for any orchestra program at a university the size of the UW to be able to experience playing for a ballet, playing for an opera. 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z

The decision not to tackle the opera's racist undertow, however, and to rewrite the libretto to omit all reference to the fact that Monostatos is meant to be black, remains a mistake. Die Zauberflöte – review 2013-04-17T13:36:34Z

So what of the operas, or would-be operas? The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Met plans to throw open its gates and welcome visitors to the front of the opera house for free on weekdays beginning next month, the company announced Thursday. Come Check Out Our House, Metropolitan Opera Says 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Holten, already a much liked and admired figure at the opera house, was artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera in his native Copenhagen, but also has an international reputation as a director. Eugene Onegin; La traviata – review 2013-02-10T00:06:16Z

Our table also raved about the gluten-free chocolate opera cake with espresso buttercream and candied almonds from the executive pastry chef Diane Yang, a James Beard Award semifinalist for outstanding pastry chef. In a Minneapolis Suburb, French Cuisine, Tradition and Charm 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

“There’s a long, spectacular history of women suffering horribly in opera,” Lang says. Human dissection as opera: It's the REDCAT world premiere of David Lang's 'Anatomy Theater' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Soap operas have been replete with people undergoing plastic surgery to resemble others and evil agents replacing good characters. In the end, `Fringe' was all about identity 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z

It is not the first time opera as taken on divisive real-world subjects. Anna Nicole Smith subject of provocative new opera 2011-02-16T17:19:10Z

The ensemble - one of the world's best orchestras - will play Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony at the opera house to mark the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death. Vienna Philharmonic to play benefit gig for Japan 2011-04-08T12:13:09Z

The guests bring historical and scientific perspectives to the opera that rob it of its, well, operaness. A Luminous ‘Aria Code’ Joins a Meager Field of Classical Music Podcasts 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

At one point in the opera, she stripped to the waist, her back turned to the audience. Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

For instance, Mozart’s passion for opera comes through in all of his music. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

At Sony, where he started in 2009, he presided over a list heavy with crossover artists, but also made interesting choices in opera. Sony Executive to Lead Vienna Opera 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

It is popular, in many opera circles, to demonize interpretive stage direction — the dreaded “Regietheater,” a.k.a. Review | Empowering the wife: ‘Otello’ as domestic drama 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

And that's to talk mostly about his orchestral music: Nørgård's operas, his songs, and his chamber music are all there to discover, too. A guide to Per Nørgård's music 2012-07-30T15:58:34Z

It has been hailed as a triumph for contemporary opera and for Mr. Hosokawa, who is widely seen as Japan’s most prominent living composer. Haunting Unpredictability 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

Played and sung with irresistible propulsion and shining tone, the psalms are the highlights: operas in miniature, with their complex shifts of mood. Classical Playlist: Dvorak, Haydn, Monteverdi and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

But, as this opera’s often-alluring score reveals, Respighi was attuned to works by Puccini, Debussy and Richard Strauss. Review: Diving Into the Lake for a Respighi Rarity at City Opera 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

In 1987, she was named founding director of a new opera house to be built with a $50 million grant from the Japanese government. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Hudson Hall is far from a traditional opera house; with no pit and seemingly indifferent acoustics, it was used in the 19th century for speeches by the likes of Emerson and Susan B. Anthony. Review: A ‘Rodelinda’ Brings Promise of Handel on the Hudson 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

Benjamin and Crimp are one of the most successful opera partnerships of our time. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

But what I am sure about is that a new opera will be born, and everyone involved is feeling very lucky to be a part of this birth. So, what's it like directing an opera at Glyndebourne – with 75 amateurs? 2013-03-07T11:03:08Z

They are also sold at the box office on the night of each performance, though due to the high demand for tickets, advance reservations are recommended. ballet, opera, Pool Party! In Rome, Opera in Ruins 2010-07-11T10:00:00Z

Conducting, a field long dominated by men, did not always seem like a viable career path for Stutzmann, the daughter of opera singers who grew up near Paris. A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The opera house announced the move on Friday. Soprano Netrebko pulls out of "not right" London 'Faust' 2014-02-28T16:42:21Z

LoftOpera, an ambitious young company that presents operas in unusual spaces in Brooklyn, draws much of its appeal from its willingness to break things — among them props, conventions, and the barriers separating audience and cast. Review: LoftOpera’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ With Flying Bottles of Beer and Poison 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Additionally, sometimes controversially, Mr. Gelb has sought to dust off the opera’s crusty image by updating the repertory and signing new stars. Going Hollywood: In New York, the Ballet and Opera Are Stuffy No More 2012-09-28T23:37:02Z

The acting in the productions can be creaky, and the fights often look fake, but it’s mostly fun to watch these 400-year-old soap operas rip along. Review | Two 400-year-old soap operas rip along in stagings by Brave Spirits Theatre 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

In the late 19th and early 20th century, opera stars posed for hours in a studio, fully costumed, to please their public. When opera singers were media stars (and when Instagram wasn't a thing) 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

State financing to the opera house was cut by 7 million euros in 2012, and no additional support is expected this year, La Scala said in January. Crisis forces Italy's La Scala to cut back on productions 2013-05-23T16:37:22Z

The nominating committee appeared to have run for the earplugs after hearing “American Idiot,” the rock opera adapted from the smash pop-punk album, giving it an inexcusably chintzy three nominations. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z

This outrageous opera, a savage political parody, with a libretto by Mr. Davies, was recorded and released in the mid-’90s. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Opera and the Theater Have a Back and Forth “No Hotel,” the new opera by the multidisciplinary cabal Object Collection, lays its figurative cards on the table in relatively short order. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z

A given opera might allow her to present a single aspect of herself, she said, but a recital “allows me to showcase more of me.” South African soprano Pretty Yende plans a D.C. recital of classical music and zarzuela

Over the opera’s 72 minutes, the interrogation becomes increasingly unreliable. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Normally, in opera, you get these characters one time,” Mr. Einhorn said. An Operatic Rarity Picks Up Where Mozart and Rossini Left Off 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

IT used to be that, at certain times of the day, soap operas were pretty much the only thing you on television. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z

A sofa soap opera ensued in the tabloids while negotiations took place to keep Chiles on board to front the show four days a week. That Friday feeling again for Chris Evans as BBC makes him The One Show host for one day a week 2010-04-12T20:01:00Z

While some high notes, particularly toward the opera’s end, sail out like sunshine, and while he’s an effortlessly noble presence, Vogt’s sound is ever more an acquired taste. Review: Wagnerian Comedy Is No Joke in the Met’s ‘Meistersinger’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

In some ways, Racette sees the opera stage as an escape from politics, Twitter and the barrage of the 24-hour news cycle. The most fearless woman in opera? Patricia Racette on coming out, Trump, nudity and the demands of 'Salome' 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

In Girard’s interpretation, the focus of the opera is more on Senta than on the Dutchman himself. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Part of this is down to the fact that, unlike Nicholls's Brünnhilde, the inhabitants of important roles - Wotan, Siegfried and Alberich all among them - change from opera to opera. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z

After all the work that went into the opera, the glowing reception to the premiere was “such an exhilarating experience,” he said. ‘Blue,’ an opera on police violence named best new opera, opens in Seattle soon 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

This was especially welcome in the solos for tenor and alto, which, when given over to indulgent opera singers, can undo the work’s air of otherworldly mystery. The Berlin Radio Choir Sings Rachmaninoff’s Vespers 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Berlin’s 178 museums, seven symphony orchestras and three opera houses are once again up and running. Berlin, Back in Full Swing 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Yet I was reminded of what the opera critic Michael Scott wrote of the great soprano Lotte Lehmann: “And her faults, what of them?” Review: At 53, an Effortless Return to Dance ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

We last spoke for a story about the influence of Berg’s “Wozzeck” and, like that opera, your “Hamlet” has a big crescendo on a B as well. The ‘Hamlet’ Chord: A Composer’s Music of Indecision 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z

And despite its title, winter is not the focus of his first opera, “The Snow Queen,” which has its English-language premiere at the Bavarian State Opera here on Dec. 21. A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The opera begins with Priam and Hecuba deciding to have their infant son Paris killed, because Hecuba has dreamed that her child will cause his father's death. King Priam, a pacifist's opera, can still shed light on the trauma of war 2012-05-24T09:32:34Z

“The liner notes on the back would tell you the opera. But I couldn’t open the seal, or buy the records.” Ed Dixon, now playing multiple roles for ‘Cloak and Dagger,’ has a past full of transformations

You and Sellars recently collaborated on "The Indian Queen," a Henry Purcell opera about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, which has toured Europe and Russia. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

If the sequences with the Sodbuster, as the opera dubs him, retain spooky force, it’s largely because of Mr. Slattery’s Miles, whose fear is underplayed and feels very real. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

There were also two surprises: a performance by the American Pops Orchestra and a duet by Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell and his bride of one year, opera singer Larisa Martínez. How Washington’s power brokers are adapting to the New Normal — and that includes how they party and raise money 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

It is a pity that the growing audience for opera in Beijing was denied the chance to experience and evaluate it on its own. Opera Review: Hong Kong, Not Beijing, Sees an Opera Laced With Revolutionary Zeal 2011-10-18T13:00:19Z

But that must not keep opera companies from leading audiences in new directions. Music Review: Bernard Uzan, Director, Adds Context to Seattle?s ?Attila? 2012-01-26T22:27:32Z

“In these chamber operas, people are sometimes just a few feet or even inches from the singers,” she said. At Seattle Opera, immersive ‘The Combat’ explores interfaith romance in 50 minutes 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

There are several recordings, but it’s safe to say that “Fanciulla” is the least popular of Puccini’s mature operas. Review | ‘Girl of the Golden West’ rides high at Strathmore 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

The Aix Festival in France is planning to present her new opera “Innocence” in July, conducted by Susanna Malkki. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in May 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

It's not every day that someone tells you, "Drop whatever you're doing and go see an opera about human trafficking." Stop what you're doing and go see an opera about human trafficking 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

But in its budget and international influence, the Met is the largest performing-arts institution in the United States and should set the standard for excellence and innovation in opera. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

The issue of India’s Muslim minority is so fraught that until recently soap operas ignored it. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

There was a time when theatregoers regularly wore black tie and evening gowns – a practice still in operation at certain opera houses – but today's theatres are more than content with casualwear. Valentino thinks British theatregoers too casual 2012-11-29T16:02:16Z

Now Lyric, like other major American opera companies, as well as symphony orchestras, theater troupes and many sports teams, is grappling with a long-term decline in season subscribers. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Before “Desperate Housewives” Ms. Longoria played the mentally ill Isabella Braña, a supporting role, on the daytime soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” An Emerging Hispanic Voice Defends Her ‘Maids’ 2013-06-24T22:13:04Z

There she was encouraged to try opera, and in 1965 she was back on a New York stage, singing the role of Bess in a New York City Opera staging of “Porgy and Bess.” Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” may be based on the Greek myth of a singer capable of beguiling even hell’s furies, but the opera has long been catnip to choreographers. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Opera, singing and conducting at major opera houses around the world. Placido Domingo staying with Los Angeles Opera through 2019 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

And more than one stage director has moved the opera to a contemporary setting — including Jürgen Flimm’s powerful production, set in a 20th-century prison camp, which returns to the Metropolitan Opera on March 16.  Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

His opera was workshopped for years, with everyone fully informed about what the libretto contained from the start. Lee Hall's Beached: what really went on? 2011-07-07T17:17:50Z

“I not only didn’t have the opera performed, but I didn’t get a dime out of it.” Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Ranked the world's oldest opera singer by the Guinness World Records, Luo was born in June 1912 and began performing in 1930. World's oldest opera singer dies at age 98 2010-07-17T09:31:00Z

When Meredith Monk’s multimedia opera “Quarry” was first performed, in 1976, it posed a question for critics. Meredith Monk’s Fantasy of Fascism, Newly Restored 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

That proof was a gripping performance, more committed than any I have knowledge of in any Mozart opera, from a multicultural cast that compelled belief. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

There were self-contained arias here, including one that ended neatly enough to garner applause — a rarity in Prototype-style contemporary opera — as well as moments of disarming pastoral prettiness. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Think of the old Kirk Douglas film “Young Man With a Horn” transfigured into a cosmic, German modernist opera. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z

In the program notes, Kosky comes up with connections between the operas — approaches to departure and arrival, to the dynamics of lovers, to the concept of a lost Eden, across centuries. L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The music is the sounding image of the opera's central theme. Parsifal: Wagner's 'Buddhist piece' 2011-02-10T22:00:00Z

“Fidelio” was the first opera performed in Germany after the end of World War II; the prisoner’s chorus, an ode to freedom, has become a veritable anthem. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Reimann’s magnum opus is as ruggedly atonal as any late-twentieth-century opera, and even at the Met, which boasts a sophisticated audience, such a performance would cause at least a modest number of intermission walkouts. We’ll Never Have Paris 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Though he admits to enjoying the “slings and arrows and diva hissy fits and conductors smashing batons” of the opera world, he acknowledges that it has “distanced me from the pop world.” Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

While the repertory Mr. McGegan explores with the orchestra extends well into the 19th century, Baroque opera is a specialty of his. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Joins Mostly Mozart 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is to Jones's huge credit that she brings comparable tonal colouring to the WNO orchestra's playing; making things sound so fresh and immediate in such a familiar opera shows a remarkable musical perception. La Traviata ? review 2012-02-13T17:14:00Z

In the emotional and sexual roller coaster of soap operas, Agnes Nixon, creator of “All My Children,” juggled the conventions of the form with her mission to explore deeper issues from new perspectives. Mary Fickett, a Pillar of ?All My Children,? Dies at 83 2011-09-12T23:58:43Z

The process of working in opera was, however, inspiring. Perspective | This legendary street artist has done walls, shoes and Bieber albums. Now he’s trying opera. 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

But in the end, indeed brings opera to the interior, and the transcendence of those last minutes takes the film to heights that even Lean did not think of attaining. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z

But even as workers painted walls and moved in furniture, the opera world couldn’t wait. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z

With some operas, the audience may struggle to stay emotionally involved in the story playing out on stage. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Her departure is a watershed moment for her extravagant, expensive art form, which is always imagining itself in trouble — what is opera about except crises? — but may really be in peril this time. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

When major figures in opera die, the Metropolitan Opera sometimes pays tribute to them with memorials at the opera house. A Memorial for Jessye Norman at the Met Opera, Where She Reigned 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It was then, during the Olympics, that it was decided to form an opera company.” How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

A little digging could likely find but a degree or two of operatic separation in even the third notable opera of 2016, Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel,” based on Luis Buñuel’s classic film. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

In 1922, Janacek began writing this short opera about love, death and freedom among the animal and human denizens of a forest. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Stages a Musically Glorious ‘Vixen’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Andrew Mellor, an opera journalist who specializes in the Nordic countries, said that Miskimmon was successful in Denmark, with several innovative productions that became talking points. For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It's a remarkable achievement, the most penetrating and imaginative version of Berg's unfinished opera yet seen in these islands. Lulu – review 2013-02-10T17:30:27Z

“Fella” also demands all-terrain singing voices, which can inhabit the Alpine heights of opera as well as the plateaus of pop musicalese. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z

“Our donors are passing away; I don’t know if people are not being raised with opera in the United States any longer, but we are not selling out the operas anymore. Not even close.” Death Knell for Opera in San Diego After 49 Years 2014-04-13T21:46:55Z

New operas have a £75 top price, with standing room at £4. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

Seattle Opera's upcoming world-premiere production of "Amelia" is generating considerable interest in the opera world. 'Terribly Happy' and Arlo Guthrie are among Seattle's arts highlights 2010-04-21T23:03:00Z

But it’s hard to listen to this eloquent, passionate opera and hear it as merely a job that Mozart got through. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

Though a true ensemble piece, the opera focuses on Blanche de la Force, a young woman treated like an adored child by her good father, the Marquis de la Force, and protective brother, the Chevalier. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

While there are persuasive arguments to be made for each, Verdi is clearly more favored today; “La Traviata” was the most performed opera worldwide in the past five years. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

She worries about the next generation of opera singers. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The opera begins in a watery blur, with a choir, sounding simultaneously floating and precise, chanting fragments of Woolf’s classic opening line: “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z

The company has also increased outreach to Chicago schools and communities new to opera with Lyric Unlimited, an ambitious education program. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The singer is still cagey about what she means by "psycho opera", but a new press release puts Stop the Virgens into context. Karen O reveals new 'psycho opera' details 2011-08-26T10:59:19Z

For a piece in which emotions ostensibly run high — everyone, as usual in opera, is always in love or in hate with everyone else — the emotional power is strangely muted. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“There was an aura and allure that went with clutching a bouquet of flowers, and something about that has remained at the opera house.” The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

That would be like watching a soap opera where someone didn’t die in a horrible grisly accident every Christmas Day. Screen kisses: why actors are now snogging mannequins, mirrors and their own lovers on set 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

And much as Leoncavallo’s opera reveals the fluid boundaries between art and life, Ms. Jaho says she believes that a singer must be “real onstage” in order to serve the music. Ermonela Jaho ‘Can Sing Your Music’ 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z

Last weekend, while hosting VOX 2010, the company’s annual contemporary American opera lab at ’s Skirball Center, Mr. Steel seemed in his element. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z

His mixture of flamboyant, gender-bending minimalism and stylised melodrama, inspired by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera and the music of German romanticism, often juxtaposed with popular song, blurred the distinction between art and kitsch. Werner Schroeter obituary 2010-04-22T17:34:00Z

He was featured as the villain Hector Wilson on the soap opera “The Edge of Night.” John Rensenhouse, Darren Sextro 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

The festival, also known as the Richard Wagner Festival, dates back to 1876 and consists of opera performances such as "Tristan und Isolde" composed in the 19th century. Wagner's grandson dies at age 90 2010-03-22T17:09:00Z

Plans for full-scale operas to resume are on hold, since Italy’s current virus-containment measures would preclude so many artists being on stage at once, Meyer said. La Scala plans 4 July concerts in post-lockdown reopening 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Sweeney Todd” may be a musical theater piece, but Stephen Sondheim’s score has more sophistication than many contemporary operas. Mozart, Made New: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

The culprit may be the limitations of musicology, a stubbornly conservative discipline that tends, like this book, to admit only grudgingly that operas continued to be made after Britten. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

What was most striking about his regime was its determined exclusion of any other Wagner from staging opera at Bayreuth. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

Perhaps one clue exists in post-Meyerbeer developments in French opera, which witnessed a shift to more intimate, character-oriented works that were emblematic of changing tastes in other countries as well. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

Thomas is black and Otello — or Othello, the title role of the Shakespeare play on which the opera is based — is black, or at least a Moor. Perspective | Russell Thomas is much more than a black tenor. Now, he’s tackling ‘Otello’ and the field’s stereotypes. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The money will be used to present a new series of contemporary operas - including Getty's Usher House - to be performed in the UK for the first time. Opera chief defends Getty show 2012-10-15T13:53:45Z

After being overlooked by U.S. opera houses, Lear won fame in Vienna singing the title character in Alban Berg's "Lulu." Opera star soprano Evelyn Lear dies at 86 in Md. 2012-07-03T20:49:20Z

As a comedian, he kills every night; as an opera star, she dies. Review: Marina Abramovic Summons Maria Callas in ‘7 Deaths’ 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Broadway and opera have a long history together. Opinion | Opera and Broadway have a fruitful relationship. If only opera fans understood it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

"Now, by increasing the public's interest in opera with our recent artistic successes and public initiatives, we are confident that we will thrive in the future, as well." NY's Metropolitan Opera reports 2009 fiscal woes 2010-06-17T01:24:00Z

Gone was Leonard Slatkin, who presided over Monday night's season premiere of the Verdi opera with a striking lack of coordination between the orchestra and singers. New conductor rescues the Met's 'Traviata' 2010-04-04T16:16:00Z

"I Lombardi," Verdi's fourth opera, is full of wonderful music, much of it pointing ahead to his later masterworks, but it's hobbled by a ridiculous plot involving revenge, patricide and the First Crusade. Tenor Fabiano shines in Verdi's `I Lombardi' 2013-04-09T19:46:08Z

Building your own digital library of opera on video is more frustrating. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

"A life in hell can still aspire to bliss," is the opera's concluding message. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Now its cultural life is booming, and nowhere more so than in its three world-class opera houses. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

The normal convention is that instrumentalists in an opera sit behind a music stand. Turning Under Milk Wood into an opera 2014-04-04T07:15:10Z

The idea is to help dance companies, opera troupes, orchestras and theaters develop new audience-building programs and study the results. $52 Million Push to Help Arts Institutions Find New Audiences 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The Hong Kong Heritage Museum will open an exhibition later this month on Lam Kar-sing, 78, a veteran performer and the founder of two opera troupes. Music: Chinese Opera Gets a Modern Edge 2011-07-18T11:30:06Z

“What I don’t like in Italian opera is all this tears and heart,” Mr. Muti said. Critic?s Notebook: More Drama for an Opera, Not All of It From the Singers 2011-04-14T22:02:56Z

The live opera and the film sections tell slightly different stories but the sentiment is the same – it's all about a flashy, corporate bunch of suits learning to show their human side. On stage and on screen: making our opera The Answer to Everything 2013-04-23T12:10:23Z

Her captivation by opera was such that in 2016, she was cast as the comic Duchess of Krakenthorp in the Washington National Opera’s “The Daughter of the Regiment.” Perspective | Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave her life to the country — and her heart to the performing arts 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Joudeh, who spoke with me at a cafe here near the ballet and opera, first encountered ballet when he was 8. Syrian Dancer Flying, Looking for Freedom (Landing in Amsterdam) 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jeremiah also brought impressive power and intensity to Moto Osada’s sibylline “Four Nights of Dream,” the only opera with a male protagonist. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z

Grand scale and high costs have made it unusual to set down full operas in the studio, as opposed to capturing live performances. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

CE: French Baroque opera also seems to rely upon different vocal types from those of Italian opera seria. Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z

Compressing the important events of Tolstoy’s thousand pages into an impressively swift two hours and change, Mr. Wright turns a sweeping epic into a frantic and sublime opera. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z

It is a post-apocalyptic opera of sorts, with blasts of rams' horn, dog barks, scraping swords, machetes. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

Saturday, moreover, was just as tony an occasion as any opera night at the Salzburg Festival, for which black tie or formal versions of traditional Austrian peasant dress are common. Gustavo Dudamel, Cecilia Bartoli and a grim, bizarre 'West Side Story' in Salzburg 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

He is surely the only record producer to whom a great opera has been dedicated, and he will record Adams’ “Doctor Atomic” in London next month with the composer conducting. Philip Glass, Pat Metheny, k.d. lang, Audra McDonald all turn out for a tribute to a Nonesuch guy 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

She is often seen at the opera, and I hope she was. Work/life balance? For 82-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, work and life aren’t in conflict 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Well before opening night, predictions circulated in the opera world and on opera chat lines that this “Lulu,” by the Bulgarian director Vera Nemirova, was going to be another Eurotrash outrage. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z

But for three decades, she was best known as the pillar of a popular soap opera. Mary Fickett, a Pillar of ?All My Children,? Dies at 83 2011-09-12T23:58:43Z

“We worked to make a show that I think is beautiful, grand, new and modern, that brings opera into the future.” Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

I won’t give away the opera’s resolution, other than to say that the Boy, now king, has learned his lessons all too well. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mancini grew up with his parents and four sisters in Richmond, Va., and he caught the horror bug watching the proto-queer Gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows.” Chucky Returns to Terrorize TV. His Creator Couldn’t Be Happier. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Donations to college football teams, opera companies and rare-bird sanctuaries are eligible for the same tax deduction as a donation to a homeless shelter,” complains Quigley. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Nézet-Séguin sports a black-and-white hooded jacket modeled on a vintage Everlast boxing robe for Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” an opera about the boxer Emile Griffith that had its Met premiere this month. The Maestro Wore Blue: Bringing Pizazz to the Pit at the Met 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

So was the sorry tale of the opera’s neglect. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

Soon after, the Met dismissed him as well — the latest #MeToo shake-up to rattle the opera world. When News Upstages an Opera Performance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Weill and Anderson were working on a musical based on “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and sketching an opera of “Moby-Dick” when Weill died in 1950 at the age of 50. Rare Reprises for an Unlikely Collaboration 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z

Though he produced more serious than comic operas, it's the latter that dominate the modern repertory. La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z

His opera Where the Wild Things Are , written in collaboration with Maurice Sendak, is an adaptation of the book and far superior to the recent film. My hero Oliver Knussen by Adam Foulds 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Spanish is still a language rarely sung in mainstream opera houses. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

But a few months later when the opera moved to the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, Klinghoffer's home town, it touched a raw nerve. New York's Met Opera braces for 'Death of Klinghoffer' protests 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Ashley’s operas are so dissimilar to conventional works in the genre. The Pleasures and Perils of Reviving a Robert Ashley Opera 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Still, the differences between his staging and Ms. Zambello’s reveal some of the current thinking in opera production. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

Still, I’m not sure there will ever be a right time for this silly opera. Music Review: Love Beats Science in a Spoof by Menotti 2011-08-14T22:00:12Z

“Death and the Powers” is the latest opera by the American composer and inventor Tod Machover. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z

The Met has not had so many recent operas on a single year’s lineup since the early 1930s, even if that number is notable only in the context of the stubbornly backward-looking world of opera. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

Opera North's so-called "austerity Ring" continues to astonish, nowhere more so, perhaps, than with Siegfried, sometimes dubbed the cycle's scherzo, and the ­opera in which interpretative and ­directorial inspiration has a habit of faltering. Siegfried – review 2013-06-18T17:08:25Z

Among the people the Dutchman meets at the bar is Daland — in the libretto a sea captain and the father of the opera’s heroine, Senta, but here a clean-cut, middle-class man. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Ravel's two one-act operas are usually thought of as companion pieces, though they are poles apart in tone. Ravel Double Bill – review 2012-08-06T17:17:20Z

The casual misogyny of Strauss’s only opera buffa — a work that unfolds like a love letter to Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti — was hardly a point of controversy when it premiered in Dresden in 1935. Review: ‘The Silent Woman,’ an Opera About Putting on an Opera 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

He enjoys opera, especially Wagner, and with his wife, Karen Haber, regularly takes long trips, sometimes to science fiction conventions, often to Paris. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

“The population of opera lovers is prone to conspiracy theories,” Gelb said when I asked him about these critiques. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z

Nowadays, instead of gladiator watchers from all over the Roman Empire, opera lovers line the stone benches during the summer to see performances like Verdi’s “Aida.” 36 Hours in Verona, Italy 2013-06-07T18:48:09Z

It is heady stuff for a 14-year-old, even Mozart, who focused the intense plot through the distilling process of the dominant operatic form of his time: opera seria, an imposing, rule-driven series of arias. Music Review: From Milan to New York in 240 Years 2011-05-20T03:04:12Z

As part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn., the Mark Morris Dance Group will perform “Acis and Galatea,” a staging of the Handel opera. Escape the heat with gravity-defying dancers 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The Borgias have inspired, among other works, a Donizetti opera, a novella by Alexandre Dumas and Mario Puzo’s last book, a history of the Borgias as the “first” crime family. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

One protester invoked the last line of the opera: “There is no quota on freedom.” Music Review: ?Kommilitonen!,? a Juilliard Opera Premiere - Review 2011-11-17T23:15:52Z

The Met and leading opera houses in Zurich and Munich have declined to hire her, despite her attempts to distance herself from Mr. Putin. Anna Netrebko, Shunned in Much of the West, to Sing in Monte Carlo 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

In January, the former director of Valencia’s opera house was briefly detained by Spanish police, as part of an investigation into financial irregularities there. Málaga, Spain’s Self-Appointed New Arts Hub 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

I suppose it's the reason I like big live theatre, and opera, and big orchestras. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z

There are also a host of practical considerations in transferring the two-hour opera’s video projections, animation and lighting to places like a park in Port-au-Prince. Harlem Stage Prepares to Export Its Own Opera 2013-07-28T21:33:45Z

Mr. Moll’s 6-foot-2 frame was made to measure for many of the basso profundo roles he came to own on the stages of the world’s leading opera houses. Kurt Moll, German Basso Profundo, Dies at 78 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Japanese scientist Masanori Niimi won the medicine prize for his finding that mice who listened to opera after heart transplants survived longer. “Beer goggles,” and opera-loving mice win the Ig Nobel Prizes 2013-09-14T19:00:00Z

Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance Austin-based composer Graham Reynolds’ experimental chamber opera salutes the Mexican revolutionary; part of the LAX Festival. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 8-15: 'The Hubble Cantata,' 'The Consul' and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

Ms. Shen sings in the traditional pinched, nasal style of Chinese opera, her voice rising and falling with an oboe’s penetrating tone and an erhu’s haunting slur. Music Review: ‘Feng Yi Ting’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-27T21:15:25Z

Here was an audaciously original opera with a compelling musico-dramatic arc. Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z

Next season he directs Thomas Adès’s exhilarating 2004 opera, “The Tempest.” Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

But his withdrawal this season from the Met’s new production of Berg’s “Lulu,” an opera that he brought into the company’s repertoire in 1977, disappointed ticket buyers and left the Met scrambling for replacements. Amid Tension, Met and James Levine Mull Last Bow 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

All three sections are, fundamentally, backstage soap operas accented with comedy and a little bit of mysticism, as biblical imagery bleeds from the stage into life and vice versa. | 'Passion Play': Sarah Ruhl?s Play Within a Play at Irondale Center 2010-05-13T03:53:00Z

Scoff as one might at the comparison between HBO’s crown jewel and an Americanized telenovela airing on basic cable, both series are powered by the basic mechanics of soap opera. “Queen of the South” and “Claws”: Sometimes bad can be very, very good 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

I’ve been trying to think of a metaphor – an opera singer teaching nursery rhymes? In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Hearing a great new voice for the first time, and watching an opera character leap to life, is the kind of experience fans cherish. A brilliant new voice gleams in Seattle Opera's 'Fidelio' 2012-10-15T00:36:04Z

Seattle Opera’s education program also distributed the short youth opera “Earth to Kenzie” online last year while touring school productions were on hold. How Seattle Opera became one of few companies nationwide to pull off an all-digital season 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

West was almost born to be doing this - his parents, Maura West and Scott DeFreitas, are actors who met on the soap opera "As the World Turns." The 2 Ralphies in 'A Christmas Story' speak up 2012-11-14T13:05:10Z

Because the Munich opera company is state-run, rehearsals were allowed to continue even after most private employees in Germany were told to stay at home. The Coronavirus Derails Marina Abramovic’s Maria Callas Opera 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

“So there’s not a single bar that’s the same, even though it’s definitely the same opera.” An Opera About Harvey Milk Finally Finds Itself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the opera, a disgruntled animator fired by Disney’s company attacks Walt for taking credit for the work of his army of artists. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Du Bois, a devotee of Wagner’s operas, and the Chinese scholar of Sanskrit Ji Xianlin. Review | Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Ginsberg's text is awkwardly and inaudibly declaimed – surprising, considering Glass made his name writing operas. BBCSSO/Nicholas Collon – review 2012-05-27T11:47:53Z

“I like to ask questions beyond the historical context,” said André, who finds powerful connections between contemporary experiences and the themes of classical opera. Seattle Opera may have the country’s only opera scholar in residence, helping make the art form more diverse and relevant 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

It just all never engages in the way that any opera based on such a source should. The Lady from the Sea – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-30T17:30:01Z

She’d recently been to a pop-up “tango opera” inside a “little brownstone on Forty-sixth Street.” The Grande Dame of the Perfume Industry Turns Ninety-Five 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner adapted melodic ideas from an unfinished chamber piece to write "Idyll," then took from the latter some themes that found their way into his opera "Siegfried" years later. SSO plans a romantic weekend with conductor Jun M?rkl, German classics 2010-05-05T22:17:00Z

Called a “phantom opera” by its creators, the work is a kind of meditation on colonialism, loosely based on the story of Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, a brutal British Army commander in Africa; Ione directs. The New Season of Classical Music: A ‘Fake News’ Opera and Sound Quilts 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Watching it brought to mind another recent opera, “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” — a similarly well-intentioned meeting of styles, in this case involving jazz, that ended up stagnant, truly satisfying to fans of neither art form. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

As Glass’ friendliest major American opera company, Los Angeles Opera mounts this acclaimed new production, created by the English National Opera. 11 don't-miss classical picks: 'Breaking the Waves,' John Adams' 70th, Philip Glass' 'Akhnaten' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

A very little text makes for a fairly long opera – and Angels is very long and it's got a lot of plot. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

The composer Kaija Saariaho, who died earlier this month at 70, spent much of her career expecting not to write an opera. Review: Revisiting a Kaija Saariaho Opera Days After Her Death 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Officially, opera houses say they are concerned about safety. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

“I think there are many people who are like how I was initially, not knowing the meaning of the opera, or Italian,” says He. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

Covent Garden is a fantastic exception because it maintains basic principles for what opera needs to shine. Royal Opera’s Next Leader Keeps Quality in Mind and Home in His Heart 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

The company has produced works such as "Crescent City" and "Invisible Cities," the latter of which was a multimedia opera that took place at Union Station in downtown L.A. Yuval Sharon residency to fortify L.A. Philharmonic's opera profile 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“Frozen 2” has been a huge box office hit so far; could there be another snow-themed opera on the way? A Master of Winter Writes His First Opera: ‘The Snow Queen’ 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The straightforward production, by Cecilia Ligorio, dealt astutely with the question of how to characterize Cortés, a figure now deplored as a brutal colonialist but revered as a hero when the opera was written. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Uptown often meets downtown at Le Poisson Rouge, which on this occasion hosted an event featuring music by Nico Muhly, whose opera “Two Boys” will open at the Metropolitan Opera in October. Music Review: Nico Muhly Previews His ‘Two Boys’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-15T20:05:23Z

A portrayal of Joan of Arc’s childhood as a starkly inventive, ecstatically energetic rock opera, filmed on location in raw and rustic landscapes. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The thing about going to performances of obscure French operas is that you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get. Subversive savages in a musical digestif 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

As in Season 1, it’s soap opera presented with intelligence, taste and high production values, and it’s a pleasure to watch, though the pleasure is perhaps more lulling than it is exciting or truly moving. Review: ‘The Crown’ Season 2 Takes the Queen From Crisis to Crisis 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

One of the country’s most important figures in the arts, Miller enjoyed a decades-long career that encompassed theater, television and opera. UK theater director, producer Jonathan Miller dies at 85 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The unfinished Liszt opera — written largely in shorthand, with only one act completed — languished in a Weimar archive for nearly 170 years. Listen to the First Glimpse of a Long-Lost Liszt Opera 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

“The truth is I am an award-winning international opera singer who has only been hired once at an A-house in the United States.” That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Nick Wall/Nick Wall Photography New York socialite Florence Foster Jenkins made a living as an opera singer, despite not sounding like one. The 75 films we're most excited about in 2016 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

But at heart, “Mercy Street,” which counts Ridley Scott and the “E.R.” writer David Zabel among its executive producers, is a medical soap opera — “Grey’s Anatomy” with crinolines — and that’s the show’s most entertaining aspect. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Nor is it a classical piece or an opera; stylistically, the music takes in everything from percussive piano to commercial pop. London Road: Murder, they sang 2011-04-10T20:46:00Z

Berlin's Deutsche Oper said the singer of opera and artistic songs died Friday at his home in Bavaria in southern Germany. German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead 2012-05-18T15:41:12Z

Part of the opera's unforgettable opening tableau is Don Giovanni's murder of the commendatore, Donna Anna's father, whose ghostly statue comes to claim Giovanni's soul at the end of the second act. Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero 2010-07-01T21:01:00Z

He refashioned a bathroom into a darkroom and bunked near it, with hangers for his few clothes, a turntable and a collection of opera records. Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol’s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s expanded rapidly, from Britten chamber operas to full-blown Puccini played in a permanent tent-like structure on the property with a full-size orchestra pit. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend

Last fall, Montgomery premiered a part of the opera in Little Rock. Folk opera based on Bill Clinton to open in New York 2011-06-18T12:33:42Z

From “Mosè” to “Moïse” the opera gained an act, characters were renamed, some arias were cut, others were taken from one character and given to another, and new music was added, including a ballet. Music Review: ?Mo?se et Pharaon? at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-01T23:50:57Z

Wieland's son Wolf-Siegfried, for instance, launched an abortive career as an opera director before taking to architecture and retiring to Majorca. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

What this crowd was getting was not only mainly core classical — the “Tristan” prelude again, as well as one movement of the lively but lengthy Berlioz — but also opera. Review | From the NSO, with love: Noseda and orchestra in Valentine’s Day programs 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Dance Pleasure's Progress Will Tuckett visits the dark underbelly of 18th-century England, mixing dance and opera in this homage to William Hogarth. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z

The performances here are being recorded for a commercial LP, the first time that’s happened for a new opera at Santa Fe since 1996. Santa Fe Opera breathes new life into epic Civil War tale ‘Cold Mountain’ 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

There's also the long trend – as relevant in opera as in other art forms – for productions to be deconstructed and reinterpreted, along with the steadily increasing importance of the director. Opera reviews: why does no one write about the music? 2011-03-01T12:56:43Z

"Partenope," the 27th of Handel's 49 operas, is more crazy stuff. Hidden code of two great composers deciphered 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Apparently, quite a bit when you consider the number of Anglophiles, prestige-hounds, royal soap opera addicts and ugly divorce rubberneckers among us. 'Wolf Hall' a thrilling high-stakes game in Henry VIII's court 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The conservative side of me regrets these trends in opera. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z

More seriously he agrees with Mr. Gelb in believing that his production could attract new audiences to opera. ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z

It’s a deliberately provocative gesture that helped make “Salome” the most scandalous opera of its time. It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

That kind of virtue, however, doesn’t work in the world of opera. From TIME?S Archive: Maurice Sendak on Children?s Books 2012-05-09T20:31:54Z

It’s rare to see an opera so focused on women and their relationships to one another, and rarer still to see those relationships explored so profoundly. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

“I’m not interested in another big opera job,” he said in a telephone interview from London. Antonio Pappano, a Conductor of the Old School, Makes His Carnegie Debut 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

New operas by two eminent American composers crossed paths in New York this week. Review: At 90, Carlisle Floyd Scores a Fresh Opera Hit 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Fascism was on the rise as people's economic security grew ever more precarious — hm, relatable — and even in the escapist soap opera of "Downton Abbey," the moneyed Crawley family could feel it coming. "Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

The opera will outline the novel’s plot in three acts. 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' Gets Opera Adaptation 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

These affectionate nods to operas past come from a composer who has not written much for the genre himself. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z

Colin Alec Todd Thomas was a working-class Tory and self-employed builder who discovered a love of opera as an adult and, like many a late convert, his zeal burned brightly. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

The description of the “second symphony” matches the overture of the opera. The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

The opera’s most intense and drawn-out scene is something entirely different: it’s a lie that Wormley tells about being from Boston, and the elaborate story he invents about his past. Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In 2011, the financially troubled opera merged its administrative functions with those of the Kennedy Center. Chicago Symphony Chief to Run Kennedy Center 2013-12-10T18:15:10Z

The opera invites imaginative productions: I saw a darkly compelling staging at the Paris National Opera in 2008. Music Review: Philharmonic and Gerald Finley in ‘Il Prigioniero’ 2013-06-07T20:26:14Z

The film was never made, but Arnold saw its operatic potential and Mendoza used his screenplay to create the opera libretto. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z

Bellini’s 1831 opera “Norma” is rich in themes that resonate in today’s political and social climate. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“I like an opera hall … 1,500 people. Perfect,” says McKenzie who, alas, finds himself playing stadiums. Flight of the Conchords: ‘We're retired sex symbols' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The production sets the opera in the skeleton of an old theater, with wood scaffolding on both sides of the stage. Review: In This ‘Ring’ Cycle, Gods Dwell in an Old Theater 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Probably his best opera, The Passenger, is due at English National Opera next season, where it will be directed by David Pountney. This week's new live music 2011-01-29T00:06:06Z

“Show business has taken over the specificity of the opera. My approach is aiming for something more intimate and not as showy.” A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

“And so did the story. It dawned on me that there was something universal about this opera.” ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The second act's murder scene, in which Tosca kills Scarpia, is one of opera's great moments, but also difficult to pull off. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

Vivaldi, best known for his instrumental music, wrote nearly 50 operas and considered the genre central to his work. Music Review: Garsington Opera’s ‘Olympiade’ by Vivaldi, in England 2012-06-24T22:11:06Z

It's a strange little tale, which shows many of the characteristics of Reimann's next opera, Lear, the work that really put him on the international map seven years later. Reimann: Melusine 2010-08-19T21:30:00Z

Her current project is “Vireo,” an opera crafted to be released in broadcast form, like a television serial. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Here too is the perfect venue for an American opera festival. Musco Center's sound decision pays dividends in hall's debut 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Soap operas — named for the soap companies that advertised on them in the early days — began as radio programs in the 1930s, and moved to television in the ’50s in a 15-minute format. ‘Days of Our Lives,’ NBC Mainstay Since 1965, Moves to Peacock 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The conductor Anne Manson said, “There was one conversation my agent had with one of the opera companies in Britain and they said, ‘We could never put a woman in front of this orchestra.’ Female Conductors Search for Equality at Highest Level 2013-12-20T20:33:48Z

In Russia, it was the most popular opera of its day. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

So yes, “Hamilton,” I’d say, is an opera — but I say that knowing that the term “opera” might be off-putting to the average “Hamilton”-goer. Perspective | Art by heart: ‘Hamilton’ is opera for our time 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Both operas, already given rave reviews from Cardiff and Covent Garden, acquired fresh definition and energy in the Albert Hall. BBC Proms 1 to 7 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

Problems are faced, issues addressed, children educated, hearts melted and tables duly turned, all in the manner of a handsomely mounted daytime soap opera. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-14T23:05:55Z

But the idea caught on big time and sent opera companies around the world scrambling to get their product into cinemas. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z

But during his career, which took him to Paris between the two world wars and, in 1941, to the United States, he was absorbed by opera, including experimental works incorporating film. Review: Leon Botstein Dusts Off a Surreal 1930s Opera 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

In a statement issued through his publisher, Townshend said he hopes to expand the story into an opera and art installation. Pete Townshend novel, ‘The Age of Anxiety,’ out in November 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Whatever decision the studio finally comes to on her future role in the long-running space opera, Leia surely deserves to be immortalised among the stars – in the movies – rather than in Disney stores. Disney's dilemma: digitally resurrect Carrie Fisher or write her out of Star Wars? 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

It is for exploiting this tension between opera’s emotional and intellectual levels that Mr. Herheim — whose work has not yet been seen in America — has become known. Music Review: Stefan Herheim?s ?Rusalka,? at Th??tre Royal de la Monnaie 2012-03-09T23:41:56Z

“Given the huge upheaval and social change that is taking place in America right now, it seemed wholly appropriate that when we come back after missing an entire season we should open with this opera.” Met Opera skips this season, 1st Black composer opens ’21-22 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

“It can feel relaxing to escape and go to a Donizetti opera that’s set in a previous era,” Stone said in a panel discussion at the opera house during rehearsal. Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

While their names — Brownlee, Camarena and Flórez — may be unfamiliar outside the opera world, they represent a new golden age in high male voices and in the singular thrill of their top notes. Critic’s Notebook: Opera Stars and the Revival of Bel Canto 2014-05-04T21:52:06Z

We spoke with him following the November 26 performance of “Anatomy of Immaterial Worlds,” his first “shamanic opera” at London’s ICA. | Matthew Stone 2010-12-01T21:37:00Z

“Tosca” will be its seventh staged opera, not counting nights devoted to lieder and opera scenes. Brooklyn’s Unconventional LoftOpera Takes on Puccini 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The composer – also a poet, himself, as well as the opera’s librettist and conductor – was 25 when he completed the score. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

The film director Anthony Minghella revives this timeless opera by Puccini. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Masked Singer’ and the Super Bowl 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

In my films, I sweat blood to make big plot points and character arcs work, whereas in opera, the story is just a series of headlines. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z

She said it helped that both of their careers were settled when they married in 2010, allowing them to perform in the same opera houses, if not necessarily in the same operas. Villain and heroine: The real-life husband and wife onstage in 'Tales of Hoffmann' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The main city, Ulaanbaatar, has an opera house and a music academy, the State University of Arts and Culture, from which Mr. Enkhbat graduated in 2009. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

Doucet’s production is set in the present, at the home of a man who tunes in to a radio broadcast of the opera, which provides a contextualizing introduction. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Now, more than 30 years on, when the country is still grappling with racial inequality and police violence, a new opera, “We Shall Not Be Moved,” tries to contend with the ghosts of that tragedy. A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Let’s leave the opera presentations for another day. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z

This issue of editions often stirs up competing scholarly and pragmatic imperatives at opera houses. Whose Version of Rossini? Scholar Disagrees With the Met 2011-04-08T19:41:26Z

But the theme of hunger runs through Humperdinck’s opera, and Mr. Jones does everything possible to make clear what want drives desperate families to do. Review: The Met’s Holiday ‘Hansel’ Is Surreal (and Timely) 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The theater maintains a full chorus, solo singers and dancers, a corps de ballet, designers, directors and craftsmen, and a single hardworking orchestra that plays at ballets and operas alike, often performing from hand-copied scores. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z

Along with the loyal fans of the company, long called “the people’s opera,” he was distressed by its recent period of administrative chaos and financial crisis. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

There are also live screenings of stage plays, musicals and opera from Glyndebourne. Cine-files: Harbour Lights, Southampton 2013-05-14T11:47:27Z

But the mixture of showbiz, social comment and soap opera rings manipulative and false. The Nance: Gay Burlesque and Straight Plays 2013-04-17T09:45:36Z

First, staff members at his archive, in Los Angeles, dug up original drawings for around 10 opera productions. David Hockney Goes High-Tech 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

And while its monumentality has delighted generations of balletomanes, opera buffs, music fans and theatergoers, the benefits of having all those theaters and concert halls next to one another are not always clear. At Lincoln Center, Cultural Institutions Team Up 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

“In fact, he was influenced by going to a lot of opera.” How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Scott said after the show that he’d been inspired to create “an intergalactic imaginary synthetic pop band, a rock opera in outer space.” Jeremy Scott conjures up a glamorous space-age pop band 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday night there will be a preliminary presentation of “Das Rheingold,” the first of the cycle’s four component operas. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

The Yankees, ever traditionalists, still use the opera star Robert Merrill’s venerable recording for many games. O Say, Can You Sing at the Ballpark? It’s a Tough Song 2013-07-04T00:02:52Z

He added in a conversation that part of his job at the opera, where he is in charge of about 300 people, involves successfully interacting with a variety of personalities. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

O'Hara: It's generalizing but seemed more like their idea of Moira was more like the soap opera character that she played, like a snooty kind of rich lady thing. Q&A: Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara on comedy, Canada, 'Creek' 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Playwright Gay's groundbreaking musical comedy lampooned the early 18th-century opera craze in London, and the political and social mores of that vivid era. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

In Gray's classical, handsomely photographed approach, inspired by Puccini's "Suor Angelica" opera, critics have either gone with its intimate story of American passage, or they haven't. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z

Scrubbing away the novel’s rich, woodsy atmosphere, the opera isn’t left with much. Review: ‘Cold Mountain,’ at Santa Fe Opera, Recounts a Separated Lover’s Arduous Journey 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

This would seem a clear expression of insecurity from a team of opera neophytes. Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z

He attended the University of Miami and studied classical music and opera until, he said, a drama coach heard his basso voice and suggested he try acting. Joseph Mascolo, ‘Days of Our Lives’ Villain, Dies at 87 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

No one from the opera world is represented. Perspective | The Kennedy Center Honors abandons the arts for pop culture 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

If you want to find death in it all its most unpleasant forms, opera is the only game in town. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z

Intermittent performances of Schreker’s works, primarily in Germany and Austria, have made his name known to opera goers. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

As opera became more marginal and culturally endangered, the Zombie Symbol took on an uglier edge. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The ambitious opera festival is being held there for the fourth time in five years. Israel Opera Festival's La Traviata rocks at Masada 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Somewhere in the midst of politics and the virus was opera. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

She was thus well placed to understand the roots of 19th-century Russian music, especially opera, in which she began to specialise as a teacher. No?lle Mann obituary 2010-07-13T17:21:00Z

“No company manages the delicate balance of contemporary opera — simultaneously maintaining high musical standards, attracting the finest singers and experimenting dramatically — better than this one,” Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times in 2015. An Opera Powerhouse, Munich, Picks Its Next Leaders 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Five years ago, less than 25 percent of the opera’s single-ticket-buying audience was younger than 50, but that number is now 50 percent. Seattle classical-music, opera groups shake off dust to capture new audiences 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Previn said he recently composed several string pieces for Mutter and is eyeing a possible one-act opera that he would write for Fleming in collaboration with playwright Tom Stoppard. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

She was unavailable for interview, a spokeswoman for the London opera company said. Beleaguered English National Opera Announces New Artistic Director 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“One day I said, ‘Golly, there’s an opera here,’” he recalled. At a Moment of Racial Tumult, the Little Rock Nine Inspire an Opera 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Since the late 1970s, Chinese music has bloomed from a monochromatic array of traditional operas and communist anthems into a soundscape as diverse as the country's 1.3 billion people. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z

We pass a woman in a sun hat on the side of a steep hill singing opera to herself. A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

In June, Alan Gilbert again brought staged opera to the New York Philharmonic’s season, conducting a glowing, textured account of Janacek’s “Cunning Little Vixen,” in a disarming production by the director Doug Fitch. Looking Back at ?Anna Nicole,? ?Griselda? and ?Don Giovanni? 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z

It was a striking success, mingling opera arias and duets, spirituals and popular song, and Brownlee was feeling expansive on the eve of the final show. A tenor looks beyond opera and explores being a black man in America 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The obvious answer is that opera is an art form that combines many disciplines: visual arts, acting, singing, directing, lighting and design. Opera reviews: why does no one write about the music? 2011-03-01T12:56:43Z

“Kiss,” directed by Bart DeLorenzo, revolves around the performance of a Syrian soap opera that plays like the Middle Eastern equivalent of a telenovela. 'Kiss' at the Odyssey: A rising Chilean playwright explores what gets lost in translation 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

But what former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer Will Tuckett takes from the great man's satire is more like choreographed opera: a rude, ebullient and touching fusion of movement, text and song. Pleasure's Progress 2010-06-22T21:20:00Z

In recent years, Mr. Lappen said, he had completed two operas based on works by Tolstoy, and had been working on another, inspired by James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” at his death. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Renée, how did you find it going from that heightened opera talk, projecting and enunciating, to trying to be more natural and funny on Broadway? An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

So, I have written that in America, opera should be performed in English as much as possible, despite that Italian has pretty vowels. Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Aucoin said that he would jump at the opportunity to conduct operas as varied as Alban Berg's "Lulu," Beethoven's "Fidelio" and the works of Thomas Ades. Composer-conductor Matthew Aucoin is tapped to join L.A. Opera as an artist in residence 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It added that earlier productions of the opera, in London, New York, St. Louis and California were performed without any problems. Met Opera cancels live transmission due to anti-Semitism concerns 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The increased presence of Baroque operas on the international scene in the past few decades has benefited Mr. Costanzo and his peers; countertenors are now actively sought by major opera companies worldwide. Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Space opera is also, ironically, a great place to showcase the big, strange things that are going on in real-world science. Sub-genres battle for Arthur C Clarke SF award 2010-03-31T11:08:00Z

Mr. Levine never seemed quite as comfortable with symphonic repertory as with opera. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

Her senior year, she landed a part on the soap opera “As the World Turns.” Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

It is striking to encounter the two late Monteverdi operas in juxtaposition, as much for their differences as for their similarities. Review: Boston Early Music Festival Makes Monteverdi Its Main Attraction 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The skills that I received shaped my instrument in a way where I have the technique, but I still have the freedom vocally that I probably wouldn’t have had if I went straight opera.” Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Macri pressed on, determined to reopen the Colón for opera even at the expense of other cultural institutions. An Operatic Drama Performed Mostly Offstage 2010-06-16T14:30:00Z

“I was part of a big generation that were brought from the theater to opera, for me kicking and screaming,” said Ms. Warner, 63. A British Opera, Still Gathering Fans, Arrives in Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Rehearsals vary, depending on the operas on stage for the period. Pit vs. Stage: Longer Nights and More Rubato 2010-07-13T20:41:00Z

He has now had an opportunity to revise his production the way he might during a musical’s preview performances, a luxury almost never afforded to opera. The Met Opera Spirits ‘Rigoletto’ to ‘Babylon Berlin’ 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

One can only hope it fosters more real appetite for new opera. Opera as lively art — or not-so-lively 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Amada’s painting and Mozart’s opera become part of a tangled net of references and symbols. In Haruki Murakami’s New Novel, a Painter’s Inspiration Is Supernatural 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

I'd never seen an opera before: too elitist, I thought, too old fashioned. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z

After quitting school to act, she landed her first big role on the soap opera “General Hospital,” and her film career was sparked by what could be described as Brat Pack serendipity. Sabattical Done, Demi Moore Returns 2010-04-16T23:12:00Z

He built the school’s music program from scratch, seeking out friends like Shapero and Bernstein, whose opera “Trouble in Tahiti” had its premiere at one of Brandeis’s renowned arts festivals. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The sudden appearance of such a large number of highbrow operas owes a good deal to the new media-friendly musicians’ contract negotiated five years ago during Mr. Gelb’s transition into the general directorship. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

He also would not discuss the ramifications of the move, including whether the opera would be breaking its lease. NYC Opera to leave Lincoln Center, cut staff 2011-05-21T00:11:08Z

The Immigrant becomes a stifling opera of unhappiness, at an oppressive andante tempo, trudging onwards through its own heavy weather. Cannes 2013: The Immigrant 2013-05-24T11:28:37Z

A highlight of several recent Carnegie seasons has been the English Concert’s ongoing progress through operas and oratorios by Handel. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

But, she added, “many of the people who make up our audience today are not ‘opera buffs’, and nor should they be.” English National Opera C.E.O. to Step Down 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

Elements foreshadowed Adams’s operas “Nixon in China” and “The Death of Klinghoffer.” A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

The result is a festival — running Friday through Jan. 16 — that takes full advantage of the temporal and spatial flexibility of the virtual, while plotting new ways for viewers to experience opera in person. Perspective | Opera is taking entirely new forms. Its survival may depend on it. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Ms. Thomas said that while she, an opera singer, would normally rest her voice on a night off, she encouraged Mr. Fisher to perform on his. The Showboat Must Go On! Performers on Nights Off 2010-07-04T22:01:00Z

Crime is an enduring fascination for humans,” said Mr. Badinter, who is working on an opera based on the novel “Crime and Punishment.” Paris Gawks Again at the Guillotine 2010-05-07T11:44:00Z

He loads, and finally overloads, the opera with Mahlerian crashes and overwrought symbolism. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

I teach too many crummy kids who think they’ve got to be opera singers. Helen Boatwright, Celebrated Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-12-05T07:30:00Z

It usually requires a leap of faith for an opera company to present a new piece. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z

To begin with, he happens to be the composer of what may be the strangest opera of our time. '60s organist Anthony Newman continues to perplex and astound 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Movies & TV shows will be like the opera and the novel,” he said. Netflix's CEO thinks entertainment's future could be a pill 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The opera plunges into extensive flashbacks to life in the Nazi camp that contrast, with increasing savagery, with the more lighthearted atmosphere on the ship. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Donors to the Met, upon whom the New York opera house relies heavily for its funding, also came under pressure. Klinghoffer opera 'must be performed' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The worlds of opera and sacred music collided in the best possible way Saturday afternoon at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall during the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s season finale. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

There will be a full-scale environmentally friendly eco-house sponsored by Prince Charles, and a more modest show house modeled on the row houses made famous by the long-running soap opera “Coronation Street.” In Transit: At London Show, All About the Home 2011-03-10T11:00:29Z

The oldest piece on this release is four choral excerpts from Rautavaara’s last opera, “Rasputin.” CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

But how many police commissioners send their law enforcement officials to the opera house for sensitivity training? ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

New productions usually take months to implement at top opera companies. La Traviata in Vienna shines but staging weak 2011-10-10T13:33:08Z

It’s a triumphant return to the opera house where Ms. Goerke trained as an insecure young artist in the 1990s. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

For the other, “Strange Fruit,” she was joined by an opera singer acting as a second voice and commentator, whose cries turned feral as this song about a lynching gathered force. Vivian Reed Turns Up the Intensity at Below 54 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

He learned that she was 17 when she left Russia for the United States in 2005 to follow her dream of becoming an opera singer. A Pessimist and an Optimist, Building a Life in Sync 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Something will emerge from this moment of crisis for opera. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

To prepare for performances, he attended dress rehearsals, immersed himself in study of the opera and interviewed other members of the Met operation. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wigglesworth wrote in the Guardian last month that the opera’s “identity as a team defines its past and will be its greatest asset in protecting its future.” English National Opera's Music Director Resigns 1463-12-16T05:00:00Z

But other than the devilish rats gnawing the woodwork, this is straightforward opera with period dress costumes by Suttirat Anne Larlarb. Plácido Domingo's sound and fury in L.A. Opera's 'Macbeth' 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater entertained hundreds of Black New Yorkers with both classic and original work, alongside operas and ballets. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Complaining to local media about working under Meyer, de Billy said he left the opera at least for the duration of the director's tenure. Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Sheila Rao, 55, a certified public accountant and serious opera fan, said that if the expenses could be controlled, ticket prices could be made more affordable. Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

“Once the commission contracts are complete,” Mr. Potter said, “we will be making presentations to leading American opera houses with an ongoing interest in new works.” An Opera About Little Rock Integration, With Libretto by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

Each of the three acts in its new production of “Die Walküre,” the second opera in Wagner’s tetralogy, which opens on Sunday, has a highly different staging, each devised by a different creative team. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

The opera, which debuted in 1984, tells the story of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, also known as Amenhotep IV, who introduced widespread religious changes to his dominion. L.A. Opera to present 'Macbeth,' 'Akhnaten' and Leonard Bernstein tribute in 2016-17 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Her choice of a new teacher was unconventional: the admired soprano Diana Soviero, best known for singing Italian and French opera — not the German repertory Ms. Goerke wanted to learn. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He also led an opera competition, Operalia, and having Domingo’s support within the opera world was an asset for young singers struggling to build a career. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The result, he assured his audience, is a “classic,” worthy of world-class opera houses such as London’s Covent Garden, Vienna’s State Opera House and now, the Châtelet. Theater: Th??tre Du Ch?telet Aims to Bring Broadway to Paris 2011-04-14T14:00:04Z

Mr. Castellucci simply chooses not to represent aspects of “Parsifal” often found troublesome, and the opera is no worse off for it. Opera Review: Wagner, Sleek but Deep 2011-02-08T12:30:06Z

Mr. Okovacs, a trained singer with a deep knowledge of opera and a showman’s knack for audience development initiatives, worked as a television executive before he became general director of the State Opera in 2011. Hungary Turned Far Right. That’s Meant Millions for Its Opera. 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z