The New York Times critic W. J. Henderson, back in 1897, punningly dubbed The Metropolitan...
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The New York Times critic W. J. Henderson, back in 1897, punningly dubbed The Metropolitan...
“I’m Old Fashioned”—that lilting Jerome Kern standard popped unbidden into my head as Florencia en...
Dead Man Walking, the opera, has enjoyed a remarkable life: it’s been around for twenty-three...
What is it about Schubert song cycles that attracts the Regie gang? In recent years Christof Loy,...
Few operas can have enjoyed a splashier premiere than Francesca Caccini’s Alcina. In the Florence...
“Wort oder Ton?”: which has the upper hand, the words or the music? That centuries-old debate, as...
How often does an opera audience seem united by one big, heady communal high? That was the feeling...
There’s a fistful of good reasons for seeing Champion. There’s the story, a real and strong one:...
In his not-quite-fourteen years at The Metropolitan Opera, that compact bundle of...
Since its unveiling at London’s Royal Opera in 2012, Robert Carsen’s temporal transplant of...