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A Celebration of Opera Affirms Its Relevance

by John Sherer November 4, 2019November 5, 2019

From a monologue on death to a story about a police shootout, Opera Philadelphia’s productions showed us the many things opera can be.

The Operatic Impulses of Maurice Sendak

by Eric Vilas-Boas September 23, 2019

The famed children’s book author and artist considered the theater his “second career.” An evening talk and live performance will explore his font of creativity.

A Political Opera With Big Ambitions Feels Off-Key

by Gabriel Grossman September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

Despite a gorgeous, impressively conducted score, David Lang’s prisoner of the state felt overstuffed, unsatisfying, and contradictory.

Everyone Falls for Everyone in This Operatic Romp Based on Shakespeare

by John Sherer February 15, 2019

Rather than sticking to a literalistic depiction of the woods of Fairyland, Robert Carsen sets his adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a more symbolic land of beds.

Mini-Operas Inspired by Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party”

by Benjamin Sutton May 22, 2018

The canonical work of feminist art served as inspiration for 11 mini-operas written, composed, developed, and designed by NYU students.

The Somber Fate of a Manuscript Illuminator

by John Sherer and Andrew Summers February 16, 2018February 16, 2018

In Written on Skin, currently playing at Opera Philadelphia, an illuminated manuscript artist gets involved with his patron’s wife.

A Surrealist Satire by Luis Buñuel Becomes a Grim Opera

by John Sherer November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

The Metropolitan Opera’s lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel’s 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.

A New Opera Tells the Story of a Paleoart Pioneer Through His Granddaughter’s Eyes

by Allison Meier October 6, 2017October 5, 2017

On Site Opera’s Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt in the dinosaur hall of the American Museum of Natural History explores the paleoart of Charles Knight.

An Opera Revisits the Grisly Public Dissections of the 18th Century

by Allison Meier January 11, 2017January 11, 2017

An anatomical theater and its dissected murderess are the subjects of a bloody opera on the physical nature of evil.

A Scintillating Opera Is the Met’s First by a Female Composer in 113 Years

by John Sherer and Andrew Summers December 16, 2016December 16, 2016

L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.

In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience

by John Sherer and Andrew Summers October 31, 2016

Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.

An Operatic Lament for the Lonely Artist

by Allison Meier September 13, 2016September 13, 2016

“When we meet the very best, we have to give up,” baritone Rod Gilfry intoned in The Loser, composer David Lang’s one-act opera that debuted last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

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