Performance
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.
Performance
Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.
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"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).
Art
As an opera where a colossal snake and enchanted instrument play a pivotal role, perhaps it's no surprise Mozart's The Magic Flute inspired some fantastic set and costume designs since its debut in 1791.
Performance
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.
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The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Performance
TORONTO — What do you get when you pair the work of a living composer with that of one from the 17th century?
Art
“White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it,” Jenny Zhang, the poet and Rookie magazine contributor, wrote in an article for BuzzFeed about the erasure of Asian American narratives in Western culture.
Art
Inevitably, the history of Black American opera chronicles not just perseverance and accomplishment, but also racism and exclusion.
Art
A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world's largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human.
Performance
The L train was out of order and the night was freezing, but that didn't stop a crowd from packing into a Bushwick warehouse earlier this month for the last weekend of Puccini's La Bohème, staged by the Brooklyn-based LoftOpera.
Performance
LOS ANGELES — A train station is an apt location to tell stories of journeys to lands unknown, particularly when the storytelling method is as unconventional and frontier-pushing as the one deployed in Invisible Cities.